driveItem: restore

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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

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 a 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/v1.0/me/drive/items/{item-id}/restore
Content-type: application/json

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

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"
}