accidently deleting your e mails.!!

[ibizaboy]

yikes, can anybody please help. ive just accidently deleted my e mails as junk, but forgot i had 7 i needed to keep as hotel bookings and train travel info.
can i get them back somehow.??. cheers ian.

[squarebear]

We need to know which email client you are using. Outlook? Outlook Express? A web based email system?

[ibizaboy]

im on outlook express

[squarebear]

Have you deleted them from your deleted items as well?

[ibizaboy]

yes, ive read them, put them into the deleted file, (as i do keep some there) but gone and deleted the whole lot without thinking.!!

[squarebear]

You could try this:

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Email_Tools /Anti-SPAM_Tools/Restore_Deleted_from_Outlook_ Express.html

I don't know if it works or not but it may help you.


In future, you are probably better making subfolders under the inbox and storing them in there rather than storing them in deleted items. I used to know a guy who stored needed files in the recycle bin!!

[ibizaboy]

thanks for all your help, but sadly the link no longer exists, i get error 404 come up.

[ChuckFickens]

I am saying nothing!

I will just sit here quietly for a couple of minutes slowly shaking my head!

[squarebear]

Now now Chuck be nice ;-)

ibizaboy - try this link instead:
http://www.recover-outlook-email.com/faq2.htm

[alan-r]

try this ibiza its free i've had success with it
http://www.recuva.com/

[alan-r]

chuck
i know you very helpful in this computers section but sometimes you can appear very arrogant
each to their own subject.............

[ChuckFickens]

I'm not trying to be arrogant at all,

I just find it incredulous that anyone would think that "storing" wanted emails in the deleted items folder was a good idea.

Computer or no computer the idea that somebody would basically put something in the bin for safe keeping and then be surprised they lose it when the bin gets emptied is a concept I find hard to grasp.

anyhow, on a technical note, I wish ibizaboy luck in getting their mails back, I wouldn't hold out too much hope though as the outlook express folders work in a different way to outlooks PST file (which you can normally recover deleted mails from) but overall I hope they have learned the lesson that maybe the bin is not a good place to put things for safe keeping.