Deleted E-mail Recovery

Emails have by far become the most important part of our personal and professional lives. That is why, Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express have become an integral part of our work life. Every day when we start our computer, especially in the office, the first thing we do is, check our mails. And mostly, we reply to them immediately, while others which need extra time, are marked or flagged, for reading and replying at a time, when we don’t have pressing work. Further, we do delete all the useless mails, also known as Junk mails. With a slew of Spam mails doing the rounds today,  there are a large number of mails that we delete daily, or weekly. To prevent accidental deletion of useful files, there is the added option of ‘Deleted Items folder’, in both the Microsoft email applications which allows us to recover deleted e-mails.

But when we are sure of the emails we do not want in our Outlook mailbox, like junk mails and Spam mails, we go ahead and delete them using Shift+Delete key combination. This way of deleting the files is also known as hard deleting a file. Another way of hard deleting files is by deleting the deleted files from the ‘Deleted Items folder’. But there are times, when along with the useless files, one or a few important files also get selected for deletion, and therefore get deleted, rather get ‘hard deleted’.

In such situations, for MS Office Outlook users, the only savior is archiving feature (i.e., in case your hard deleted files were archived before you deleted them). Archiving is a way of creating backups of old items like, emails, attachments, contacts, appointments, notes, journals, etc. Though, it is not necessary to create a backup manually as AutoArchive is a feature that allows you to backup files on the basis of default or specified archiving settings, automatically. Otherwise, you’ll have to recover deleted e-mails, by opting for third-party deleted mail recovery applications. These applications scan the entire PST file for all the items that have been deleted due to some reason or the other.

Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery is a reliable email restoration software that restores all the deleted PST items as PST, EML, and MSG files, and all deleted DBX e-mail files as .dbx and .eml files. Compatible with various Windows operating platforms including W7, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT4, this deleted mail recovery utility supports recovery of deleted emails that were created in MS Outlook emails 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000, and in Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x.

Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office Outlook store your precious emails, contacts, notes, tasks, journals, attachments, and other significant data in PST (Personal Storage Table) file. The PST file works like a database. It stores data in various folders, like Inbox, Outbox, and Sent Items. You can also add special folders to categorize your data. If you delete any mail from the PST file, it goes to the Deleted Items folder and you can restore the file from there, if required. However, in case you bypass the Deleted Items folder or empty the Deleted Items folder, the mail can not be restored. In such situations, deleted mail recovery solutions are required to get your precious emails recovered.

Since Outlook PST file works as a database, the data is restored within the file and an index is created to access it. The index points to every data item in the database. Index works as a file system and Microsoft Outlook uses it to locate and access data. In case the index is not working properly or damaged, the emails can not be accessed from the the PST file.

When you remove any email using the Shift + Delete button and bypassing the Deleted Items folder or emptying the Deleted Items folder, it is not deleted permanently by Outlook. Only the listing of the particular mail is removed from the index. The mail is still there in the PST file. However, it can not be accessed because Microsoft Outlook is unable to find the index entry of particular item.

In this cases, the space occupied by the deleted email is declared as ‘whitespace’. The mails are deleted permanently only when you Compact the PST file after removing the mail. Compacting the file recovers the whitespace and shrinks the PST file. If the Outlook data file has more than 20% of whitespace, it gets compacted automatically.

Recover Deleted Emails:

1. Restore accidentally deleted emails and other items from Deleted Items folder.
2. Restore PST file from backup.
3. Use third-party deleted email recovery software to scan the affected PST file and extract lost items from it.

The deleted mail recovery programs use powerful scanning techniques to ensure absolute recovery of deleted emails. They recover deleted email and offer secure and simple recovery with read-only conduct and attractive user interface.
Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery is an excellent solution to successfully recover your precious emails from PST file. The software works well with Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP), and 2000. It recoups emails, notes, tasks, contacts, attachments, rules, calendar entries, and all other PST file objects.

Are you using one Microsoft Outlook account on two different computers? Have you configured your Outlook in such a way that all you emails are received on two different addresses? You may face critical problems of calendar entry deletion in such configuration. When you remove a meeting request from one computer, it is deleted from other Outlook account as well. In such critical situations, you need to use Deleted Email Recovery solutions to recover lost meetings and other calendar entries.

As a practical example of this behavior, you may lose meeting requests from one system, if you remove from another one. The problem occurs generally if both the computers are connected to same MS Exchange Server mailbox. For instance, this scenario might include a laptop, which is using the Cached Exchange Mode, and one desktop computer, which is using Online mode. You can also consider the below scenario:

1. You receive one meeting request.
2. You make sure that the request exists in Inbox of both the system.
3. You start Outlook on your laptop.
4. You click the ‘Work Offline’ option on File menu.
5. You open a meeting request on your desktop computer, which is using the Online mode. Then, you click the Accept option.
6. You remove the meeting request from Inbox folder while you are offline on your laptop computer. Then, you update the modifications to Microsoft Exchange Server mailbox by clicking Send and Receive option.
7. You delete the meeting from Calendar.

