Answers.Body: <p>Use the Advanced Search (in the Search menu) and check the box labeled 'Search in Trash (deleted contacts)'. It is a small check box in the Search Settings part of the Basic Criteria section.  Whatever search you do will look in the 'Trash' rather than among active contacts.</p>
  
  <p>Once those search results come up, you can select your desired contacts and, from the Actions list, 'restore' them.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: If you then select the contact you want to do something with, you get the option for your selected contacts to either delete permanently, or restore.
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Answers.Text: Thank you Erik, I should have mentioned that. I'm editing my answer to include the last step of the retrieval process.
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Body: <p>I inadvertently deleted a number of contacts and sent them to "trash". How do I retrieve them?</p>
  
Tags: <contacts><search>
Title: How to retrieve contacts from trash
ThreadText: # How to retrieve contacts from trash
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-30)
  
  I inadvertently deleted a number of contacts and sent them to "trash". How do I retrieve them?
  
  **Tags:** contacts, search
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-12-30. Score: 6
  
  Use the Advanced Search (in the Search menu) and check the box labeled 'Search in Trash (deleted contacts)'. It is a small check box in the Search Settings part of the Basic Criteria section. Whatever search you do will look in the 'Trash' rather than among active contacts.
  
  Once those search results come up, you can select your desired contacts and, from the Actions list, 'restore' them.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: If you then select the contact you want to do something with, you get the option for your selected contacts to either delete permanently, or restore.  
  > **username_1**: Thank you Erik, I should have mentioned that. I'm editing my answer to include the last step of the retrieval process.  
  
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