Get back a deleted or overwritten project record, even when the recycle bin cannot.

What goes wrong when construction project files and records are deleted?

• Procore's recycle bins work tool by tool. Procore says commitments, meetings, specifications and project-level equipment entries cannot be retrieved from the Recycle Bin.
• In Autodesk Docs you need Edit permission or above to restore deleted files and folders, and files inside a deleted folder cannot be restored on their own. You have to restore the whole folder.
• Every recycle bin lives inside the platform. When the project is archived or closed, or your access to another company's project ends, the recycle bin goes with it.
• A sync to SharePoint, Teams or Box copies the deletion across. Microsoft keeps deleted SharePoint items for 93 days, then deletes them permanently, so a mistake noticed in month four is gone from both places.
• Overwrites are quieter than deletions. A wrong file uploaded as a new version, or a register cleaned up in a hurry, leaves the project looking complete until someone needs the earlier version.
• Aconex documents cannot be deleted, but they can be hidden from your register or marked as no longer in use, and Oracle says a document marked no longer in use cannot be restored to current.

Which recovery option fits which kind of deleted project record?

For a file deleted yesterday on a live project, the platform's own recycle bin is usually the fastest fix. The further you are from the mistake, in time or in access, the more you depend on a copy held outside the platform.

The table compares the three places a deleted record can come back from: the platform itself, a sync target such as SharePoint or Box, and a scheduled backup in your own storage.

When is a platform recycle bin enough to recover a deleted file?

When the project is live, you still have access, the tool supports retrieval and someone notices the mistake quickly. In that case, use it. Procore's Recycle Bin can retrieve RFIs, submittals, documents, photos, emails, forms, observations, punch list items and transmittals, among others, and Autodesk Docs puts deleted files and folders in Deleted items, where someone with Edit permission can restore them.

A backup earns its keep in the cases a recycle bin cannot reach.

• The deleted item is in a tool without retrieval, such as Procore commitments or meetings.
• Nobody with the right permission is available, or the person who deleted it was the admin.
• The mistake was an overwrite, not a deletion, and the earlier version matters.
• The project has been archived or closed, or it belongs to another company and your access has ended.
• The deletion was copied into SharePoint or Box and has since been purged there too.

How SIINC keeps deleted and overwritten project records

Deletions kept for the plan term

Sync runs copy only what changed since the last run, and keep anything deleted in the platform for the term of your plan. Deletions are mirrored into your backup only if you turn that on.

Earlier file versions captured

File versions are captured run after run, so a mistake in the platform does not overwrite the version you already hold.

Restore it or download it

Search the Procore Workbench, Autodesk Portal or Aconex Portal by project, module and record. Then restore the record into Procore, Autodesk or Aconex, into the same account or a different one, or download the file, the folder or a ZIP.

Outside the platform and your access

The copy sits in an Amazon S3 bucket or Azure Blob container in your own account, so it is still there after the project is archived, closed or taken out of your reach.

Know when the project was last captured

Execution history records every run with its scope, size, warnings and errors, so you can see which run came before the mistake.