Recovery of Deleted Emails

[Guest]

I deleted a bunch of emails from a PST file and emptied the Deleted Items
folder. The PST still shows as being the same size (over 550mb) - is there
any tool I can use to recover those emails I deleted?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I deleted a bunch of emails from a PST file and emptied the Deleted
Items folder. The PST still shows as being the same size (over
550mb) - is there any tool I can use to recover those emails I
deleted?

This may or may not work...

http://www.sparnaaij.net/howto/restoredeleteditemsfromanoutlookpst.htm

You really ought to be making regular backups of your PST file and all your
data anyway.

 

[Guest]

I agree about the backup - my bad planning.
I was archiving emails from last year but wanted to keep the structure of my
PST (lots of subfolders).
I used the Copy command to take a set of folders from 1 PST to a new PST.
I went to the new PST (WITHOUT VERIFYING THAT IT COPIED INSTEAD OF WHAT IT
DID - MOVE) and deleted the contents of each folder and emptied the deleted
folder.

I then went back to the original PST and found that it MOVED instead of
COPIED the data.

Well, saying all of that, I am screwed. The 550mb file is now 3.4mb, before
attempting your solution.

I do really appreciate your suggestion though. Thank you.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I agree about the backup - my bad planning.
I was archiving emails from last year but wanted to keep the
structure of my PST (lots of subfolders).
I used the Copy command to take a set of folders from 1 PST to a new
PST.
I went to the new PST (WITHOUT VERIFYING THAT IT COPIED INSTEAD OF
WHAT IT DID - MOVE) and deleted the contents of each folder and
emptied the deleted folder.

I then went back to the original PST and found that it MOVED instead
of COPIED the data.

Well, saying all of that, I am screwed. The 550mb file is now 3.4mb,
before attempting your solution.

I do really appreciate your suggestion though. Thank you.

I'm sorry to hear about all this - sounds like quite a major loss. When you
want to copy stuff - right-click & hold, drag & release. Choose Copy.

For backups, you could get a USB attached hard drive & use it for easy
backups. If you don't want to use NTBackup or don't have an OS that supports
it, just make sure all your files are in a single folder w/subfolders, such
as c:\data\outlook (etc), and use a batch file to run the copies over to the
USB drive. I've done this for friends in the past using robocopy from the
resource kit, but xcopy works too. And since everything you really care
about will be in that one logically named & easy to find folder, it's really
easy. Of course, your apps/files need to be closed before running this.

 

[JNPT]

I they were important for you why did you emptied the folder? Was it by
mistake?
You may try third-party tool to recover deleted emails:
http://www.recover-deleted-email

 

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