"Jerald D Montgomery" <Jerald D (e-mail address removed)>
wrote in message
Hi,
My suggestion is to make a recycle bin for the deleted e-mail.
Where did you think all those mail items existed? In some real folder
(aka subdirectory) in their own separate files somewhere on your hard
drive? Everything shown in the folder tree and all items in Outlook are
stored in just one PST file. The "folders" are just a means of
providing hierachical structure within your local message store.
Deleting a mail item does not delete some file somewhere (so it can be
put into the Recycle Bin). It just marks that item within your message
store with a status of Deleted so Outlook won't display it anymore.
Items that are soft-deleted are moved into the Deleted Items folder
within your message store; i.e., they really haven't been deleted but
just moved to a different folder as a backup for those, um, accidents
(i.e., it's a diaper for users). When you delete an item from the
Deleted Items folder or use Shift+Del to hard delete an item, it still
exists within your message store but with a status of Deleted so Outlook
won't show it to you anymore. When you compact your message store, all
the delete-marked items get physically purged from the PST file.
To be in the Recycle Bin would mean that you deleted your entire message
store file (i.e., you lost it ALL in Outlook).
