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Outlook Folder Recovery

  • To: Harvey Tobkes <harveytobkes@bellsouth.net>
  • Subject: Outlook Folder Recovery
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <roy@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:04:22 +0000
  • Delivery-date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:00:48 +0000
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  • Organization: Manchester University
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Harvey Tobkes wrote:

*Question: When a message or a folder is deleted from Outlook, is there a way to recover it?*

Here is what I suggest you do: All your mail folders are kept under a certain directory in a structure that is more or less reasonable. The first step is to check which directory that is (it varies among Windows versions). In Windows 98 it used to be somewhere in 'Program Files', maybe under 'Common Files' or 'Application Data', but an easy way to discover the correct path is by going to 'Options' in Outlook and look for the field which allows you to change that path.


Once you find that path, browse to get there and find a .dbx file whose name is similar to that of the erased folder. Mail clients tend to keep mail data quite stubbornly unless erasure is done physically or the folder compacted.

Good Luck.


-- Roy Schestowitz http://schestowitz.com




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