System Restore

[missprim]

I have deleted an email by mistake and my trash can has emptied, how can I get the email back?
I have tried system restore but it wont go back to any of the restore points chosen, it just says there was an error.
Any ideas?
Thanks

[tamborine]

Cant get the email back once deleted. Ask the sender to re-send it.

[TonyV]

think you have disable any anti virus / protectection programmes you have on pc - so do it offline with those disabled - but someone more knowlegdable than me will tell you if this is right. What system are you running?

[TonyV]

tamborine - surely that depends on service provider? Question was about system restore.

[AlBags]

1. You are HIGHLY unlikely to get a deleted email restored with SR.
2. You are maybe getting the error because of interference from your Anti-Virus program. What is it?

Try switching off/disabling Anti-Virus and try again.

[vivandorron]

I don't think that system restore is of any help to you. Unless I am mistaken 'system restore' will only return your computer to an original operating function and does not take account of lost material, which it is in your case.

We need someone like ChuckFickens or Buenchicho on the line at this stage.

Ron.

[missprim]

Using Kaspersky as my internet security and am on Windows Vista.
I know that Buenchicho seems well informed so will have to wait and hope he sees this.

[vivandorron]

Hi missprim.....I am also operating on Vista, but I don't pay a penny for my Internet Security which is MSN (Microsoft Security Essentials).

Incidentally, I only singled out Chuck & Chris because they have given me good advice in the past. AlBags and others are also well informed on matters and should never be overlooked; as I admit to sometimes doing.:-)

Ron☺☺☺

[tamborine]

here's the Q "...deleted an email by mistake and my trash can has emptied, how can I get the email back?...."

System Restore wont reinstate deleted emails.

[AlBags]

Yes ... Chris is a good searcher : )

Just read this ...
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html

The best you can do is to do what I said. If that does not help you, nothing will.
Sorry.

[missprim]

Ok tamborine I understand that now but it was the only thing I could think of.
Unless someone comes up with a way, then I will just take it that there isn't one.

[tamborine]

Depending on the email, you could trawl your cache for it.

[AlBags]

Amazing how one can cause the earth to move so much over one email.

[AlBags]

It's used for attachments only.

[tamborine]

lol albags......make a new file for deleted items so you can take seconds on totalling them :)

[Buenchico]

System Restore only affects your PC's registry. It has nothing to do with individual data files, such as emails.

Email clients (such as Windows Mail) don't store emails as individual files. What appear to be (and are referred to as) 'folders' (such as 'Inbox' and 'Deleted Mail') are actually single data files, which are rewritten whenever you move, or delete, an email. (Think of it as similar to having a single Word file, containing a book made up of lots of chapters. If you delete just one chapter, you end up with a modified version of the same 'book' file. There was never a file which contained just that one chapter. Similarly there was never a file which contained the important email you're seeking). That method of working makes it virtually impossible to recover a deleted email, since it never existed as a separate file in its own right.

I have very occasionally managed to find very limited data from a deleted email (such as important phone number) by using the following technique, but it definitely won't find things like embedded images or attachments:

Run a search for 'Deleted Mail' (or 'Trash', or whatever else your deleted mail folder is called). When found, right-click on it and select 'Open With'. Choose 'Notepad'. That will show you everything which remains in that folder, which MIGHT still include elements of your deleted mail.

Chris

[missprim]

Thanks for that Chris, will try that right now.

[TonyV]

ok Tamb - I was reading the system restore part - pls accept my appologies

[galeck1947]

Download and try RECUVA which is free it could find it using a deep scan it is worth having a go

[missprim]

Just in case anybody looks here for help on this in the future, I managed to retrieve my emails by joining the Hotmail Forum and one of the team there was able to send the messages that I had deleted back to me.

[magicmerlin]

Your deleted email would have been put into your 'Deleted' emails folder. It is only when this contents of this folder is deleted that email is lost forever, until then the original email is still retrievable.