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Restore file

Restore a soft-deleted file to its original folder, or the workspace root if that folder was archived. Name collisions add a `_restored` suffix; read `folderPath` and `name` from the response. Already-active files return unchanged, making retries safe. An archived workspace returns `400`; an unresolved name collision returns `409`. OAuth scope: `api:write`.

POST/api/v2/files/{fileId}/restore

Restore a soft-deleted file to its original folder, or the workspace root if that folder was archived. Name collisions add a _restored suffix; read folderPath and name from the response. Already-active files return unchanged, making retries safe. An archived workspace returns 400; an unresolved name collision returns 409.

OAuth scope: api:write.

Authentication

Send a personal or workspace API key in X-API-Key. See key types and access; operations that reject workspace keys say so in their description.

Send X-API-Key in the request header.

Alternatively

Send a Sim OAuth access token in Authorization: Bearer. See OAuth authentication and scopes.

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN

Required scopes: api:write

OAuth flows
json
{
  "authorizationCode": {
    "authorizationUrl": "https://www.sim.ai/api/auth/oauth2/authorize",
    "tokenUrl": "https://www.sim.ai/api/auth/oauth2/token",
    "refreshUrl": "https://www.sim.ai/api/auth/oauth2/token",
    "scopes": {
      "api:read": "Read your workspaces, workflows, files, tables, and logs",
      "api:write": "Read, create, change, run, and delete resources in your workspaces",
      "offline_access": "Stay signed in without asking again"
    }
  }
}

OAuth scope: api:write.

Path parameters

fileIdstringRequired

File identifier.

minLength
1
maxLength
128
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$

Request body

Required

Workspace scope for the archived file.

object

Workspace scope for the archived file.

1 field
workspaceIdstringRequired

Workspace that owns the archived file.

minLength
1
maxLength
128

Additional properties are not allowed.

Request example 1

json
{
  "workspaceId": "a91c4b2e-6d3f-4e8a-b5c7-0d9e2f1a8c64"
}

Responses

200

The file as it exists after the restore.

object

The restored file, with its resulting folderPath and name.

1 field
dataobjectRequired

Response data.

11 fields
idstringRequired

Unique file identifier.

webUrlstringRequired

Canonical absolute URL for opening this resource in the Sim web application.

format
uri
namestringRequired

Original file name.

sizenumberRequired

Size in bytes of the stored file. For a generated document (docx, pptx, pdf, xlsx) this is the generation source, not the rendered document, so it does not predict how many bytes downloading the file returns.

minimum
0
typestringRequired

MIME type of the stored file. For a generated document (docx, pptx, pdf, xlsx) this is the generation source type, not the rendered document type a download serves.

keystringRequired

Storage key for the file.

folderPathstringRequired

Canonical containing-folder path. / is the workspace root.

maxLength
4096
uploadedByEmailstringRequired

Current email address of the uploader.

format
email
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$
uploadedAtstringRequired

ISO 8601 timestamp when the file was uploaded.

format
date-time
updatedAtstringRequired

ISO 8601 timestamp of the last content or metadata write.

format
date-time
deletedAtvalueRequired

ISO 8601 timestamp when the file was archived by deleting it, or null while the file is active. Only an archived-scope file list returns files with a non-null value.

format
date-time
Schema details

Any of

Option 1string
Option 2null

Additional properties are not allowed.

Additional properties are not allowed.

Response example 1

json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "wf_V1StGXR8z5jdHi6BmyT91",
    "webUrl": "https://www.sim.ai/workspace/a91c4b2e-6d3f-4e8a-b5c7-0d9e2f1a8c64/files/wf_V1StGXR8z5jdHi6BmyT91",
    "name": "data_restored.csv",
    "size": 1024,
    "type": "text/csv",
    "key": "workspace/example/data.csv",
    "folderPath": "/",
    "uploadedByEmail": "jane@example.com",
    "uploadedAt": "2026-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "deletedAt": null
  }
}

Response headers

X-RateLimit-Limitinteger

Maximum requests allowed in the current window.

minimum
0
maximum
9007199254740991
X-RateLimit-Remaininginteger

Requests remaining in the current window.

minimum
0
maximum
9007199254740991
X-RateLimit-Resetstring

ISO 8601 timestamp when the current rate-limit window resets.

format
date-time
pattern
^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d(?::[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?)?(?:Z))$
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