Thanks! This sorta makes sense when you think about it.
ColTom2
This option is only available if you are connecting to a Microsoft Exchange
Server mailbox. Otherwise, this feature is not available for POP3 or IMAP
accounts.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, ColTom2 asked:
| Hi Kathleen:
|
| You are the gal! Couldn't see the forest for the trees....
|
| BTW I tried the following procedures that I found online for MS
| Outlook 2003 and followed the Registry procedures exactly, but never
| could get the "Recover Deleted Items" to appear under the Tools
| Menu.My understanding is that MS Outlook 2007 has this feature built
| in to it. ***********************
| If you accidentally deleted items like Emails, contacts, calendar,
| tasks, etc from your mailbox using Outlook, you can recover them as
| they are first transferred to the Deleted Items folder of that
| mailbox. But even if you delete them from the Deleted Items folder
| you can still recover them. This feature is enabled by default in
| Outlook 2007 but if you are using 2003 then you'll have to modify
| your system registry.
| Enabling recovery of deleted items in Outlook 2003:
| 1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
| 2. Locate and click the following key in the registry:
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options
| 3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following
| registry value:
| Value name: DumpsterAlwaysOn
| Data type: DWORD
| Value data: 1
| 4. Close the Registry Editor.
| Now when you start Microsoft Outlook 2003 you'll be able to see a new
| option- Recover Deleted Items in the tools menu.
|
|
| Recovering deleted items in Outlook 2007:
| 1. In the folder from where you deleted the item, or in the Deleted
| Items folder, click 2. Recover Deleted Items on the Tools menu.
| Click an item and then click Recover Selected Items
| NOTE: If an item doesn't appear in the Recover Deleted Items dialog
| box then you can't recover it.
|
| ************************
| Do you have any idea as to why I couldn't get ":Recover Deleted
| Items to appear in the Tools Menu?
|
| Thanks for your great reply!
|
| ColTom2
|
|
|
| | Does your Deleted Items folder have a + sign beside it? Click on it to
| expand
| it. Folders don't go into the Deleted Items folder, they become
| subfolders of
| the Deleted Items folder. If you haven't emptied your Deleted Items
| folder then they should still be there.
|
| If you connect to an Exchange server and your Exchange Admin has
| enabled DIR (Deleted Item Retention), you can recover the items
| depending on how long DIR
| is set for. I think the default is 7 days, if I remember correctly.
| Open your
| Deleted Items folder. Click on Tools > Recover Deleted Items. A list
| of everything you've deleted that has not been removed from the
| server will be there.
|
| If you use a PST, then read the following:
|
|
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/restoredeleteditemsfromanoutlookpst.htm
|
| Good luck!
|
|
|| The Inbox sub folder that was deleted was not in the Deleted Items
|| folder,
|| as that is of course the first place that I looked. I wish that it
|| were so simple.
||
|| Afterwards I purposely deleted other named folders and none
|| appeared in the Deleted Items folder when deleted. The ones that I
|| purposely deleted asked if I wanted to delete them etc. The other
|| sub folder that I inadvertently deleted never did ask for deletion
|| confirmation. None ever appeared in the Deleted Items folder after
|| deletion.
||
|| Thanks
||
||
|| ||
||| I inadvertently deleted a sub folder which had previously been
||| created to Inbox. I was in the process of creating the same folder
||| name and put it under Personal Folders instead of Inbox when I
||| deleted both the new folder and old sub folder,
|||
||| How can I recover the deleted old sub folder to Inbox? The more
||| specifics the better.
||
|| Open Deleted Items, locate the deleted folder, click and drag it
|| back to Inbox.
|| --
|| Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
