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Powerapps - Failed to recover a deleted powerapps

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Posted on by mcbaec

HELP!

I found out this morning that one of the apps in an umanaged solution (dev environment) I am working on disappeared (I do not think I delete it, buy hey it's not there...)

I have got Admin role, so using powershell command Get-AdminDeletedPowerAppsList command I could see it in the list of deleted apps.
Ran the AdminRecoverDeletedPowerApp command successufully got the 200 code back.

Then ran the Get-AdminDeletedPowerAppsList and I could no longer see it in the list

THEN...
I go to the environment and the app is not there. If I run powershell Get-AdminPowerApp I see the app in the list with the suffix "RestoredyyyyMMdd..." - but cannot see it in the powerapps environment
I also used powerautomate "Get App as Admin" action and it also failed to find the app.

I read somewhere that if the app was in a solution I cannot recover it using this method?

Someone please help!

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NickMerrick 419 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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have you tried exporting the solution the app is a part of? might let you at least get your hands on the app zip file then re-import it.

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mcbaec 28 on at

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Thanks for the answer - just tried what you suggested and I do not see the missing app msapp file in the exported solution

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Mark Nanneman 991 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Have you tried submitting a trouble ticket in the Admin Center?
I've gotten assistance from a Microsoft professional to recover a deleted app before.
They'll most likely try the methods you're describing but it's worth a shot.

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mcbaec 28 on at

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I did raised a ticket in the end.
We found out that we could see the apps under Admin Center-> Environment -> Resources -> PowerApps
I just couldnt see it on the environment itself. We tried a buch of stuff and nothing worked.
the Microsft tech ended up sending me a previous version of the the same app in editor mode. I changed something, saved As, and it showed up again as a new app on my list of apps. Not the perfect solution but better than having to build an app from scratch.

This was the summary of what we did:
Solution/Resolution:
We copied the App URL of an existing app in its Edit mode and replaced the app ID with the missing app Id and we were able to load the missing app in its edit mode
We then made changes, and saved a copy of the app, then publish

Now, to the reason why this might have happened
When I tried to re-add the app to the original solution - I got an error saying a table was required in the app and could not be found in the environment...
The day before the app disappeared, I was doing some tiding in my environment - mostly deleting legacy tables.

Apparently I was able to delete a table connected to the app. I think this triggered the deletion of the app/corruption of the app.

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