Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Recover Emails from Emptied Deleted Items Folder of MS Outlook

Emptying the ‘Deleted Items’ folder of your Outlook, is always a good practice. By doing so, you erase all unnecessary Outlook item and thus, make it light and neat. However, there can be times when after completing a regular cleanup of your ‘Deleted Items’ folder, you realize that you have deleted an important email.

Well, don’t panic even in such situation! Your deleted data remains on your Exchange Server for a certain period after emptying the ‘Deleted Items’ folder. The time period for which your deleted item data remains on your Exchange Server is called ‘Retention Period’; and it depends upon the settings made by your Exchange administrator. Therefore, if your deleted emails are under retention period then you can recover them easily through simple recovery steps.

Steps that are involved to recover email items from empty Deleted Items folder are as follows:

Select ‘Deleted Items’ folder.
Go to Tools and select ‘Recover Deleted Items’
A window displaying all emails deleted from the ‘Deleted Items’ folder, which are under the retention period opens.
If you find your emails there, then select these emails from this list to recover and click ‘Recover Selected Items’ and they will be back in your ‘Deleted Items’ folder.

However, if you cannot see your deleted emails in this list, then the retention period must have crossed. Well, at such situation, using an efficient third-party deleted email recovery software can do the needful. Reliable email recover tool recovers your emails even after they have exceeded their retention period. Moreover, effective tool restores the formatting of RTF and HTML messages after recovery and recovers emails with their complete attachments.

One such software is Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery. This proficient software recovers lost or deleted emails from MS Outlook as well as MS Outlook Express. The tool recovers deleted emails, attachments, contacts, notes, etc. This software is one of the risk free tools as it recovers deleted emails intact without changing their formatting or causing damage to the original data. Moreover, the software provides a list of all recoverable emails after completion of the scan. You can select any specific email from this list and see its preview at the bottom of this interface. With all these features, the software maintains a log report. This log report records the entire information of all the tasks performed during the recovery process and even lets you save this report at any desired location in your system.