How to Recover a Deleted Email in Outlook

Nothing is worse than deleting an email either by accident or later discovering you shouldn’t have deleted it. There are many different types of email programs and each one has different approaches on ways they store your emails. Therefore, there are different ways to retrieve a deleted email. If you are trying to find a deleted email in outlook, there may be hope.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. First, if you are using Microsoft Outlook for your email uses, they provide different means to recover emails after you have permanently deleted them. Try looking through your deleted folder first for the email you are trying to recover.

2. If you email is not found in the deleted folder, go to the tools menu and click on “Recover Deleted Items.”

3. Click on the deleted item you are trying to recover and click the control key to select multiple items to recover.

4. Next, click on the “Recover Selected Items.” This will put the deleted emails back into your deleted items folder on Outlook. From this point, you will be allowed to move the deleted email to any other folder you desire.

5. In some cases, your deleted email may not be available to recover. This is due to the system administrator only allowing a certain amount of time for deleted items to stay on the server. If your email is not found using the “Recover Deleted Items” under the tool menu, then it may be necessary to purchase an email recovery software.

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