Restore Deleted Items from the Recycle Bin

When you delete something in TestOwl, it isn't gone straight away. It moves to the Recycle Bin, where you can restore it for 15 days before it is permanently removed.

Open Recycle Bin from the sidebar to see everything that has been deleted from your project.

What ends up in the Recycle Bin

Item	Notes
Test Suite	Deleting a suite also moves the Test Cases inside it.
Test	An individual Test Case.
Flow	A reusable Flow.
Environment	Variables and Secrets that were scoped only to that environment go with it.
Variable	A Variable.
Secret	A Secret.
Tag	A Tag.

Everything deleted from the Test Suites, Tests, Flows, Environments, Data Config, and Manage Tags pages lands here. Other items — such as schedules, masking rules, and team members — are removed permanently when you delete them, after a confirmation.

Finding items

The Recycle Bin table shows each item's Type, Name, when it was Deleted, and how many days are left before it Expires.

Use the toolbar to:

Search by name.
Filter by Type (one or more).
Filter by a date range for when items were deleted.
Refresh the list, or Reset the filters.

Some rows show extra context under the name — for example, the suite a test belonged to. Test Suites that were replaced during an import show Replaced followed by the date.

Restoring items

Click the Restore button on a row to bring the item back exactly where it was. To restore several items at once, tick their checkboxes and click Restore Selected.

Things to know when restoring:

Suites bring their tests back. Restoring a Test Suite restores the Test Cases that were deleted along with it. A test you deleted separately, before the suite, stays in the Recycle Bin and must be restored on its own.
Restore the parent first. A test whose suite is still in the Recycle Bin can't be restored until the suite is.
Environments bring their scoped data back. Restoring an Environment restores the Variables and Secrets that were deleted with it.
Schedules resume. If a schedule was paused because its target was deleted, restoring the target lets the schedule resume automatically.
Plan limits still apply. If restoring would push you over a limit on your plan (for example the number of Flows or Environments), the restore is blocked until you free up space or upgrade.

Deleting forever

To remove an item immediately instead of waiting for it to expire, click Permanently delete on its row and confirm. For several items, select them and click Force Delete. This can't be undone.

Items that reach the end of their 15 days are removed automatically.

Permanent deletion can't be undone

Once an item is permanently deleted — by you or after it expires — it can't be recovered, and any Flow or Variable references to it are lost.

Who can restore and delete

Restoring and permanently deleting follow the same permissions as the feature the item belongs to:

Action	Roles
Restore	Editor, Admin, and Owner.
Delete forever	Admin and Owner.

Viewers can see the Recycle Bin but can't change anything. Buttons you don't have permission for are disabled with an Insufficient permissions tooltip. See Project Roles for the complete permission list.

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