Is it possible to search the Recycle Bins?

Question

Is it possible to force a search crawler to crawl through the recycle bin(s) on a SharePoint 2010 system?

I'd like to allow my users to delete files/folders in document libraries but if someone accidentally removes a file that they shouldn't it would make everyone's life a lot easier if items in the recycle bin(s) could be included in normal search results.

Answer 1

Don't know if there is an OOTB solution for this. I couldn't find one. I was able to find something interesting though. you can search Recycle bin using PowerShell

example : (Get-SPSite "http://SERVERNAME:PORT/").RecycleBin | ?{$_.Title -match "DeletedFile"}

Source

Now you can use c# and PowerShell together and write a custom search solution.

Answer 2

As Shoban stated. Powershell is your best bet.

(Get-SPSite "https://SITECOLLECTION/").RecycleBin | ?{$_.Web -match "Sub Site"}

or

(Get-SPSite "https://SITECOLLECTION/").RecycleBin | ?{($_.DeletedDate -gt "5/13/2019") -and ($_.DeletedDate -lt "5/15/2019")}

You should be able to filter by any of the following.

Web           
ID              
ItemState       
ItemType        
Title           
DirName         
LeafName        
Author         
AuthorId        
AuthorName      
AuthorEmail     
DeletedBy       
DeletedById     
DeletedByName   
DeletedByEmail  
DeletedDate     
Size            
ProgId          
ImageUrl