Restoring old emails already deleted from Outlook

Recover Old Emails from Outlook

Emails are electronic mails often used for communication purpose in business, office and education field. Mails are widely used as they are reliable, secure, economical and are delivered instantly. In addition to this emails can be integrated to any email client such as Microsoft Outlook. Outlook is one of the widely used email clients which stores all such important emails in a separate file called as PST. However, any corruption or damage to these files will result in email deletion. If you are a user who has deleted your old emails unintentionally or lost them due to PST file corruption, then no need to worry because still you have chance to retrieve those old emails.

Is it possible to recover old deleted emails from Outlook?

Yes! it is possible to restore old emails already deleted from Outlook, because whenever you delete any email in Outlook they are moved to "Deleted Items" folder from where it can restored back, procedure to recover emails from "Deleted Items Folder" is given below:

Solution 1:

  • Open Outlook and click on "Tools" tab
  • Click on "Recover Deleted Items" option
  • A recovery window will pop up and shows all the recently deleted emails which can be restored back
  • Choose the emails which you want to recover and click "Restore Selected Items" button
  • The emails which you have selected will be restored back to its original folder from where they were deleted. i.e. if you have deleted email from inbox, then the email will be restored back to the inbox folder

Note: However, this method only helps you in recovering the recently deleted emails and fails to recover emails which were deleted long ago. In order to restore old emails it is suggested to use an efficient PST repair software like Remo Repair which repairs the PST file and simultaneously recovers all deleted emails from MS Outlook.

Solution 2:

Remo Repair software provides you one of the easiest and fastest ways to repair PST file and recover all accidentally or unintentionally deleted emails. The tool not only recovers deleted emails but also helps you in recovering other useful Outlook attributes such as Contacts, Calendar entries, Notes, Journals, Attachments etc. The main advantage of using this utility is that, the tool doesn’t add or modify the contents of your original PST file during the repair process. Furthermore, restores deleted emails from all MS Outlook versions such as MS Outlook 2000, 2003, 2007 and Outlook 2010.

 
 

Follow these steps for restoring old mails already deleted from Outlook:

Step 1: Terminate MS Outlook application before repair process. Download and install Remo Repair software to your Windows system. Run the software and follow the main screen procedure. Click on "Open PST File" option to open your corrupt / damaged PST file. Click on "Find PST File" option to search and choose your Outlook PST file or Use "Select Outlook Profile" option to choose a specific Outlook profile, if you have multiple accounts.

Restoring Old Mails Already Deleted from Outlook - Main Screen

Figure A: Main Screen

Step 2: Choose the appropriate scanning method. At last, browse for the destination location and click on "Repair" button to start the repair process.

Restoring Old Mails Already Deleted from Outlook - Choose Scanning Method

Figure B: Choose Scanning Method

Step 3: After repair completion, the application displays all Outlook deleted emails and other elements such as Notes, Contacts, Journals, Attachments etc.

Restoring Old Mails Already Deleted from Outlook - View Recovered Items

Figure C: View Recovered Items