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| Thread ID: 25015 | 2002-09-24 01:21:00 | Restoring accidentally deleted folder in Outlook Express | funkster (1914) | Press F1 |
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| 82380 | 2002-09-24 01:21:00 | How can you restore an accidentally deleted folder in Outlook Express? cheers.... |
funkster (1914) | ||
| 82381 | 2002-09-24 01:25:00 | If you're lucky it will have become a sub-folder of the Deleted Items folder; if so, just drag it back to the Local Folders folder. | antmannz (28) | ||
| 82382 | 2002-09-24 01:33:00 | Ain't that lucky...... should rephrase question, how can I restore a folder that was accidentally deleted using shift+delete (so it doesn't go to the deleted items folder). I could write a novel on how this came to pass, but for the sake of the self esteem of my poor technophobe mother who just wants her email back, I won't. I should never have shown her shift+delete so its really all my fault..... ;-) |
funkster (1914) | ||
| 82383 | 2002-09-24 01:49:00 | This (www.mindspring.com) MIGHT help... goes on about dbx files, etc... hope it does help! Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 82384 | 2002-09-24 05:14:00 | This MIGHT help... goes on about dbx files, etc... hope it does help! I know this was meant for someone else but it has solved my problem. Found it very useful Lohsing. Explained a few mysteries for me too. Many thanks Iris |
Iris (475) | ||
| 82385 | 2002-09-24 06:32:00 | Is is the folder or the folder contents you want back? Putting back a "folder" is easy if it is for say "Aunty fannys emails". Right click on Local folders, select New Folder, called it "Aunty fannys emails", then select where you want the folder to go eg. under inbox or just under Local folders, click OK. You can then right click the new folder and select add to outlook bar and a big icon folder will appear with the other inbox, deleted items etc icons. Not sure how you would retrieve the "contents" of a deleted folder if that is what went missing. Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 82386 | 2002-09-24 06:42:00 | Oh wow, really?? Thanks for that Iris! Just been banging my head quite often with Microsoft, etc... many an hour on google got those results! ;) | Lohsing (219) | ||
| 82387 | 2002-09-24 07:01:00 | Apparently all of Outlook Express's emails (including deleted ones) remain on the hard drive until the folder is compacted. With a bit of luck you might be able to use DBXtract to fish out the emails in the Deleted folder. Go to this (pages.prodigy.net) site, read about .eml files and DBXtract and then download it and follow the instructions. Let us know how you get on. :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 82388 | 2002-09-25 04:07:00 | Looks, promising, I'll give it a try. To whoever asked, yes it's the emails I want back, I know how to create a folder thanks.... Keep the ideas coming though... cheers. |
funkster (1914) | ||
| 82389 | 2002-09-25 05:06:00 | That looks like a good approach. If the files are kept in a database, they are "removed" by removing the index entries, not the actual content. That space is only reclaimed (thus permanently deleting) when the database is "compressed". It should not be too hard to recover. | Graham L (2) | ||
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