In this case, the meeting request that is accepted on desktop computer is processed immediately. However, the meeting request, which is removed on laptop is synchronized later on. After completion of synchronization process, meeting request is also deleted from desktop computer.

In such critical situations, you must have a complete backup of your Microsoft Outlook PST file to restore data from it. However, in case the backup is not available or it is not updated, you may fall in critical situations that require deleted mail recovery to be fixed.

You can easily Recover Deleted Email using advanced and efficient third-party applications. The deleted email recovery software use advanced scanning techniques to thoroughly scan entire PST file and extract all deleted items from it. They are incorporated with self-explanatory and interactive graphical user interface to ensure easy recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery is the most comprehensive tool to recover deleted items from Microsoft Outlook PST file. The software successfully recovers emails, contacts, meeting request, calendar entries, and attachment. It works well with Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP), and 2000.

The Disk Cleanup utility in Windows systems is used to remove unwanted files and utilities from the hard disk. Using this tool on a regular basis speeds up your computer’s performance considerably apart from performing the usual clean-up process. However, sometimes this tool removes the archived emails from Outlook Express as well, which leads to utter chaos at times. In such cases, you should use in-built methods to recover deleted emails. If the methods are not enough, then you should use a third-party Deleted Email Recovery software to do the needful.

Consider a scenario wherein you are using Outlook Express 6.0 in your Windows XP system. You run the Disk Cleanup utility as part of your maintenance routine. When the process gets completed, you open Outlook Express and find that the Inbox folder has been cleaned up. You have no idea how that has happened.

Cause:

The root cause of this unfortunate situation is that you may have archived the Inbox emails. And during the Disk Cleanup process, those emails got cleaned up by the Disk Cleanup utility.

Resolution:

Although you have lost the emails due to the aforementioned reason, you should keep in mind the following precautions to avoid such instances in the future:

1.You should not archive the Inbox or Sent Items emails.
2.You should create user defined folders on your hard disk and store the emails on them.
3.You should regularly empty the Deleted Items folder.
4.You should compact the Outlook Express folders regularly.

Now, to recover the deleted emails, you should perform the following steps:

1.Search for *.bak files in Start | Search.
2.Locate the Outlook Express folders such as Archive, Inbox, etc wherein their corresponding files would be Archive.bak, Inbox.bak, and so on.
3.Rename the Archive.bak file as Archive.dbx. Repeat the procedure for other folders as well.
4.Start Outlook Express and see if the problem is resolved or not.

However, if the problem is persisting, do not feel disheartened as the deleted emails can still be recovered. However, in such cases you should use a third-party deleted mail recovery software to recover deleted emails. Such deleted mail recovery tools are completely read-only in nature that recover deleted email without overwriting on the existing data.

Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery is a deleted mail recovery software that is used to recover deleted email from MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. In addition, this deleted email recovery software Recover Deleted Email from Outlook Express 5.x and 6.0. It is able to restore most of other Outlook objects such as attachments, contacts, tasks, journals, calendar items, etc. Also, this deleted mail recovery preserves the formatting of the RTF and HTML messages. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

Microsoft Outlook saves all its information, such as, e-mails, calendar/journal entries, appointments, tasks, notes, and more in a .pst file. The data saved in this file can be exported, imported, deleted, compacted, backed up as per the requirements of an Outlook user. While deletion of data from a PST file can be performed manually, there are various situations when the data automatically deletes from the PST file. This generally happens when the file gets corrupted due to a virus attack. In most of these situations, the deleted data does not move to ‘Deleted Items’ folder, making it permanently inaccessible for the Outlook user. To access deleted data in such situations, the user needs to restore data from an updated backup. However, in the absence of an up-to-date backup or backup falling short of restoring the data, the user needs to opt for an advanced third-party Deleted Email Recovery application ( www.recover-deleted-email.net.

To illustrate the above scenario, consider a practical situation wherein you log into your MS Outlook account and view the following:

· All your e-mails after a particular date (for eg. 15th December 2009) have been deleted.

· All your Contacts are also missing.

In addition, you do not find either of the above in the ‘Deleted Items’ folder of your MS Outlook. These emails and contacts get deleted without any warning message.

Cause:

The root cause for deletion of missing mails and contacts is severe virus attack.

