Recovering Deleted Outlook Mail Attachments

[Jim G.]

I goofed. I attached a copy of a Word document which resided in My Documents
to an Outlook mail message I was editing. While editing the mail message, I
decided I needed to make changes to the Word document that was attached to
message. So I opened the attachment, made my changes and then Saved the
document.

I then went back to editing the e-mail message. When I was ready to send
it, I became confused, thinking that I had saved the changes to the original
Word document in the My Documents folder (which I should have done). So I
deleted the attachment and tried to reattach a new copy of what I thought was
the revised Word document in My Documents.

Of course, I realized a moment later what I had done: I had just attached
the original unrevised Word document and deleted the attached Word document
in which I had made all of the changes.

Is there any way to recover the Word document that I attached and saved only
as an attachment to my Outlook mail message? I have looked everywhere for a
temporary or back-up copy, but cannot find one.

Thanks,

 

[Roady [MVP]]

When editing an attachment this way, the working directory is the SecureTemp
folder. Whether it is still in that folder depends on the exact handling of
you thereafter. To locate and access that folder on your computer see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/securetemp.htm

 

[wangdong]

Try to recover the mail which has the attacnment before. You can try
Advanced Outlook Repair to solve the problem, by either converting it
into Outlook 2003 format ( http://www.datanumen.com/aor/problems/convert-2gb-pst.htm
), or splitting it into smaller pieces ( http://www.datanumen.com/aor/problems/split-2gb-pst.htm
)

http://www.datanumen.com/aor/ contains the detailed information about
Advanced Outlook Repair.

And you can also download a free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/aor.exe

W.Dong