How to Recover Deleted Folder's Email Items in Outlook?

Outlook email items can be deleted using different methods. You can click the email in Information Viewer area and choose options, like pressing Shift+Delete key, dragging the item to Deleted Items folder, clicking Delete button from Edit menu etc. In latter two options, the email is not permanently deleted but instead becomes a member of Deleted Items folder until you delete it from there or empty the folder. However, if you permanently delete an email without realizing its importance, data loss steps in. To restore it, you should use your last backup. But in case of backup unavailability, you need a third-party solution for Deleted Email Recovery.

Consider a situation when you delete a complete folder from Outlook. You right-click the folder in the Folders List and choose to delete it by clicking 'Delete from the menu. After this, when you view the Deleted Items folder to view its email items, they are not visible.

Note: The foldername represents the name of folder being deleted.

Cause

By default, when you delete the folder, its items are not moved to Deleted Items folder but instead the folder becomes a subfolder in the Deleted Items folder.

If the subfolder is not visible too, you might have deleted it from Deleted Items folder as well or emptied the Deleted Items folder. The folders gets automatically emptied at each exit from Outlook if you have configured the 'Empty the Deleted Items folder upon exiting' setting.

Solution

If the Deleted Items folder has not been emptied or the subfolder has not been deleted, you can open the subfolder and restore the required emails from it.

But if you cannot restore it, you should use your backup.

To restore the permanently deleted email when no suitable backup is available, you need to Recover Deleted Email using commercial applications.

Deleted Email Recovery software are safe solutions for recovering deleted emails from an Outlook .pst file. These utilities are equipped with easy to comprehend interface and powerful scanning algorithms that enable complete data recovery of lost emails. The software run through secure installation. You can use them in any instance of accidental email deletion from Outlook.

Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery is a comprehensive recovery solution to scan, locate and recover deleted Outlook PST emails. The software uses advanced algorithms to Recover Deleted Email. It supports Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is a non-destructive tool that preserves the original formatting and contents of deleted emails.