How to Recover Recently Deleted Mail
If you've accidentally deleted an email you need, don't panic right away. It is possible for you to recover deleted emails very easily in most major mail programs. All you must do is locate the email in the trash folder and move it out of the folder and into an existing folder.
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Instructions
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Recovering Email in Gmail and Yahoo!
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Sign into your Gmail or Yahoo! account and click on the "Trash" folder, located in the left hand navigation panel. In Google, if you do not immediately see the "Trash" folder, click on the "More" link, located below the "Contacts" link
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Find the deleted message you want to recover. You can sort the "Trash" folder by sender, subject or date to help you find the deleted email.
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Check the box next to the email you wish to recover. Click the "Move to," button in the navigation bar. A menu will pop down with various folders in your inbox. Choose which folder you want to move the recovered email to by clicking the folder name. The email will be moved to that folder and out of the trash.
Recovering Email in Outlook
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Open your Outlook program. Locate the "Deleted Items" folder in your Outlook account, which should be located in the folder list on the left hand side of the page. If your folder list is not on the left side of your page, click on the "Go" button on the menu, and click on the "Deleted Files" option.
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Find the email you want to recover. You can sort the deleted emails by subject, sender or recipient, date, or even size so that you can find the email you need more easily.
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Click on the email you want to recover and drag it to the folder that you want it in. For instance, drag it to your inbox, or to another folder for organization. This will automatically restore the email. Alternately, click on the email you want to move, right click, select "Move to," and choose the folder where you want to place the email.
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Tips & Warnings
For Google and Yahoo! deleted emails, if you have emptied your trash folder, this means that you have deleted your email forever and unfortunately cannot recover it. Outlook emails can be recovered even after they've been hard-deleted, but you must be connected to an exchange server.
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