How do I retrieve a deleted chat in ChatGPT that I mistakenly deleted? Please tell me this is an option.
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Welcome to the developer forum.
This is not available, I believe, if you delete. Thereās a new āarchiveā feature for the threads.
After archiving some chats, they still got deleted by ādelete allā. This should not be the idea how āarchiveā and ādelete allā are designed.
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I havenāt tested myself, but if thatās the case, yes! Definitely that should be disclosed. Have you reached out to help.openai.com to let them know as feedback? Iāll try to pass it up the chain here, but no promises!
Iām newbee here and this is my first day after subscription. I guess thatās why I did ādelete allā without enough concerns. But thanks Iāll try loggin this at help.openai.com.
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Ah, gotcha. No worries. Stick around. Thereās a wealth of information here hidden amongst the weeds. 
Is there a place I can request manual help to retrieve my archived but deleted chats?
Sorry, help.openai.com is the best method at this time.
Likely nothing that can be done about it. Again, I havenāt confirmed the behavior you describe yet, though. I donāt have a ton in my archive, though.
Something to keep in mind moving forward, though, so you donāt accidentally lose any others.
Itās surprising that deleted chats and archived chats are facilitated the way other platforms are.
Iāve recently regenerated the first question I asked in a very long chat, that had learned a fair amount of info which ended up overwriting the entire history of the chat. I thought there might have been a way to āundoā this action as is the case with other programs but it seems not. Now I have to retype and regenerate all the previous information which GPT will now have to re-learn.