how to restore a removed email account

[Guest]

I downloaded an entire email account onto my personal computer from the
company server using a VPN connection.
The company terminated my access since I left.
I decided to remove the email account on my Outlook since it kept sending
and receiving for the Microsoft Exchange Server, without realizing in the
tools this would completely remove the email folders.
Are they gone from my personal computer or can i retrieve them and how?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

If you still have the ost-file you can use a pst to ost convertor but note
that the e-mails are owned by the company; not you. When legal finds out...

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I downloaded an entire email account onto my personal computer from the
company server using a VPN connection.
The company terminated my access since I left.
I decided to remove the email account on my Outlook since it kept sending
and receiving for the Microsoft Exchange Server, without realizing in the
tools this would completely remove the email folders.
Are they gone from my personal computer or can i retrieve them and how?

 

[Guest]

Roady:
Let me clarify. My employer wouldn't mind me getting the emails back since
I'm still working from home in a limited scope. Do I search for the ost
files in Window Explorer by "*ost" search?
I was wondering if by using Tools, and then selecting "Remove Email
Account", then removing Microsoft Exchange Server account, I really did
delete the emails in that folder or if they still exist in a usable form in
the C drive. If you are saying they exist but have been modified to ost
files, I will search.
I was hoping they were just stored somewhere else.
So, does, "removing" an email account completely delete it from being used
again, or are you saying the files are now in an "ost" format?
I'm a newbie at this. Thanks!
[Your web site on Outlook is fantastic!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Note that the messages aren't modified to to ost-file; they are stored in a
ost-file. An ost-file is the database Outlook creates to store Outlook items
and some settings in to make them available off-line. Under some
circumstances the ost-file will remain (we call them orphaned) and it will
never hurt looking for them. Make sure you include hidden files and folders
in your search when you do.

If you are not actually terminated but are working from home it might be
handier to ask if they give you access again than (very likely)pay for a
utility that converts it.

"Your web site on Outlook is fantastic!"
Thanks!

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Roady:
Let me clarify. My employer wouldn't mind me getting the emails back since
I'm still working from home in a limited scope. Do I search for the ost
files in Window Explorer by "*ost" search?
I was wondering if by using Tools, and then selecting "Remove Email
Account", then removing Microsoft Exchange Server account, I really did
delete the emails in that folder or if they still exist in a usable form in
the C drive. If you are saying they exist but have been modified to ost
files, I will search.
I was hoping they were just stored somewhere else.
So, does, "removing" an email account completely delete it from being used
again, or are you saying the files are now in an "ost" format?
I'm a newbie at this. Thanks!
[Your web site on Outlook is fantastic!