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where are files in OneDrive located when they are deleted - Retention Policy

We have a retention policy that we created in MS 365 that holds the documents of all the users
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I notice that our Preservation Hold Library in Sharepoint works whenever a user deletes an item in Sharepoint it goes straight there.  However, if a user deletes a file in their OneDrive, where does it exactly go so that we can find it?

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It goes into a Preservation Hold Library within their own ODFB site collection. You can access it by means of eDiscovery/Content search or by granting permissions on the ODFB SC itself.
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is there an article on how to search it thru content search
Same way you search SPO files - you enter the site collection URL. There's no easy "select user" method, even after years of asking for such. But you can generate a list of ODFB URLs via PowerShell if needed: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/content-search-reference?view=o365-worldwide#searching-onedrive-accounts
Unbelievable that they don't make this an easier process!
Is there a metric in the content search to find deleted items?
That's where this is confusing. What is the location for the preservation Hold library on a one drive account? I don't see it anywhere.  is there any documentation?
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