driveItem: restore

2025-07-05

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Restore a driveItem that has been deleted and is currently in the recycle bin.

Important

This functionality is currently only available for OneDrive Personal.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Files.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Application	Files.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

Note

SharePoint Embedded requires the FileStorageContainer.Selected permission to access the content of the container. This permission is different from the ones mentioned previously. In addition to Microsoft Graph permissions, your app must have the necessary container type permissions to call this API. For more information, see SharePoint Embedded authentication and authorization.

HTTP request

POST /me/drive/items/{item-id}/restore

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
parentReference	ItemReference	Optional. Reference to the parent item the deleted item will be restored to.
name	String	Optional. The new name for the restored item. If this isn't provided, the same name will be used as the original.

Response

If successful, this method returns 200 OK response code and the restored driveItem object in the response body.

Examples

The following example shows how to call this API.

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/drive/items/{item-id}/restore
Content-type: application/json

{
  "parentReference": {
    "id": "String",
  },
  "name": "String"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Drives.Item.Items.Item.Restore;
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new RestorePostRequestBody
{
	ParentReference = new ItemReference
	{
		Id = "String",
	},
	Name = "String",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Drives["{drive-id}"].Items["{driveItem-id}"].Restore.PostAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphdrives "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/drives"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphdrives.NewRestorePostRequestBody()
parentReference := graphmodels.NewItemReference()
id := "String"
parentReference.SetId(&id) 
requestBody.SetParentReference(parentReference)
name := "String"
requestBody.SetName(&name) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
restore, err := graphClient.Drives().ByDriveId("drive-id").Items().ByDriveItemId("driveItem-id").Restore().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.beta.drives.item.items.item.restore.RestorePostRequestBody restorePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.drives.item.items.item.restore.RestorePostRequestBody();
ItemReference parentReference = new ItemReference();
parentReference.setId("String");
restorePostRequestBody.setParentReference(parentReference);
restorePostRequestBody.setName("String");
var result = graphClient.drives().byDriveId("{drive-id}").items().byDriveItemId("{driveItem-id}").restore().post(restorePostRequestBody);

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const driveItem = {
  parentReference: {
    id: 'String',
  },
  name: 'String'
};

await client.api('/me/drive/items/{item-id}/restore')
	.version('beta')
	.post(driveItem);

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Drives\Item\Items\Item\Restore\RestorePostRequestBody;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Models\ItemReference;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new RestorePostRequestBody();
$parentReference = new ItemReference();
$parentReference->setId('String');
$requestBody->setParentReference($parentReference);
$requestBody->setName('String');

$result = $graphServiceClient->drives()->byDriveId('drive-id')->items()->byDriveItemId('driveItem-id')->restore()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Files

$params = @{
	parentReference = @{
		id = "String"
	}
	name = "String"
}

Restore-MgBetaDriveItem -DriveId $driveId -DriveItemId $driveItemId -BodyParameter $params

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.drives.item.items.item.restore.restore_post_request_body import RestorePostRequestBody
from msgraph_beta.generated.models.item_reference import ItemReference
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = RestorePostRequestBody(
	parent_reference = ItemReference(
		id = "String",
	),
	name = "String",
)

result = await graph_client.drives.by_drive_id('drive-id').items.by_drive_item_id('driveItem-id').restore.post(request_body)

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "1312abc!1231",
  "name": "new-restored-item-name.txt",
  "size": 19121,
  "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-12-12T10:40:59Z"
}

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