How to Recover Deleted Emails in Outlook 2016, 2013, 2010 & Below Versions?

When users accidentally delete an email from their Microsoft Outlook 2016, 2013, etc., mailboxes, it is possible to retrieve it back. The initial location from where users can perform deleted email recovery from Outlook is ‘Deleted Items’ folder. If users are unable to receive back this message then, the second approach is to have a look on ‘Recoverable Items’ folder that can be utilized via Recover Deleted Items utility.

There are 2 types of deletion taking place in Microsoft Outlook mailing client. One is soft deletion in which the deleted item is located either in ‘Deleted Items’ or ‘Recoverable items’ folder. Users can regain back these kind of messages when items exist in anyone of these folder. While on the other hand, it is impossible to recover shift deleted items from Outlook folders through manual workarounds. This means that users need to opt for third party applications, which are designed to regain back permanently lost data from OST/PST file.

Steps to Recover Deleted Emails in Outlook

The manual approaches extract lost messages from Microsoft Outlook unwanted folders. Users can take help of described guidelines to perform Outlook email recovery.

• Retrieve Items from Outlook Deleted Items Folder

Follow the upcoming instructions to retrieve messages from ‘Deleted Items’ folder of MS Outlook :

Open Microsoft Outlook email client on your machine and click on Deleted Items

When you find your desired deleted message, right-click on it and select Move >> Other Folder

Select the Outlook folder or sub-folder in which you want to move the chosen message. Suppose here we are choosing Inbox and click on OK

• Recover Emails That’s No Longer Present in Deleted Items Folder

When you don’t find your email in ‘Deleted Items’ folder, you have to look in ‘Recoverable Items’ folder. This Outlook folder is hidden, which exists when one of the following thing is in execution state :

• Delete an email from the folder of ‘Deleted Items’
• Intentionally / unintentionally emptied deleted items folder
• Shift deleted an email messages from any MS Outlook folder

Well, in order to regain back the messages in such case, you can take help of following instructions :

• Open MS Outlook and click on Deleted Items
• Click on the Home tab and select Recover Deleted Items from Server

• Select the items, which you want to restore and click on Restore Selected Items >> OK

The above methods are workable in following conditions only :

• When Microsoft Exchange server is connected with Outlook
• The total retention period does not gets expired
• Connectivity mode of Microsoft Outlook is online

Now, if in case, the message is completely deleted and cannot be recovered from any of the manual approach then, the only approach left is Microsoft Outlook recovery utility. This application enables users to perform hard deleted email recovery from Outlook 2016, 2013, 2010, and all the prior versions.

Conclusion

The soft-deletion email recovery is possible if the desired items exists either in ‘Deleted Items’ or ‘Recoverable Items’ of MS Outlook. However, if the time comes for hard-deleted email recovery from Outlook then, it is going to be tough. This requires recovery application like Outlook OST file repair tool, because advance programming is needed for such type of data retrieval.