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Recover Deleted Microsoft Outlook PST files |
Recover My Files will search for and locate deleted Microsoft Outlook PST files (not individual deleted messages):
Run Recover My files and select the drive to search for deleted files (you may also wish to include a search of the "active" files on your system to make sure that the PST hasn't been accidentally moved or hidden. To do this double click on "Add folders to search" and add the "C:\" drive or a folders of your choice);
Select "outlook email file" as the type of file to search for;
Save the recovered files to another storage located (you will need the registered version to do this);
Try and open the file with Microsoft Outlook (start Outlook, select FILE / OPEN / OUTLOOK DATA FILE [this is the location in Outlook 2002].
TECH NOTE: Microsoft Outlook PST files are complex and in some instances recovered PST files will not function until they have also been repaired. This is done by running a program called "scanpst.exe" which is installed by default on all Windows computer systems, or download scanpst.exe here. Scan PST will make another repaired copy of your file. Try and open this file with Outlook as described above. If this does not work there are other commercially available PST repair programs which can be located by searching the Internet.
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Recover Deleted Outlook Express DBX files |
Recover My Files will search for and locate deleted Microsoft Outlook Express ".dbx" files (It will not recover individual messages deleted from within a folder). The preview window allows you to see the contents of the recovered file, including the number of messages, the "to" and "from" address fields, the subject and the date each message was sent and received.
Run Recover My Files and select the drive to search (you may also wish to include a search of the "active" files on your system to make sure that the files haven't been accidentally moved or hidden. To do this double click on "Add folders to search" and add the "C:\" drive or a folders of your choice);
Select "Outlook Express Email File" as the type of file to search for;
Run the search and save the recovered files to another storage location (you will need the registered version to save recovered files);
To open the recovered files run Microsoft Outlook Express and point it to the recovered files (to point the program to the recovered files select TOOLS / OPTIONS / MAINTENANCE / STORE FOLDER [this is the location in Outlook Express 6]).
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Recovering Web Based Email (Hotmail , Yahoo etc) |
When you use a Web based email program such as Hotmail or Yahoo you are actually using your Internet Browser to log into a remote computer which stores your email. When you delete an email you are deleting it from the remote computer and it cannot be recovered (see http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/manage/manage-23.html ).
However, if you have previously viewed the deleted email on the computer that you are using it may be possible to recover copies of the pages that you have viewed. When you view Web based email with your Internet Browser a copy of the page you saw on your screen is written to your computer into the "Temporary Internet Cache". Caching is a way that computers speed up access to Internet pages. You may have copies of the Web mail messages still stored in your Temporary Internet Files folder or, as the cache is frequently automatically emptied, as a deleted HTML pages on your computer.
Run Recover My Files, in the first screen double click and on "add folders to search". Then you must find your "Temporary Internet Files" folder and add it to the search (in Windows XP add the "Documents and Settings" folder).
Then also select your "C:\" drive to be searched for deleted files (by placing a green tick next to it).
In the next screen select "Hypertext Markup Language" (the format of Web pages) as the file type to be searched for and run the search .
Preview the recovered Web pages files by clicking on the "+" sign to show all recovered files and then highlighting each file, the contents of the HTML page will be displayed in the bottom window. HTML pages will not be recovered with graphics but you will see all the text. Look through the recovered file to find those ones that are from your Web based email.
