Restoring Google Drive Folders Instead of Individual Files

[scottalanmiller]

Customer accidentally deleted some folders in Google Drive which contained thousands of files. We can see the files and can restore one by one. Does anyone know if or how you can select the entire previous folder and restore it with all of the contents at once to save time?

[JaredBusch]

@scottalanmiller said in Restoring Google Drive Folders Instead of Individual Files:

Customer accidentally deleted some folders in Google Drive which contained thousands of files. We can see the files and can restore one by one. Does anyone know if or how you can select the entire previous folder and restore it with all of the contents at once to save time?

Download from online trash?

[black3dynamite]

If the person only deleted the folder, go to the trash bin and restore the folder. That will restore everything else that was in that folder.

[dbeato]

You can try restoring the folder from trash, that is what it allows me to do it here.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/1716222?hl=en&visit_id=636857122189648895-909067187&rd=1

Otherwise download everything and let it sync with Google Drive from a desktop.

[Emad R]

@scottalanmiller

maybe linking to rclone can help. I never tried it but the idea is to link it to the account and try to download the trash contents:

https://rclone.org/drive/
https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/1524

[CCWTech]

Unfortunately what they did ended up orphaning the files.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6008339?hl=en

[scottalanmiller]

@CCWTech said in Restoring Google Drive Folders Instead of Individual Files:

Unfortunately what they did ended up orphaning the files.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6008339?hl=en

Ouch