Recycle Bin

The Recycle Bin can be accessed from the Home tab by clicking on the link in the sidebar as shown in the following screenshot:

The Recycle Bin is where deleted data is stored. It can be accessed for 15 days, after which the data becomes permanently deleted and is no longer recoverable.

Clicking on Recycle Bin allows you to view both your deleted items and your organization's deleted items, as shown in the following screenshot:

You can use the Empty your recycle bin button to permanently remove deleted items prior to the 15-day expiration.

Note

Records in the Recycle Bin do not count against your organizations storage limits.

To calculate the number of records that your Recycle Bin can store, Salesforce uses the following formula: 25 multiplied by the number of Megabytes (MB) in your storage.

For example, if your organization has 1 GB, which equates to 1000 MB (a 1000 MB storage unit is used here and not 1028 MB), your limit is 25 multiplied by 1000 MB, which equals 25,000 records...