Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Recovered deleted, and removed from the Deleted Items folder, easily from within Outlook 2007 (aka another example of “deleted isn’t really deleted”)

Software for Students - How-to Restore and Find Deleted Email in Outlook 2007

“Help!!  I permanently deleted an email I need, I need to find an email I deleted, how to restore a deleted email.  If you’re in trouble, here’s a quick solution for retrieving email from the dumpster in Outlook 2007.

When you delete an email from one of your folders it first goes into the Deleted Items folder.  To permanently delete an item, it has to be deleted from the Deleted Items folder and is sent to the dumpster.  If you’ve sent an important item to the dumpster, hope is not lost.  You can restore the items using the following procedure:

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Let’s see… I’ve only been an Outlook boy since… um… forever and I never looked at this feature? sigh.

If you’re using Outlook 2007 and connected to Exchange (it doesn’t seem to work for stand alone PST’s) try this. It may be pretty revealing…

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