No more option to delete all files from my onedrive recycle bin

Anonymous
2024-04-21T16:13:14+00:00

I can't empty anymore my onedrive recycle bin at once, when i select all the files in the onedrive recycle bin the option "delete" is no more presented, only the option "restore" is.

If I empty it thru the "manage storage" page and the "empty recycle bin" hyperlink, files are still there even hours later.

The only option is select a single file at a time and use the 3 dots menu where the option "delete" is presented. But as this is file by file, this is of course completely unefficient and therefor unacceptable.

I just find out that i can select maximum 50 files to delete them all at once. Starting from 51, the option disappears... Unbelievable?!

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-25T13:04:54+00:00

    While I'm certain Microsoft doesn't care about my opinion, I'd still like it voiced here. As a long time IT professional, MS' lack of attention to such a basic need/request by so many indicates that MS isn't listening to its customers. The simplicity of including a mechanism to empty the recycle bin seems like a junior first year programmer could spend 30 minutes fixing that code (I'm sure that comment will be disputed). Instead the bizarre work arounds and methodologies that have to be followed (use your iPhone?, select 1 delete it and the hurry to select fifty more before the button disappears? go to buy more storage - isn't that why I'm trying to empty the recycle bin? ... etc etc...) has this one un-influential customer seriously reconsidering the whole MS subscription choice. I realize in 30 days it will be purged (according to MS and the myriad of emails I get when I delete multiple old files....), but as demonstrated by a lot of customers, they can't/don't want to wait and need the recycle bin emptied now.... At the moment, when I want to empty my Trash/Recycle bin on Google Drive (btw, free 15GB per account) works perfectly without question regardless if I'm on my phone, Windows, Linux or macOS PC. The same thing can be said about iCloud, iDrive, Dropbox and a myriad of other cloud storage solutions. Such a simple and basic functionality not working (and worse, not being addressed by the vendor...) demonstrates Microsoft's commitment to the customer post the sale of the subscription.

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  2. Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points
    2024-04-23T03:14:03+00:00

    Right-click the checked files and see if you can delete them.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-08-29T23:04:23+00:00

    Man, from my experience when these "experts" star their reply with: Hi my name is, Thank you for reaching out, I am here to help" and all that **** their reply won't be that helpful at all. I don't get why they go trough all that blsht. I don't care what your name is, I can see it next to you post. Just say what you have to say. ffs

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-20T01:24:30+00:00

    totally agree!

    It is not there. And so now my recycle bin is just taking up storage space. It is by design on their part. They just think we are idiots.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-02T18:28:05+00:00

    There is one place where this option is still available, go to: https://onedrive.live.com/?v=managestorage

    and there is global delete

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