(De-)Archiving issues. Troubleshooting didn't work
OpenAI Developer Community
May 17, 2026
Yeah, that’s frustrating. Unfortunately, once a chat is deleted, there isn’t currently a way to restore it.
One thing that helps is periodically cleaning up older/unneeded chats instead of keeping a very large history, since accidental deletions can be hard to recover from later.
I’ll also flag this feedback internally since a few people have run into the same issue and better recovery options would definitely help here.
- Avinash
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