---
id: delta-drive.how-do-i-restore-something-from-delta-drive-trash
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/delta-drive/how-do-i-restore-something-from-delta-drive-trash
category: "Delta Drive, Delta Trust & My Drive"
subcategory: "Using Delta Drive"
question: "How do I restore something from Delta Drive's trash?"
alt_questions:
  - "Undelete in Delta Drive"
  - "Put back Delta Drive"
  - "Recover deleted file Delta Drive"
  - "Bring back a deleted folder in Delta Drive"
  - "Will putting a file back overwrite the one that's there now?"
short_answer: "Open Trash, right-click the item and choose Put back. It returns to its folder and never overwrites anything — a same-named item comes back as name (2), and a missing folder is made again."
tags: ["trash", "restore", "delta drive"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/delta-drive/does-the-delta-drive-trash-empty-itself", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/delta-drive/what-happens-if-someone-i-shared-with-deletes-a-file"]
applies_to: "all"
wiki: https://storagestudio.us/wiki/the-delta-drive-trash
last_reviewed: 2026-10-29
---

# How do I restore something from Delta Drive's trash?

Open **Trash** in the Delta Drive sidebar, right-click the item and choose **Put back**. It returns to the folder it came from, with its notes, comments, colours and marks. It never overwrites anything: if something with the same name is already there, it comes back as "name (2)", and if its folder has gone, the folder is made again.

**Put back to…** lets you choose another folder, and **Open a read-only copy** lets you look first. The Trash shows where each item came from, when it was deleted and by whom — a Mac, the web, someone you shared with, or a synced folder.

See [what guests can delete](https://storagestudio.us/faq/delta-drive/what-happens-if-someone-i-shared-with-deletes-a-file).