Tuesday, April 12, 2011

How to Restore Deleted Emails, Contacts and Other Items in MS Outlook ?

MS Outlook is an email application developed by Microsoft for Windows users. This personal information manager utility provides many features to users for managing their information effectively and can be used as a stand alone application. Microsoft Outlook uses a personal folder file (.pst) to store the user's data such as E-mails, calenders, the to-do list, notes, and other items. It is recommended you to create a backup copy of the outlook.pst file to ward off the danager of the losing e-mails and other important items. This method will also help you to overcome the corruption situation of PST file and restoring deleted e-mails, contacts and other data from the updated backup is very easy.

Restoring Outlook Data from a Backup :

In ordrer to retrieve and restore your outlook contacts, e-mails and other items from a copy of personal folder file (.pst), just follow these simple steps:

  • Go to File --> Import and Export option from the menu bar in MS Outlook.
  • Click on Import from another program or file option
  • Click Next
  • Highlight the Outlook Personal Folder File (.pst) and click Next
  • Browse the path to choose the backup copy of .pst file and make ensure that you have made selection on Replace duplicates with items imported, option
  • Click Next again
  • Click on Finish to complete the Import Process

Many times with the heavy and bulk amount of e-mails lying in your mail box, the Outlook becomes slow and it also increases the chances of corrupting the PST (personal storage table) files. So, in order to maintain the working speed of the Outlook, it sometimes become important to delete the old, and unnecessary mails. While deleting the mails in bulk, many times it happens that some of your important files also get deleted along with the unimportant files. This results in a serious case of data loss. In such cases a backup of the emails can come to the rescue to get back the deleted mails.

Consider a situation if there is no proper backup is available and you are also not able to restore the deleted emails from 'Deleted Item Folder' option then you need to go for third party deleted email recovery tool such as Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery software.

Stellar Deleted Email Recovery tool is designed to recover deleted emails and other items from MS Outlook. It has the ability to retrieve and restore the lost data in its prior structure. This Deleted E-mail recovery software can recover password protected and encrypted PST files in few steps. The tool is compatible with MS Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000 and supports Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

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