Name: Tina
Status: Other
Age: 40s
Location: N/A
Date: 8/22/2004
Question:
I have e-mails that have been deleted how do I recover
this data.
Replies:
It depends upon exactly what you mean by "deleted". In Window's Outlook
Express when you "delete" a message, it isn't "really" deleted. Rather it
filed in the "Deleted Messages" folder. If you have not emptied that folder
recently all you have to do is click on your "Inbox" which will drop down a
panel of a number of options, one of which is "Deleted Messages". If you
click that icon, and not too many messages have been subsequently "deleted"
you will find it there.
There is a similar folder named "Sent Messages". For reasons that are
not clear to me, the default in OE does not tally your "Sent Messages". If
you click on that icon, you may find several megabytes worth of disc space
hiding in this "useless" disc space. Deleting those messages can retrieve a
lot of disc space you didn't know was in hiding!
There is a way of even retrieving messages that have been emptied from
the "Deleted Messages" folder, if it isn't too late, but I'd have to consult
a manual on how to do that.
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