Use Teams on the desktop or web to delete files. Use SharePoint or OneDrive to recover them.
Delete a file from a channel
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Go to the Files tab in a channel.
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Select More options
next to the file and then select Delete.
![Select Delete](https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/8d59e523-8eac-4ccf-866f-695df47be6a2.png)
To delete several files at once, select each file by clicking the left side of its row, and then select More options
next to one of the selected files.
![Select multiple files](https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/c41d4f7f-2a76-441c-92a2-ff213cf5a0ee.png)
Delete a file from a chat
You can remove a file from a chat message you've already sent by editing the message
If the file you shared to a chat came from your cloud storage (like OneDrive), you can delete the file from the Files list.
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Open Files on the left side of Teams.
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Under Cloud storage, select the cloud service where you originally saved the file.
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Select More options
next to the file and then select Delete.
Recover a deleted channel file
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Open the channel's Files tab and select Open in SharePoint at the top of the page.
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In SharePoint, select Recycle bin on the left side of the page.
This will show a list of all files deleted from every channel in the team.
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Select the file (or files) you want to recover and then select Restore at the top of the page.
Recover a deleted OneDrive file
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Open Files on the left side of Teams and then select OneDrive.
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Select Open in OneDrive at the top of the page.
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In OneDrive, select Recycle bin on the left side of the page, select the file you want to recover, and then select Restore at the top of the page.