Recovery of deleted messages

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Tom

Hello, I'm new to Outlook and asking for a novice friend. He uses
Outlook (not express) under XP. He managed to delete his inbox messages
by selecting messages and then using shift-delete. There was a dialog
that said something like are you sure you want to permanently delete
messages and he said yes. Upon realizing that he had selected all of
the messages instead of the few he had intended to select, he found that
undo was unavailable. He also has said "no" to the periodic messages in
the past that inquire about archiving. Does he have any recourse - or
are the messages gone forever? Would a system restore to a previous
date have any value here. Are there any temporary files that could be
recovered? The system has not been restarted since this event, nor has
the application been exited. Thanks in advance for any help, and yes,
this was a dumb thing to do.
 
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Galen

In Tom <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Hello, I'm new to Outlook and asking for a novice friend. He uses
Outlook (not express) under XP. He managed to delete his inbox
messages by selecting messages and then using shift-delete. There
was a dialog that said something like are you sure you want to
permanently delete messages and he said yes. Upon realizing that he
had selected all of the messages instead of the few he had intended
to select, he found that undo was unavailable. He also has said "no"
to the periodic messages in the past that inquire about archiving.
Does he have any recourse - or are the messages gone forever? Would
a system restore to a previous date have any value here. Are there
any temporary files that could be recovered? The system has not been
restarted since this event, nor has the application been exited.
Thanks in advance for any help, and yes, this was a dumb thing to do.

Well, as far as I know they're gone for good except in some rare
instances... There's some software that claims to do it. They'll want to
look for something that will recover PST files. To be honest I've never used
such a tool as this but it's worth a shot I suppose. (Did the friend have it
set to delete the messages from the server? If not then they may be able to
log on to the web interface and get their mail back that way simply by
marking it unread.)

Anyhow, this application says it can do it. I didn't find a free one.

http://www.recover-my-email.com/

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes
 
B

Brian Tillman

Tom said:
Hello, I'm new to Outlook and asking for a novice friend. He uses
Outlook (not express) under XP. He managed to delete his inbox
messages by selecting messages and then using shift-delete. There
was a dialog that said something like are you sure you want to
permanently delete messages and he said yes. Upon realizing that he
had selected all of the messages instead of the few he had intended
to select, he found that undo was unavailable. He also has said "no"
to the periodic messages in the past that inquire about archiving.
Does he have any recourse - or are the messages gone forever? Would
a system restore to a previous date have any value here. Are there
any temporary files that could be recovered? The system has not been
restarted since this event, nor has the application been exited.
Thanks in advance for any help, and yes, this was a dumb thing to do.

You can see if this helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/restoredeleteditemsfromanoutlookpst.htm
 

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