Sharepoint Foundation 2013 Recycle bin cannot see deleted item

Question

The title is similar to other problems with Recycle bin but I'm not found the answer to them. Correctly if I'm wrong.

I'm the admin on our Sharepoint (Foundation 2013), (new at all of the SharePoint) and before two days one user accidentally deleted one document from the document library. I was looking in Recycle bin under Site collection, but it wasn't there. I also looked in second stage Recycle bin (in Central Administration), but also wasn't there.

Strange to me is that I don't see the link to Recycle bin under Setting of web place under Administration of web place, why isn't Recycle Bin there and how can I add it here ?

Sorry because my picture is on Croatian language, but that's our SharePoint, on Croatian.

Thank you

Answer 1

The possible reasons for that:

• You didn't look at the correct site, Recycle Bin in SharePoint is site-specific, a document deleted from http://myportal/mainsites/site1 will not appear in the top-level site’s http://myportal/mainsite/ Recycle Bin.

• Recycle Bin is not only site-specific, it is also specific for each user. Thus the Recycle Bin contents you see is limited to documents, items, lists and libraries that you’ve deleted, content deleted by other users does not show up here as I think.

• Recycle Bin does not keep deleted items forever. The default setting in SharePoint is to keep content in Recycle Bin for 30 days

You should also make sure that the recycle bin setting has been set correctly by following :

Open Central Administration > Application Management > Manage web application > Select your web application > from the above ribbon select > general settings > check the setting of recycle bin status > make sure it's On.

Also, check others settings beside Recycle Bin.

Answer 2

You should check the settings in Central Administration to see if the recycle bin is actually activated or not.