Easy to Recover Deleted Emails in Outlook

As we all know that with the development of information technology, people tend to communicate with email instead of letters. Which one would you like to choose, email delivered with a few clicks or letters delivered through a long time?  Considering efficiency, email must be the best choice.

Microsoft Outlook and PST file

Microsoft Outlook, as a part of Microsoft Office suite, is a personal information manager from Microsoft. The current version is Microsoft Office Outlook 2013 for Windows and Microsoft Office Outlook 2011 for Mac. An email application as it is, it also works as a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note taking, a journal and web browsing.

A PST file is a personal folder file in Microsoft Outlook. In Outlook, the storage limit for a single user's .PST file is 2 GB. PST stands for personal storage. 

Why PST Files Get Deleted?

Convenience as email brings to us, but we may be in trouble of losing vital PST files due to reasons listed below.

Accidental deletion

Relocation of the files

Virus invasion leads to files corruption

Sudden crashing of Outlook due to power off

Size of .pst files exceeds the limit 2 GB

How to Recover Deleted Emails in Outlook?

When you delete emails in Outlook, they don’t disappear permanently but go to the Deleted Items folder like the Recycle Bin on the desktop. You still have a second chance to restore PST files if you delete them by accident or even your account has been hacked. There’re two answers to the question “how to recover a PST file”.

      1)      Utilize the function “recover deleted messages” provided by software itself.

This is a very useful and convenient feature. Once you lost messages, just follow the steps (click Deleted folder and then click recover deleted messages at the bottom of the window) to retrieve emails as many as it could. 

      2)      Resort to email recovery software.

You need a third party email recovery program if your PST files get corrupted or deleted due to reasons mentioned above. Select one email recovery tool based on program features, customer service, product price and so on. Most companies provide demo version before purchase. If the program you tried is helpful, you can upgrade to full version.  

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