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How to retrieve deleted emails

Deleted an important email? Want to know if there is a way to retrieve emails if you have accidentally deleted them? If you have a good email recovery program, deleted emails can be recovered very easily. Success is more or less guaranteed as long as you act quickly when you realise that you've deleted an email that you need, by mistake.

Retrieving deleted emails from Outlook

When you delete an email, it is usually moved to a "Deleted Items" folder (as in MS Outlook) or similar folder ("Trash" in Gmail, Yahoo etc...) Deleted Items folder This "Deleted Items" folder works like a Recycle Bin for emails, and it gives you a short window of opportunity to retrieve accidentally deleted email messages. Even if you've deleted the email from your Deleted Items folder, retrieving the email is still possible. Deletion procedure When you delete an email, it goes to Deleted Items. There, the message is merely copied to the Deleted Items folder and is then, deleted from your Inbox. When an email is deleted, it is not physically erased. The data is just marked as having been deleted, so the email program you are using doesn't display it. The deleted email doesn't get overwritten until the mail program cleans up or compacts its database. Therefore, there is a window of opportunity of a short time frame, during which it is possible to retrieve deleted emails.

Email recovery software

Alternatively, you can use email recovery software to retrieve your emails from the operating system. This can be used after the deleted files section of your emails has been cleared. With programmes like Stellar (an email recovery tool), you will input the name of the email and the programme will then, find it for you. However, the key to retrieving deleted emails is not to wait too long or they will disappear!

How to retrieve deleted emails from Internet emails?

Select from the "Scan Specific Email Profile" drop-down box the email type that you need to retrieve. Using Data Recovery Pro, it is completely possible to recover accidentally deleted web-based email messages (such as Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail). However, the software will only be able to do this if you have previously opened and looked at the email message on your computer. This is because the message is cached to your computer and can be recovered as a HTML page.

Conclusion

To conclude, if you are recovering email files, then you have two options: one for the short term and one for the long term. If you remember in time, you can retrieve the email form the deleted box, or if it takes a while to come back to you, then a software programme can be used.

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