1# Recycle bin view
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3OneNote 2010's Notebook Recycle Bin (Share, observed in a lab clone on 2026-10-01): the bin
4opens as its own row of tabs, Deleted Pages then each deleted section, headed `Recycle Bin for
5"Notebook":`, read-only under a bar ("To restore a page or section, right-click and move it out
6of this Recycle Bin. Content here is deleted after 60 days."). A page's Move or Copy takes it to
7any section; a section's moves it into the notebook or a group, its file moving there. Empty
8Recycle Bin asks "Are you sure you want to empty the Recycle Bin for this notebook?", deletes
9Deleted Pages' pages in one revision and each binned section's file, and leaves the bin's TOC
10byte for byte, its entries naming files no longer there.
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12`candidate/before` is the notebook
13`pages_and_sections_leave_the_recycle_bin_as_onenote_restores_them` in
14`crates/snowbound/src/recycle.rs` exports with `SNOWBOUND_RECYCLE_EXPORT`: three pages and five
15sections deleted into the bin. `candidate/after` is it once Snowbound restored a page (its
16identity kept), copied one out (a new identity), deleted one for good, restored a section to the
17notebook and emptied the bin. `cold/before` and `cold/after` are fresh OneNote 2010 reads of
18each: everything where it was meant to be, every file left as written.
19`tools/test_recycle_bin_view.py` checks them without a VM.