Email Recovery In Outlook
When you accidentally delete an email message from your Outlook.com email, you can recover those items if they're still in your Deleted Items or Junk Email folder, and in some cases you can even recover items after the Deleted Items folder is emptied.
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Items removed from your Deleted Items folder are recoverable for 30 days.
Email is automatically removed from the Junk Email folder after 30 days and is not recoverable.
If you don't see the deleted messages you want to recover, they have probably been permanently removed from the Deleted Items folder or Junk Email folder. We don't recommend that you use either of these folders to store your messages. If you want to store your messages in folders other than your Inbox, see Working with message folders.
It's not possible to recover messages deleted from children's accounts. This way, parents can be confident that when they delete messages from their children's accounts, they stay deleted.
You must use your Outlook.com account to keep it active. This means you must sign in to your Outlook.com inbox at least once in a one-year period, otherwise we will close your Outlook.com inbox for you and all email will be deleted. You must sign in at least once in a five-year period to keep your Microsoft account and associated Services active. If you don’t sign in during this time, we'll assume your Microsoft account is inactive and will close it for you. Read more.
Recover email that’s still in your Deleted Items or Junk Email folder
When you delete an email message, contact, calendar item, or task, it's moved to the Deleted Items folder. If you don't see a message in the Deleted Items folder, check the Junk Email folder.
In the left pane, select the Deleted Items folder or the Junk Email folder.
Note: Contents of deleted folders are only visible once you expand the Deleted Items folder:
Do one of the following:
Deleted Items folder: Select the message you want to recover. To recover all messages, select the circle by Deleted Items and then select Restore.
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You can only select all if all messages are visible. This is to prevent accidental actions on messages you cannot see.
Ctrl+Click selects individual messages, Shift+Click selects everything between two clicks.
You can't restore messages that have been deleted from your Deleted Items folder.
Messages that were in a deleted folder can only be restored by selecting Move to and choosing a folder that's not been deleted.
Junk Email folder: Select the message you want to recover, and select Not junk.
Recover email that’s been removed from your Deleted Items folder
If you can't find an item in the Deleted Items folder, the next place to look is the Recoverable Items folder.
Note: You can't access the Recoverable Items folder if you're using a mobile browser. To access the Recoverable Items folder, please use a PC or Mac.
In the left pane, select the Deleted Items folder.
At the top of the message list, select Recover items deleted from this folder.
Select the items you want to recover, and select Restore.
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You can only select all if all messages are visible. This is to prevent accidental actions on messages you cannot see.
Ctrl+Click selects individual messages, Shift+Click selects everything between two clicks.
Where do recovered items go? The items you select to recover will be restored to their original folders when possible. If an original folder no longer exists, items will be restored as follows:
Messages go to your inbox.
Calendar items go to your calendar.
Contacts go to your contacts folder.
Tasks go to your tasks folder.
Stop Outlook.com from emptying your Deleted Items folder each time you sign out
Outlook.com might empty your Deleted Items folder each time you sign out. To change this:
At the top of the page, select Settings > View all Outlook settings.
Select Message handling.
Under When signing out, uncheck the box next to Empty my deleted items folder.
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Today with this article, I will tell you three techniques to recover lost or even deleted Outlook emails. These manual procedures will surely help you out in recovering deleted or lost Outlook emails in Windows 7, 8, 9 10 and even on other MS Windows OS versions.
I receive a lot of questions regarding recovery of lost or deleted Outlook emails and many of my readers have no idea on how to restore the emails after deletion.
When you intentionally or unintentionally delete an item or an email from your Outlook, there are chances that you will be able to restore the files. The first place to look for your deleted files is in the ‘Deleted Items’ folder and if somehow, you cannot find the file or email there then check it out in ‘Recoverable Items’ folder.
However there are certain things which you need to keep in mind before this type of MS Outlook email recovery or restoration.
- You can recover deleted Outlook emails if it is still in ‘Deleted Items’ folder
- But unfortunately, recovering your data if it has been permanently deleted is hard and need much more expertise.
Note: The first two techniques will primarily focus on recovery from normal deletion wherever the third method will show you how you can recover Outlook emails which are lost or have been permanently deleted.
Also Read: How to Repair Corrupt Outlook Personal Folder PST File
Steps To Recover Lost or Deleted Outlook Mails That’s Still In Deleted Items Folder
Step 01: Launch MS Outlook and click on ‘Deleted Items’ folder as shown in the image.
Step 02: Browse and locate the email that you have deleted. Right on the file – Move – other Folder
Step 03: To transfer it to Inbox, click on ‘Inbox’ and click ‘Ok’
Step 04: Apart from email, you may also use this technique to restore other mailbox items.
To recover contact: Right click on the file – Move – Contacts
To recover a calendar item: Right click on the file – Move – Calendar
To recover a task item: Right click on the file – Move – Tasks
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Steps To Recover Lost or Deleted Outlook Mails If It’s Not In Deleted Items Folder
If your deleted items are not there in ‘Deleted Items’ folder then there are chances that it has been permanently deleted or it is in ‘Recoverable Items’ folder. This folder is basically a hidden folder and file which are deleted mostly go to this folder when you have done any of these following steps:
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- Have somehow deleted any item from Deleted items folder
- Permanently deleted any email or data by pressing Shift+Delete
- Emptied deleted items folder
However you may follow the below steps to recover or restore permanently deleted Outlook emails
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Step 01: Launch MS Outlook and go to your email folder list
Step 02: Click on ‘Deleted Items’
Step 03: Now go to ‘Home’ & click on click ‘Recover Deleted Items From Server’
Step 04: Now browse and select the file that you want to recover and click on ‘Restore Selected Items’ and then click ‘Ok’
Note: When you recover an email from ‘Recoverable Items’ folder then the item automatically moves to ‘Deleted Item’ folder. And to restore that file from ‘Deleted Item’ folder, you may check out my first technique for a detailed step by step guide.
Also Read: The Most Common Outlook Errors and How to Fix Them
Recover Lost or Deleted Outlook Mails With A Professional Software
However there are certain situations, where you might not even find the files in ‘Recoverable Items’ folder then the only way to restore those deleted MS Outlook emails is by using a professional software.
One of the software that I have been using for last couple of years is Outlook PST Repair.
It is one of the most advanced and efficient software which not only helps you to restore your deleted emails but it also supports recovery of corrupt MS Outlook PST files. It is also known as one of the best online tools to restore emails, contacts, calendars, tasks and other mailbox items. However the best part of this software is that it doesn’t harm your original data, so keeping your data safe from any types of changes and loss. Aryson Outlook PST Repair has an inbuilt advanced recovery algorithm with a high compatibility ration with all MS Outlook and MS Windows version.
Unfortunately, there is one major drawback of using this application and that is, it doesn’t support Linx and MAC Operating system.
So here is how you can easily recover lost or deleted Outlook mails.
Hope the guide was helpful.