Microsoft Outlook: Restore Deleted Emails
When dealing with a large number of emails, a can make a mistake and delete an important email. You can also delete correspondence that you initially consider unimportant, but whose information contained will be necessary for the in the future. In this case, the question of how to recover deleted emails becomes relevant. Let's find out how to recover deleted correspondence in Microsoft Outlook.
Restore from the recycle bin
The easiest way to recover emails that have been sent to the recycle bin. The recovery process can be done directly through the Microsoft Outlook interface.
In the list of folders for the email from which the message was deleted, find the "Deleted" section. Click on it.
A list of deleted emails opens before us. Choose the one you want to recover. Click the right mouse button. In the context menu select "Move" and "Other folder".
In the window that will appear, select the original folder where the email was located before it was deleted, or any other directory where you want to restore it. After selecting, click the "OK" button.
After that, the email will be restored, and will be available for further manipulation with it, in the folder that the specified.
Recovering Hardly Deleted Emails
There are deleted emails not appearing in the "Deleted" folder. It may be because the has deleted an individual item from the "Deleted" folder, or has completely deleted this directory, or if the has permanently deleted the message without moving it to the "Deleted" folder using the key combination Shift + Del . These types of emails are called hard deletions.
But, only at first glance, that deletion is irretrievable. In fact, it is possible to recover even deleted emails in the way mentioned above, but an important requirement to do so is to enable the Exchange service.
Go to the Windows Start menu, and in the search form type regedit. Click on the found result.
After that, navigate to the Windows Registry Editor. We turn to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINENSOFTWARENMicrosoftNExchangeNClientNOptions. If any of the folders are missing, manually fill in the path by adding directories.
Right-click on the empty space in the Options folder. In the contextual menu that appears, go successively to "New" and "DWORD Parameter".
In the created parameter field, type "DumpsterAlwaysOn", and press ENTER on the keyboard. Then double-click on the item.
In the open window, in the "Value" field enter one, and the "Calculation system" parameter changes to the "Decimal" position. Click on the "OK" button.
Close Registry Editor and open Microsoft Outlook. If the program was open, reload it. Navigate to the folder from which the email was deleted, then go to the Folder section of the menu.
Click on the "Restore Deleted Items" ribbon icon in the form of the trash can with an arrow coming out of it. You are in the "Cleaning" group. The icon was previously inactive, but after the registry manipulation described above, it became available.
In the window that will open, select the email to be restored, mark it and click the "Restore selected items" button. Afterwards, the email will be restored to its original directory.
As we can see, there are two types of email recovery: recovery from trash and recovery after hard erase. The first method is very simple and intuitive. To perform a recovery procedure using the second option, you need to perform a series of preliminary actions.
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