
Search in Office365įrankly, chances are slim that you will find it here but you can try! If it is not in OneDrive and not in SharePoint (including Teams) it may be in Outlook or Yammer but would you not remember if you have done that? But, just to be on the safe side, give it a try.įound it? Congratulations! Now move it back to where it belongs! No luck? It has probably been deleted, renamed or had its permissions changed (with or without moving). Unless you want to know WHEN you did this, there’s no need to confirm with step 7 as you are the only one who could have done this. Results from OneDrive are also shown in SharePoint search, so if you have accidentally moved the document to OneDrive, you will find it there as well. You see there is also a result from OneDrive. In this case you get results from all of SharePoint, so it will be necessary to narrow down the results by using the Files tab and the Filters. Note down the path and confirm it is the correct document. (Of course, using the Files tab and the Filters should help a little). Search from the SharePoint landing pageįound it? Well you are lucky! Unless your document has a very unique name, it will be hard to find between all the other documents in your organization. Confirm with step 7 if you feel the need.Īfter this, you can do what is most easy for you. The document has been moved to another library. And…this view will show you the path of the document!įound it? Note down the path and navigate to it to confirm this is the correct document. If you get too many results, you may want to use the Files tab and/or the Filters to narrow down. So there is another result if you search in the site. You do not get any more results in this case, nor the exact location of your documents, but this view allows you to expand search and that will give you more info.
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You can easily do this by clicking “Expand search to all items in this site” on the bottom of the Search results page from step 1. You can click to open them from there or click “Show more results” Take step 2 to find the location if you do not see it straight away and/or confirm with step 7 to see what exactly has happened if you are curious. It has most likely been moved from one folder to another, or metadata has changed so it appears in a different view. Search in the Document Library where it used to liveįound it? Open it to see whether this is the document you are looking for.
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But please, feel free to disagree! It also depends…:) 1. My suggestion would be to first try and find the document in the original library. Sadly you can only Sort, and not Search, in the Recycle bin. It may appear to be fastest if you go to the Recycle Bin first, but that may be quite a chore if your site is active, your document has been deleted some time ago and/or document name, the author or the suspected deleter starts with M or N. Just like my post about the disappeared web parts and lost documents on OneDrive, I have thought about the best possible order to use the available tools.
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On the plus side, there is a Site Owner and a SharePoint admin who may be able to help you out! What could have happened?


Over time, we have come up with a few steps to investigate and (often) find them. We frequently get calls from colleagues whose documents have “disappeared” from their SharePoint site.
