# Issue with recovering posts to un-deleted state when permanently deleting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/398938
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** permanently-delete
**Created:** [March 21, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/398938 "2026-03-21T03:15:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![sniper756](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sniper756/32/545002_2.png) [@sniper756](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sniper756)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/398938/1 "2026-03-21T03:15:02Z")

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Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Delete the post.

2. Immediately permanently delete the post before the 5-minute waiting period is over.

3. The normal 5-minute waiting prompt appears.

4. After automatically returning, the following issue occurs: the deleted post is automatically restored to its undeleted state, requiring deletion again and then waiting another 5 minutes for permanent deletion.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/398938/2 "2026-03-23T16:24:38Z")

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Thanks for the report 👍 This will be fixed by

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38793](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38793)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/398938/3 "2026-03-24T21:00:06Z")

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