Restore from trash

Who can do this

The organization-wide Trash page is Admin only, with one exception: anyone can open it to recover an app they deleted before ever publishing it, and sees only their own under Unpublished apps. Each feature also has its own Trash drawer: on a private feature the owner can use it, and so can an Admin; on an organization feature, an Admin. A maintainer of an organization feature can restore its tables, apps, workflows, notes, secrets, automations and MCP servers by asking Ronja in a chat, though the drawer itself shows for Admins only.

Deleting in Ronja is not final. Deleted items move to the trash and stay restorable for 30 days before they’re permanently purged. That covers access groups, features, tables, workflows, notes, secrets, MCP servers, apps, connectors, automations, Saved Agents, and managed databases — including a database’s dev copy, which lands here when you discard it.

Restore from the Trash page (admins)

1. Open Trash in the admin area (/data-studio/trash).
2. Find the item in its section. Every section has a Purges in column counting down: “N days left”, then “Nh left”, “less than an hour left”, and finally “purging on next sweep”.
3. Click Restore. The item comes back — including its automations.

A deleted item’s name is free while it’s in the trash, so something else can take it. If that happened, a restored table or feature comes back under a slightly different name — its own name with a short code after it, like Orders (k3m9pq) — rather than being stuck in the trash. Rename it to whatever you want once it’s back.

Everything deleted in the last 30 days, with a countdown to its purge.

Restore an app you never published

An app that has never been published is only ever visible to you, so nobody else’s trash can list it — including an admin’s. Deleting one (or discarding its draft, which is the same thing when there is no published version underneath) therefore puts it in your trash.

1. Open Trash from the sidebar — the entry appears only when you have one waiting. (It is the /data-studio/trash page; if you are not an admin, Unpublished apps is the only section you see.)
2. Click Restore. The app comes back with its code, still unpublished.

Delete permanently is not offered here — purging early is an admin action. Left alone, the app is purged after 30 days like anything else.

Restore from a feature’s Trash drawer

1. Open the feature page and expand the Trash drawer at the bottom of the Inventory tab — “Restorable for 30 days before permanently purged.”
2. Click Restore on the item. (The drawer also offers Delete permanently.)

Restore a deleted feature

Deleted features have their own recovery spot:

1. Open the Features page (/my-features).
2. Expand Recently deleted.
3. Click Restore on the feature.

Admins find deleted organization-scope features in the same accordion on the Shared features page (/features).

Delete permanently

On the organization-wide Trash page, Delete now opens the permanent-deletion confirmation. A feature’s Trash drawer calls this action Delete permanently. Both skip the 30-day wait.

Caution

Delete permanently is the one truly irreversible action here — the confirmation warns that the item “will be deleted immediately and cannot be recovered.” For connectors it adds: “Associated tables will remain but stop syncing.” Everything else on this page, including moving an item to trash in the first place, can be undone within the 30-day window.

It has to be you, in Ronja. Permanent deletion is not available through the API or the CLI — an automated caller is refused, whatever its permissions. Moving something to the trash is fully scriptable; closing the door on it is not. See Actions the API can’t take.

Good to know

• If a resource section cannot load, the page names it and offers Try again. Other loaded resources stay available; the page does not treat a failed request as an empty trash.
• The Trash page shows the most recent 100 items per section; older entries no longer appear on the page but are still restorable via the API until their 30 days elapse.
• Private stays private in the trash too. A deleted private feature is listed only for the person who owns it — an admin’s Features section shows organization features plus their own private ones, never someone else’s. The owner restores it from Recently deleted on their own Features page, or an admin restores it once they are given the feature directly. Either way it is purged after 30 days like anything else.
• An open draft of something in the trash can’t be submitted for review or committed — restore the item first, and the draft picks up where it left off. Until then a submitted draft of it is left out of the Inbox.
• While a feature is in the Trash, its tables drop out of search, table lists and the Data map, and no one — Admins included — can open them or add them to apps, workflows, automations or Saved Agents. Apps and workflows that already read them stop working until you restore the feature, which brings the tables back. The feature’s other items are unaffected.
• A workflow that already uses a deleted table, secret or Agent stays editable. Saving the file that still mentions it is refused — the message names every broken reference in that file and offers both ways out, restore it or remove the reference. Any other save of that workflow goes through and tells you what is still broken, so you can clear the references one file at a time however many there are. Restoring the deleted item clears the message with nothing else to do. What stays broken meanwhile is the run: a run that reaches the deleted item still fails, and goes on failing until the item is restored or the reference is removed. Editing your way out is never blocked; the workflow is not fixed until you do.
• You don’t have to try an edit to find out something is broken. Opening a workflow or a Saved Agent that still points at a deleted item shows a Broken references panel at the top of the page, and for an app the same panel is on its Details page. It names each one, says whether it is in the trash or gone for good, and gives both ways out — restore it, or remove the reference. For a workflow it also names the file the reference is in; for an app it means removing the item from what the app is allowed to read, and for a Saved Agent, from its list of references. The panel disappears on its own once the reference is gone or the item is restored. The Workflows list flags them too: a workflow bound to a deleted table or secret carries a Broken references marker beside its name, so you can spot one without opening it — hover for the details, and open the workflow for the file each reference is in.
• An app or a Saved Agent that already uses a deleted item is never stuck either. Saving it goes through, and the response tells you what is still broken — you clear it by removing the item from what the app is allowed to read, or from the Agent’s list of references, in one save. If a save sends a Saved Agent’s deleted reference back unchanged, or you restore an older version of an app that used an item now in the trash, it is refused with a message that names the item, says it is in the trash, and offers both ways out. An app may also refuse to publish while it points at something deleted — same two ways out.
• Adding an item an app or Saved Agent does not already use gives the same “not accessible” message whether the item is in the trash or you simply can’t open it, so nobody learns about items they can’t see. If you expected to be able to use it, check the Trash.
• A managed database — and a dev copy of one — is restored from the Managed Databases section of the Trash page. It is the one kind with no Delete permanently button: dropping the real database happens on its own when the 30 days are up. Restoring a database is refused while your organization already has ten (the limit); delete one first. A dev copy restores regardless.
• Purging runs on a periodic sweep, so a just-expired row can briefly show “purging on next sweep” before it disappears.
• Hiding something from Ronja without deleting it is a different tool — archiving, which never expires. See Organize features.