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Working on mobile phones and tablets is no longer strange. And more when there are all sorts of applications to facilitate this task. Google has worked hard to make text tools, spreadsheets, and presentations accessible and convenient. However, until now, they had a big problem: recovering the deleted documents was a pain A very arduous task involving the using another app and a huge waste of timeNow there is a new method to get those deleted documents back.
To date, text documents, spreadsheets or presentations deleted from paths Google applications, ended up in the trash Google Drive That is, to recover them it was necessary to access the Google Drive storage service, not the applications where it was created, and go through the trash section. However, and after a long time, Google has updated its office applications to facilitate this process by bringing the trash section to each tool.
How to restore a deleted document
First make sure you have the latest version of Google Docs, Sheets Google Calculation and Google Slides for the Android platform To do this, all you have to do is go to Google Play Store and get hold of the latest versions. At the time of publication of this article, Google has begun distributing this update, although has not reached SpainSomething that shouldn't take more than a few days or a couple of weeks at the most.
After that, all you have to do is use the applications as usual to create any type of document. The difference is that, when clicking on the delete option, it will not be necessary to access Google Drive to be able to recover them from the trash.
The novelty resides in the new trash section included in the lateral menu of all these office applications. Thus, any deleted document ends up in this place for a certain time.You only have to access it, as if it were another folder, and select the document you want restore
When you recover a document, it will be present in its regular folder Just where it was before being sent to the trash. This makes it much more convenient managing all this content and knowing its location without losing sight of it
This process avoids all the arduous task that required the user to use Google Drive to retrieve their documents. A process that is much more agile and faster that does not change or modify anything regarding the operation of these services, but that it does represent a point in favor for the user. Especially when many documents are generated and deleted, as this makes it possible to dispense with the jump between office applications and the service Google Drive
The classic process
If the Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides apps have not yet been updated, you need to take out the old process to recover these files. All you have to do is access the application Google Drive Here, in the side menu, you can find the section trash , where all deleted documents from those applications are collected, available to be recovered.
