Assets
Deleting and restoring
How to delete assets and restore them from the trash.
How deletion works
Deleting an asset moves it to the workspace trash. This is a soft delete — the file is not immediately gone. It disappears from the portal immediately, so clients can no longer see or download it, but you have 30 days to change your mind.
To delete a single asset, hover the asset card, open the context menu (the three-dot icon), and select Delete. To delete multiple assets at once, enter selection mode by clicking the checkbox on any card, select the files you want to remove, then click Delete selected in the action bar.
Trashed assets are visible to editors in the workspace trash view. Clients never see the trash — from their perspective, the files are simply gone from the portal.
The 30-day retention window
Once an asset is in the trash, it stays there for 30 days before boveDAM permanently deletes it.
During that window, you can restore the file to its original location at any time. After 30 days, permanent deletion happens automatically and the file cannot be recovered.
A note on storage: trashed assets still count against your workspace storage quota until they are permanently deleted. If you are close to your quota and need to free space quickly, permanently delete items from the trash rather than waiting for the automatic window to expire.
Restoring from trash
To restore an asset, open the workspace trash view from the left sidebar. Locate the file you need — you can search by name — then click the Restore button on the asset card.
The file is returned to its original section and folder. If the section or folder it came from was also deleted, you will be prompted to choose a new location.
You can restore individual files or select multiple files and use the Restore selected action in the toolbar. There is no limit on how many assets you can restore at once.
If a file has already been permanently deleted — either manually or because the 30-day window passed — it cannot be recovered. boveDAM does not keep backups of permanently deleted assets. If preserving specific files long-term is important, use an archive portal rather than deleting assets outright.