2.10 Opening and Emptying the Trash

All deleted mail and phone messages, appointments, tasks, documents, and reminder notes are stored in the Trash. Items in the Trash can be viewed, opened, or returned to your Mailbox until the Trash is emptied. (Emptying the Trash removes items in the Trash from the system.)

You can empty your entire Trash, or empty only selected items. Items in the Trash are emptied according to the way your GroupWise administrator specifies, or you can empty the Trash manually. The system administrator can specify that your Trash is emptied automatically on a regular basis.

This section contains the following topics:

2.10.1 Opening Your Trash

  1. In your Mailbox, click the Trash folder.

You can open, save, and view information on items in the Trash. You can also permanently remove items or return them to the Mailbox. Right-click an item in the Trash to see more options.

2.10.2 Saving an Item That Is in Your Trash

You can save items that are in the Trash the same way you save any other item. See Section 2.9.1, Saving an Item for more information.

2.10.3 Emptying the Trash

  1. In your Mailbox, right-click the Trash folder, then click Empty Trash.

2.10.4 Emptying Selected Items from the Trash

  1. In your Mailbox, click the Trash folder.

  2. Select one or more items.

  3. Click Empty Selected Items, then click OK.

2.10.5 Undeleting Items from the Trash

When you delete an item, the item is moved to the Trash. The item remains in the Trash until you purge the item from the Trash or purge all items by emptying the Trash. The Trash works like other folders in your Folder List, which means you can list the items in the Trash as well as open and view item contents. You can also undelete items from the Trash. Undeleted items return to the folders from which they were deleted.

The Windows version of GroupWise includes an option for automatically emptying the Trash after a specified number of days. If this option has been set, either by you or by the GroupWise system administrator, items in the Trash are automatically purged after the specified number of days.

To undelete items from your Trash folder,

  1. Click the Trash folder.

  2. Select the item, then click Undelete at the top of the Item List.

    or

    Click the item to open it, then click Undelete.

The item is moved from your Trash to the folder from which it was originally deleted.