Recover/undelete passwords

I have a use case here.

Just implemented Passbolt and I’m teaching my team to use it.
We have a shared folder where the group is the owner. Everyone should be able to add and update passwords that are used in the team.
One team member has accidentally deleted a few passwords in that shared folder.
Is there a way to recover the deleted passwords?

Ps. This is a self-hosted community edition.

Hello @Iwan.v.kanten and welcome to the forum!

There is no way to directly recover a deleted password. However, there is one possibility maybe.
If you have the emails activated for password sharing with the encrypted password in it, then you might recover the password.
For that you will need that the recipient of the message runs a decryption of the data in the email with their own private key (that you will need to decrypt thanks to the its passphrase first).

I can try to guide through the decryption process but first, do you have the emails by any chance?

@Steph is right, take a look at my answer here: As a user I can retrieve previous versions of a password - #19 by max
previous version or deleted if you enable the email notification with encrypted content you can have them.
It is not user friendly but its a valid disaster recovery.

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