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Recover deleted email messages in Outlook.
Last Updated a year ago
Recover deleted email messages in Outlook.
- To see if a deleted message can be recovered first check in the Deleted Items folder.
- If you see the email, select it, and then click on Move from the outlook ribbon.
- Click Move Then Move again then Other Folder
- From here click on Inbox and then OK
- This will move the deleted email from your Deleted Items folder back to your Inbox.
- If you don’t see it in the Deleted Items folder, you can also search for the deleted email.
- In the search bar across the top of outlook set the dropdown to all outlook items. Then type a keyword in the email, title of the email, or the sender of email and outlook will perform a search to find the email.
- Once it finds the email right click on the email and choose Move and then choose Other folder -> Inbox.
The last possibility to try and recover an email is to use Recover Items from Server.
- Click the Deleted Items folder.
- From the outlook ribbon click on Recover Deleted Items from Server.
- This window should show.
- I would recommend maximizing the window and expanding the column to make the text easier to read. To maximize the window and to expand the subject column, hover your mouse between the Subject and Deleted On column till this icon shows and then drag the subject column over till you can properly read the subjects of the emails in this view. Do this for the Deleted-On column and Received On column if needed.
- Search through this list to see if you can find a subject that matches the deleted email you are looking for. It can also help to click on the Deleted-On column so that the list is sorted by what was deleted most recently.
- Select any email you wish to restore and make sure the restore selected items radio button is selected and then click on Ok to restore it.