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Get your expired presentation transfers back

A dead link to your presentation deck doesn't have to mean starting over. WeTransfer Ultimate holds expired transfers in a recoverable state, letting you restore slides, pitch decks, and speaker notes straight from your account — including transfers you sent long before switching to Ultimate.

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Sending a presentation via WeTransfer is straightforward, but what happens when someone needs access after the link expires is where plans genuinely differ. Ultimate subscribers can recover expired transfers directly from the Transfers panel, restoring everything from a single-slide PDF to a multi-file deck with embedded assets, without re-uploading anything. That recovery capability works retroactively, so presentations you sent while on Free or Starter may already be restorable the moment you upgrade. Every file returns exactly as it was originally sent, with no compression or quality loss on PowerPoint files, Keynote exports, PDF decks, or any supporting visuals. On Free and Starter plans, expiry is permanent and the files are removed from WeTransfer's servers, leaving no path back.

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FAQs

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Yes, if you have since upgraded to Ultimate. The recovery capability applies retroactively, so presentations sent under a Free or Starter account may still be restorable from your Transfers panel once your plan changes. Free and Starter accounts themselves have no recovery path — once those transfers expire, the files are permanently deleted from WeTransfer's servers.


On Ultimate, the recovery window depends on file size. Presentation files under 256 MB can be recovered for up to one year after expiry. Files over 256 MB have a 90-day recovery window. If the Recoverable option was enabled when the transfer was sent, you'll see a restore option in the transfer details inside your Transfers panel.


Yes. WeTransfer never compresses or re-encodes files, so a recovered presentation comes back exactly as it was uploaded — original formatting, embedded fonts, linked media, and full resolution on any images inside the deck. This applies to any format: PPTX, KEY, PDF, ODP, or a zipped folder of presentation assets.


Yes. The Recoverable option is enabled by default on every new transfer you send on Ultimate, so your presentations are covered without any extra steps. You can change this setting in the transfer options before sending if you want a specific transfer to be non-recoverable.


On Ultimate you can set a custom expiry for any transfer, including choosing to keep it active indefinitely so the link never goes down on its own. Free and Starter plans cap expiry at 3 days and there is no option to extend this. If you would rather not manage expiry at all, setting a transfer to never expire is the simplest way to keep a presentation permanently accessible to everyone you share it with.


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