subject: Recovering outlook emails [print this page] Recovering outlook emails Recovering outlook emails
Nowadays email plays a major role in our life. It provides us easy and instant communication. Let it be for personal or business related emails; people tend to rely heavily on emails which is easy and instant. Microsoft Outlook is the preferred email client of many users due to its advanced features such as calendar, task, notes, journal and contact management. All these data is stored in .pst files.
When we are unable to open Outlook due to any reasons, we tend to panic and look for ways to get back the stored data from the .pst files.When you are not able to trace an email which is been deleted or when you delete an email from Microsoft Outlook it is not actually deleted, but marked as deleted. The space occupied by the email is available as free space for storing new data. The email is not permanently deleted until you compact the .pst file or save any new data.
There are few scenarios where the emails can be lost
Corruption caused due to exceeding the 2 GB .pst file size limit.
Corruption of .pst files when used over a network.
Accidentally deleted messages, contacts and notes.
Corruption inside the .pst file header.
Corruption that occurred during compacting of a .pst file.
Incomplete recovery of a .pst file by data recovery software due to fragmentation.
Reasons might be hundreds but therestoration emailsis done with the respective of the recovery as soon as possible
Irrespective of the scenarios, you can recover deleted emails from outlook with certain steps.
Select a good email recovery software.
Download the software and install it to a hard drive.
