--- services/web/modules/history-migration/app/src/HistoryUpgradeHelper.js
+++ services/web/modules/history-migration/app/src/HistoryUpgradeHelper.js
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
+const _ = require('lodash')
+const fs = require('fs')
 const { ReadPreference, ObjectId } = require('mongodb')
 const { db } = require('../../../../app/src/infrastructure/mongodb')
 const Settings = require('@overleaf/settings')
+const logger = require('@overleaf/logger')

 const ProjectHistoryHandler = require('../../../../app/src/Features/Project/ProjectHistoryHandler')
 const HistoryManager = require('../../../../app/src/Features/History/HistoryManager')
@@ -8,6 +11,8 @@ const ProjectHistoryController = require('./ProjectHistoryController')
 const ProjectEntityHandler = require('../../../../app/src/Features/Project/ProjectEntityHandler')
 const ProjectEntityUpdateHandler = require('../../../../app/src/Features/Project/ProjectEntityUpdateHandler')
 const DocumentUpdaterHandler = require('../../../../app/src/Features/DocumentUpdater/DocumentUpdaterHandler')
+const { Doc } = require('../../../../app/src/models/Doc')
+const FileWriter = require('../../../../app/src/infrastructure/FileWriter')

 // Timestamp of when 'Enable history for SL in background' release
 const ID_WHEN_FULL_PROJECT_HISTORY_ENABLED =
@@ -340,9 +345,33 @@ async function anyDocHistoryIndexExists(project) {
   )
 }

+async function convertDeletedDocToFile(projectId, docId, userId, source, doc) {
+  // write the doc to a temporary file and upload to filestore
+  const tmpFilePath = await FileWriter.promises.writeLinesToDisk(
+    projectId,
+    doc.lines
+  )
+  await ProjectEntityUpdateHandler.promises.upsertFileWithPath(
+    projectId,
+    `/_deleted/${docId}/${doc.name}`,
+    tmpFilePath,
+    null,
+    userId,
+    source
+  )
+  // hard delete the original doc, otherwise it will get picked up again
+  // by readDeletedDocs in ProjectHistoryController and the final
+  // resync of the history will fail.
+  await db.docs.deleteOne({ _id: docId })
+  await db.docOps.deleteOne({ doc_id: docId })
+  // clean up the temporary file
+  await fs.promises.unlink(tmpFilePath)
+}
+
 async function convertLargeDocsToFile(projectId, userId) {
-  const docs = await ProjectEntityHandler.promises.getAllDocs(projectId)
   let convertedDocCount = 0
+  const docs = await ProjectEntityHandler.promises.getAllDocs(projectId)
+  // Convert large docs to files
   for (const doc of Object.values(docs)) {
     const sizeBound = JSON.stringify(doc.lines)
     if (docIsTooLarge(sizeBound, doc.lines, Settings.max_doc_length)) {
@@ -355,6 +384,39 @@ async function convertLargeDocsToFile(projectId, userId) {
       convertedDocCount++
     }
   }
+  // Convert deleted docs to files, these cannot be converted by
+  // ProjectEntityUpdateHandler so we do it manually
+  const docsCursor = Doc.find({
+    project_id: ObjectId(projectId),
+  })
+    .lean()
+    .cursor()
+  for await (const doc of docsCursor) {
+    // check whether the doc is present in the filetree instead of
+    // relying on the deletedAt property
+    const docExistsInFiletree = _.find(docs, existingDoc =>
+      existingDoc._id.equals(doc._id)
+    )
+    if (docExistsInFiletree || doc.inS3) {
+      continue
+    }
+    const sizeBound = JSON.stringify(doc.lines)
+    if (docIsTooLarge(sizeBound, doc.lines, Settings.max_doc_length)) {
+      const docId = doc._id.toString()
+      if (!_.isEmpty(doc.ranges)) {
+        throw new Error(`found too large deleted doc with ranges: ${docId}`)
+      }
+      logger.warn({ projectId, docId }, 'converting large deleted doc')
+      await convertDeletedDocToFile(
+        projectId,
+        doc._id,
+        userId,
+        'history-migration',
+        doc
+      )
+      convertedDocCount++
+    }
+  }
   return convertedDocCount
 }