Is it possible to recover mail folders that vanish?

[Duncan-Maryland]

I made an insanely stupid mistake. I moved all IMAP mail folders to my
Outlook 2003 main "Inbox" folder. This of course deleted those folders from
the IMAP mail server. I then wanted to convert the Outlook email account to
be a Pop account and thought I knew what I was doing (I had done it before ).
I opened the Windows XP Control Panel and then opened the "Mail" item,
clicked on "Profiles", removed the current IMAP profile and created a new POP
profile in its place. Then when I opened Outlook all previous mail folders
had disappeared without a trace. Is there *any* residue of those folders on
my hard disk that can be recovered, one way or another?

Thanks

 

[DL]

Within Outlook, File>Open>Data File, are any others shown?

Have you logged on to your imap, web mail account, normally you have to
purge, within Outlook, to remove from the server

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

go to file, data file management and click Open folder - do you see the old
pst there? if so, click the Add button on the data file management dialog.

Assuming the items you moved from the imap acct were not purged, they
should still be online. POP3 accounts won't see them.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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