restoring accidentally deleted folders

[griff3765]

i am using outlook express 6 for emails and i have deleted my saved email folder by mistake this folder contained a lot of important info . Is there anyway of retrieving this folder ??

[dzug]

It can be done with special software - I believe Norton Utilities can/could do this but my knowledge of it is both sketchy and several years out of date.

This assumes that the area of disk on which the data was written hasn't been overwritten with new data since you deleted it.

If it has it's still potentially recoverable using special purpose equipment that can read several layers of data and work out which is which. You'd need to go to a specialist company and it will cost more than you ever thought possible.

[vehelpfulguy]

One of the options in otlook Express is "keep files on server".

If you set this then even when you download your mail to your PC it keep a copy on the server. It only deletes it from the server when you delete it.

I have this set, and when I want to move Outlook to another machine I just configure it, tick the flag that says "leave on server" and download my mail.

It is then always on the server whatever happens.