Accidently deleted folder in Windows mail recovery help

[gary Baldwin]

Would appreciate some advice please. My wife deleted her sub folder with
loads of subfolders within it. I cannot locate the deleted folder(s)
anywhere. They are not in the recycle bin or deleted items folder in mail. I
have spent hours and hours searching on google for an answer. Is the folder
recoverable?
Please help.
thank you in advance

 

[mac]

Would appreciate some advice please. My wife deleted her sub folder with
loads of subfolders within it. I cannot locate the deleted folder(s)
anywhere. They are not in the recycle bin or deleted items folder in mail.
I have spent hours and hours searching on google for an answer. Is the
folder recoverable?
Please help.
thank you in advance

Very doubtful, try http://www.recuva.com/ it may work?

 

[gazza]

No luck with that recuver software.Don't really understand what the file
would be called that I'm looking for. Would it still have same name as the
main folder, or would it end up as hundreds of individual files?
Any other suggestions please? i just cannot understand how a whole folder
can with loads of subfolders and hundreds of messages can just disappear
like that.

 

[Guest]

A few more files than the number of messages contained.

Email messages have assorted names ending in .eml , one per message, with no
direct relation of the rest of the name to the message contents.

News messages have assorted names ending in .nws , one per message, with no
direct relation of the rest of the name to the message contents.

I suspect that folders have names ending in .fol , and that a folder file is
needed to identify what its contents are. I'm not sure if the rest of the
file name is related to the name of that folder. I also suspect that
losing a folder file will hide all of its contents and subfolders, even
if their files are not also lost.

Installing the recuver software is likely to have overwritten at least
some of those files, making their contents permanently gone.

Some types of errors move some of these files into the folder tree
with the name Recovered Messages, so you may want to look
there if you now have such a folder or if one is automatically
created in the future.

Robert Miles

 

[Steve Cochran]

Search for *.eml and locate the directories that are found and they
correspond to the folders in WinMail. You can also search for the
directories (include hidden and OS files). See also the section on WinMail
here: www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

steve