The Recycle Bin

Item-level recovery has been a big concern for many users of WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003. With the new Recycle Bin in WSS 3.0, users can now easily recover deleted documents without having to send a request to the SharePoint administrator to have an entire site restored (as has been the case). When a document is deleted, it is sent to your Recycle Bin, as shown in Figure 3-54, similar to how a file is deleted in Windows Vista or Windows XP.

This is a site’s Recycle Bin.

Figure 3-54. This is a site’s Recycle Bin.

Users can periodically clean out their Recycle Bins, which will then send the file to the site collection Recycle Bin, where SharePoint sites’ collection administrators ...

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