What is the Recycle Bin and what are its limitations?
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The Salesforce Recycle Bin stores deleted records for 15 days before permanent deletion. Records can be restored individually or in bulk, or permanently deleted by an admin. Capacity: 25 times the org's MB of storage (minimum 5,000 records). Limitations:
1. Child records in a master-detail relationship are cascade-deleted with the master — they appear in the Recycle Bin too and must be restored together.
2. Lookup relationship children are not cascade-deleted.
3. After 15 days, records are permanently deleted and unrecoverable (unless using a data backup solution).
4. The Recycle Bin is per-org, not per-user — admins see all deleted records.
5. Hard Delete (via Data Loader) bypasses the Recycle Bin entirely. Salesforce offers a Data Recovery Service as a paid option for data deleted beyond the 15-day window.
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