Shared Drives: Trash Deleted After 30 Days To prevent collaborators from losing access, consider making someone else owner of the document before it is permanently deleted.
Keep in mind that if you've shared a document and then moved it to the trash, those you've shared it with will have access until it is permanently deleted after 30 days. In both cases, items inTrash are automatically deleted after 30 days ( learn more about My Drive Trash). You can restore the file from My Drive's Trash using Google Drive on the web only within those 30 days.
Similarly, if you've downloaded Google Drive for PC/Mac, you can delete an item you own by moving it to your computer's trash (which will also move the item to Trash in Drive on the web). If you delete a file you own in Google Drive on the web, it moves to the Trash (which you can access by clicking on More in the list on the left). My Drive: Trash Now Deleted After 30 days Starting October 13, 2020, Files in the My Drive and Shared Drives Trash are permanetly deleted after 30 days (before then, My Drive trash wasn't deleted automatically).
