# Trash and restore

> A thirty-day recovery window, what a delete takes with it, and what permanent deletion removes for good.

Deleted items go to **Dashboard → Trash** rather than disappearing. Blueprints,
portfolios and Vellum saves all land there.

## The thirty-day window

Trash lists everything deleted in the last **30 days** that you can restore:
your own rows, plus team and organisation rows where you hold the role that
would let you restore them.

Items older than thirty days are listed separately, below, as a heads-up.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Treat thirty days as the guarantee and nothing beyond it. Older rows are
> still recoverable today only because nothing purges them on a schedule yet.

## Restoring

Restoring puts an item back where it was. If its portfolio has since been
deleted, it returns to **Main**.

## What a delete takes with it

| Deleting | Also removes |
| --- | --- |
| A blueprint | Its strata, files and version history |
| A portfolio | **Nothing.** Its contents move up rather than being destroyed |
| A folium page | The redirects pointing at it |

A folder delete must never be a content delete, which is why a portfolio is the
exception.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Deleting a page removes the redirects that pointed at it. Anything still
> linking to the old URL starts returning 404 rather than following a redirect
> to nothing. The `redirect-dangling` rule in
> [diagnostics](/foliums/blueprintr-user-guide/foliums/diagnostics) catches
> this.

## Permanent removal

**Permanently delete** on a row, or emptying trash, is exactly that. It is not
covered by version history and there is no second bucket behind it.