Resolution:

To resolve the above problem and to access deleted e-mails and contacts, you will need to follow the below mentioned steps:

1. Copy the deleted data from an updated and valid backup.

2. But, in the absence of backup or backup restoring deficient information, use a commercial Deleted Email Recovery software.

Such Deleted Mail Recovery utilities use effective scanning and recovery techniques that scan the PST file to recover deleted data. Competent in recovering almost all deleted data, the recovery utilities are built with Outlook-style interface, which makes them easy-to-understand, and does not require any prior technical knowledge.

Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery is a safe utility that comprehensively recoups almost all deleted PST file items, such as, e-mails, contacts, and more. Compatible with almost all versions of MS Outlook, including 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000, the Deleted Mail Recovery software is designed for Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

Microsoft Outlook users send, receive, reply, and forward e-mails to communicate regarding their personal and professional matters. These e-mails can also contain attachment(s), such as, a word document, spreadsheets, .txt files, and more. However, before downloading the attachments on the system, the user should scan it with a powerful anti-virus software. This allows the user to prevent all the virus-infection issues. However, if the user forgets to scan the document or the anti-virus software is unable to detect the virus, then it might leave the user in serious problems. One such problem is deletion of e-mails from the PST file. To overcome such situations, the user needs to restore all the deleted e-mails from an updated backup file. But in absence of a valid backup file, the user needs to search for a third-party Deleted Email Recovery software that can recover all your deleted e-mails.

To illustrate the above problem, consider a practical scenario where you receive an e-mail with attachment. You download the attachment and save it in your system. However, now when you reply to any mail saved in your MS Outlook, then that e-mail gets automatically deleted. The same happens when you forward an e-mail. In addition, the deleted e-mail(s) are also not visible in the ‘Deleted Items’ folder.

Cause:

The root cause for the deletion of e-mails is fatal virus attack. The attachment that you downloaded contained a deadly virus that is deleting the e-mails.

Resolution:

To resolve the above problem, scan your system with a good anti-virus software. However, to access the deleted e-mails, follow the below steps:

1. Restore the e-mails from an updated backup.

2. In case of backup unavailability, recover the e-mails by using a commercial Deleted Email Recovery software.

Such recovery tools perform Deleted Mail Recovery by using high-end recovery algorithms. The recovered e-mails can be restored at default or new location. These tools come with deleted emails for even password-protected files. Such utilities do not modify the original PST file, making the recovery process absolutely safe.

Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery( www.recover-deleted-email.net is a recovery tool that assures complete recovery of deleted e-mails, calendar entries, contacts, and all MS Outlook components. Compatible with MS Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000, the Deleted Mail Recovery tool restores data as .eml, .msg, or .pst file. The software is designed for Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000 operating systems.

Microsoft Outlook contacts can be synced with your iPhone device using iTunes application. At each sync, changes performed to iPhone stored contacts are reflected in corresponding contacts of Outlook and vice-versa. But there have been several instances in which Outlook users have lost their important contacts after syncing with iPhone (one of the them is described later). Such circumstances necessitate that Outlook users should have a valid backup to restore the deleted contacts or else, they should opt for a Deleted Email Recovery utility.

One of the typical examples of contact deletion from Outlook is as follows. An Outlook user observes that some of its Outlook contacts are appearing with incorrect information. So, in order to make required corrections, he/she decides to delete them from Outlook and get them re-written by syncing Outlook with an iPhone device, while considering that the deleted contacts still exist on iPhone.

Next, when the user tries to sync between Outlook and iPhone for contacts, the operation doesn’t work as expected. This time, all the contacts from iPhone and Outlook get deleted for no apparent reason. This occurs even when all the options of advanced section were disabled.

Such scenarios can bring undesired data loss problems to an Outlook user.

Solution

To isolate the above and similar problems, one needs to consider the following possible solutions:

You can check the deleted contacts in ‘Deleted Items’ folder. The folder stores deleted Outlook items until you intentionally remove them or empty the folder.
In case, the ‘Deleted Items’ folder doesn’t contain the items (because of some settings or emptying the folder), you need to access a backup of contacts to restore them.
If none of the above methods works, a Deleted Mail Recovery application can be of great help.

A Deleted Email Recovery tool can scan and restore all deleted contacts, e-mails, and other objects that are stored in Outlook’s data files- PST. These utilities are user-friendly and safe. In addition, you can use these products in any case of accidental or intentional deletion of PST file objects from Outlook.

Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery( www.recover-deleted-email.net is high-end utility that recovers deleted Outlook PST objects, including contacts, e-mails, notes, calendars etc. This Deleted Mail Recovery application supports MS Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000, the software incorporates safe scanning algorithms plus an easy-to-operate user interface.

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