Delete Items from Recoverable item folder

Question

I have 99.5 gb data in Discovery hold folder under Recoverable Item. How to make this empty. I have make the single item recovery false and retain deleted item to 0 days. There is no litigation hold and retention hold in the mailbox or any other hold in the mailbox. How to fix this issue and make the data clear from discovery hold folder. Performing content search/compliance search and perform the hard delete via PowerShell command will delete 10 items per command so that is not going to help. What is the other option to fix this.

Answer 1

Hi, @Sanjay Bhakuni - admin

Based on your description, I understand that you want to delete a large amount of data in the DiscoveryHolds folder.

Based on the steps you've already taken, you can also try the following suggestions:

1.Use the Search-Mailbox cmdlet:

You can use this cmdlet to search for and delete items in the DiscoveryHolds folder. Compared to the Remove-ComplianceSearchAction cmdlet, this method allows you to delete more items at once.

Make sure that you've correctly applied and updated any retention policies that might affect retention and deletion. Double-check that Single Recovery is turned off and that the retention period is correctly set to 0 days.

You can refer to similar questions Discovery Hold - Microsoft Q&A

More information can be found Delete items in the Recoverable Items folder | Microsoft Learn

2.Manually delete messages from recoverable items

3.Automated scripts for bulk deletion

Since search/compliance search can only delete 10 items at a time, you can save time by writing custom PowerShell scripts to automate multiple deletion cycles.

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