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When you remove a resume, cover letter or application, it goes to Trash instead of disappearing. It stays there for 30 days, so you can bring it back if you change your mind.

Move a document to Trash

On Documents, open the document’s ⋯ menu and choose Move to Trash. In the editor, open the document name menu at the top left and choose Move to Trash; you return to Documents. To remove several documents at once, select their checkboxes in Documents, then choose Move to Trash in the selection bar. Press Esc or select × to clear a selection without removing anything. Reactive Resume doesn’t ask you to confirm, because the move can be undone. A message appears at the bottom of the screen. Select Undo to put the document back straight away.
Documents after Frontend Engineer was moved to Trash, with an Undo message

Moving to Trash offers Undo

While a resume is in Trash, its public link stops working. Restoring it brings the resume back as it was.
Locked documents can’t be moved to Trash. Choose Unlock editing in the document’s menu first.

Open the Trash

Trash always appears at the bottom of the sidebar. Select it to open the Trash page. Its count covers documents and applications; there is no count when it is empty. On a phone, the sidebar becomes a tab bar, so a Trash row with the count appears at the end of Documents instead, as in the Android and iPhone apps.
Calm sidebar with Search, Today, Documents, Applications, Career, Trash, Shortcuts and account settings

Trash stays in the sidebar

You can also open the command bar with ⌘ K (Ctrl K on Windows and Linux) and choose Trash, or go to https://rxresu.me/dashboard/trash. Self-hosters use their own address. The Trash page has All, Documents and Applications filters. Each row shows its kind, when it moved to Trash and how many days are left. It loads up to 100 documents at a time; use Previous and Next below the rows to browse more. The sidebar count covers both kinds of item in Trash. When it’s empty, it says Trash is empty. Previous rows stay visible while another page loads, but selection and actions wait until the requested page arrives. If loading fails, choose Try again; the previous rows remain visible and unavailable for changes.
Trash lists four archived letters on its last page, with selection checkboxes, row options, Empty trash and pagination showing 201–204 of 204

The last page of Trash after restoring one document

Select a row’s checkbox to act on one document, or select several. Select all chooses the rows currently loaded on the page. The bar at the bottom offers Restore and Delete permanently… for that selection. Empty Trash… in the page header is separate: it deletes everything in Trash, not only the rows you selected.
Shared Trash with Old draft selected and Select all, Restore and Delete permanently actions

Act on selected items in Trash

Restore a document

1

Select the documents

Tick the checkbox beside each document you want back, or select Select all for the loaded rows.
2

Choose Restore

Select Restore. Restoring asks for no confirmation. The documents go back to Documents with their content, tags and links intact.
You can still restore one document from its row menu. On the Trash page, select ⋯ at the end of the document’s row, then choose Restore.
Shared Trash with documents and an application, and the Old draft row menu open

Restore or delete one item from its row menu

Restore an application

Choose Move to Trash from an application’s menu, or from its bulk selection controls. The move happens at once, without confirmation, and a message offers Undo. This saves the move on the server; reloading does not lose the recovery option. Open Trash in the web sidebar and choose Applications, or open Trash on the native Applications screen. The Applications view loads 100 rows at a time, with Previous and Next for more. Select Restore beside the application. Its identity, timeline, document links, submitted snapshots, workspace, application-specific Knowledge, coach history and attached bytes stay intact. The move itself changes no linked document. Later explicit edits or permanent deletion of a linked document can still change that relationship. Applications stay in Trash for 30 days, then are deleted permanently. Applications already in Trash before this retention rule takes effect get 30 days from that date; their displayed time remaining can be longer during the transition. Delete permanently… asks for confirmation and removes the application and its dependent records. It keeps linked resumes, cover letters and their versions. Empty Trash… deletes both documents and applications, even with one kind filtered. Restore and permanent deletion check the exact listed Trash generation. If another session restores or re-trashes the application, an older action fails instead of deleting or restoring the newer state. Refresh the list and review the current row before retrying. If the posting was tracked again while this application was in Trash, resolve that duplicate before restoring it. Application schedules and notifications are hidden while it is in Trash; queued work is canceled and existing coach runs receive cancellation. Restore does not replay canceled work. Review upcoming schedules and turn device reminders back on where needed.
Trash filtered to Applications, with the fictional Brightwell job and Restore

Restore an application from the shared Trash

Delete a document for good

Documents are deleted permanently 30 days after you moved them to Trash. To delete them sooner:
1

Select what to delete

Tick the checkbox beside each document, or use Select all for the loaded rows. To delete everything in Trash instead, choose Empty Trash… in the page header.
2

Confirm

Select Delete permanently… or Empty Trash…, then select the plain Delete permanently or Empty Trash button to confirm. Choose Keep in Trash to change your mind.
Delete Old draft permanently dialog with Keep in Trash and Delete permanently buttons

Permanent deletion asks with a plain button

The confirmation names the selected rows for a selection, and says Empty Trash? with the total count for Empty trash…. The distinction matters when only some rows are loaded: Empty trash always covers the whole Trash.
Empty Trash confirmation naming three documents and one application, with Keep in Trash and Empty Trash buttons

Empty Trash covers documents and applications

A deleted document can’t be restored, and neither can its version history. If you might need it again, download a JSON copy first (see Downloading your resume).