You can add -firststage or -secondstage after Get-PnPRecycleBinItem. Connect-PnPOnline -Url Retrieving the items from the Recycle binīefore we apply any filter, let’s just check if there are any items in the recycle bin at all (Get-PnPRecycleBinItem).count When done, we can connect to the SharePoint site in question. Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline So to get started we need to install the PnP PowerShell module if you don’t have it already. Also, I wanted to add some filters, like date and user. With this many items, I want an overview before I restore it. I did some searching on the internet to find a solution and found a few using PnP-Context: $web = Get-PnPWebīut this didn’t return any result if I run $unt the result was 0. Finally, I found a post from Farook Khan who had a similar issue and used PnP-RecycleBinItem. You can restore items from the recycle bin in SharePoint Online, but these many items can easier be done with PowerShell. Unfortunately, he deleted the items from his desktop without stopping the synchronization first. He synced the folder to his desktop, to find out it was way too big.

One of my users deleted a whole document library containing more than 12000 items.

Powershell empty recycle bin