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Can I recover lost emails?

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I feel your pain! I shudder at the thought of losing my emails
For example, I’m in an online writer’s group where we critique each others’ works in progress via email. While I route all related critiques into a special folder in Microsoft Mail for easy access, I don’t necessarily save these messages into standards folders on my hard disk nor do I back them up. Losing just this one folder in Microsoft Mail would mean losing at least a year’s worth of feedback on my novel. That’s just one folder. I also receive all of my bank statements, work assignments, and other important messages via email.

So, what would I do if the unthinkable happened and my email folders became corrupt? Since I don’t backup my emails, I can’t restore them that way. Instead, I would need to use data recovery software. When using data recovery software for recovering email messages, you must make sure to pick your software carefully because email recovery is a bit different than standard data recovery.

For example, Microsoft Outlook uses PST files while Microsoft Outlook Express uses DBX files. In addition to email folders and messages, associated data such as address books, journal entries, calendars, appointments, notes, and tasks are part of Microsoft Outlook data. Because each email client uses a different system for storing email messages and related data, you must make sure that the email recovery tool that you buy has support for the system that you are using. If you need to recover Microsoft Outlook emails, then you need an email recovery tool designed to recover PST files. Likewise, if you use Outlook Express or Microsoft Mail, then you need a data recovery tool capable of recovering DBX files.

Once you have the appropriate email recovery tool, you can go in and restore your folders along with the messages contained within each one.

If you are using Microsoft Outlook 97 through 2007, a built-in tool called the “Inbox Repair Tool” is included. This tool is designed to repair problems associated with PST files. You can use it when you suspect file corruption on either PST or OST (offline folder files) files. The Inbox Repair Tool ensures that the structure is intact, resets the structure, and rebuilds headers. Occasionally, recovered PST files don’t work until they’ve been repaired with this tool as well. In order to run this tool, you must first find it. Go to the Start button and enter “scanpst.exe” in the Search bar. Once found, double-click it. Next, enter the path to your PST file and follow the prompts.

In the meantime, I think I’ll run a quick backup of my email folders to avoid this problem in the first place. To find out where your “store” folder is located in Microsoft Outlook Express, go to Tools>Options>Maintenance>Store folder. In Microsoft Mail, go to Tools>Options>Advanced>Maintenance>Store folder. Here, you’ll be able to see the path leading to your store folder such as:

C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail

Once you know where your Store folder is located, you can back it up. However, I’m terrible at regularly backing up my data. It’s reassuring to know that data recovery could help in a pinch.

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