Starting October 13, 2020, Google is making a change to Google Drive (My Drive) so that trash behaves more consistently with the rest of Google Workspace services with regards to automatic deletion (e.g. Gmail, Calendar, and Google Drive - Shared drive). This means that any file that is put into Google Drive’s ‘My Drive’ trash will be automatically deleted after 30 days.
A few things to note:
- Starting October 13, 2020 any files already in a user’s trash will remain there for 30 days. After the 30-day-period files that have been in the trash for longer than 30 days will begin to be automatically deleted.
- Files in shared drives trash are already automatically deleted after 30 days.
- These changes affect items that are trashed from any device and any platform.