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Microsoft Outlook XP emails gone!

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Name: Matchbox
Date: March 29, 2004 at 17:16:29 Pacific
OS: Win XP Pro
CPU/Ram: 2.8GHz/ 512 Ram
Comment:

hi,

i opened up Microsoft Outlook XP today, and in my inbox, a period of 6 months of emails had gone missing along with a few contacts which i had!

i've looked at the archive file, and i'll it doesn't is bring a couple of emails back from before i lost the chunk of emails....
Archiving my emails takes them from todays date back, and doesn't just take a chunk out of the middle of all my emails....

why would this be...

any suggestions?

thank you for your help :o)



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Response Number 1
Name: angrymen2001
Date: March 29, 2004 at 17:39:15 Pacific
Reply:

Do you know how to recover deleted mail?
You can see if they're in there. If not, here's how.
Send email to delete box, delete the email.
In tools select recover deleted mail (this only works in Outlook not outlook express)
When it redirects you, see if the lost email is there.


If it ain't broke upgrade it!!!


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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: March 30, 2004 at 08:31:18 Pacific
Reply:

Is this recover option available in any other version of Outlook (other than XP)?


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Response Number 3
Name: angrymen2001
Date: March 30, 2004 at 10:08:50 Pacific
Reply:

I have outlook at work on a win2000 system.
I only have OE at home.
To answer your question, I really don't know as I only learned about it around 1 year ago.
But the option was there on our WIN98 OS as well (just upgraded less than 1 year ago)

When all else fails, beat the %*#$! out of it!!!


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Response Number 4
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: March 30, 2004 at 12:28:57 Pacific
Reply:

What version of Outlook are you running? XP?


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Response Number 5
Name: angrymen2001
Date: March 30, 2004 at 13:57:31 Pacific
Reply:

Office 2000


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Response Number 6
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: March 30, 2004 at 16:23:50 Pacific
Reply:

Okay. I have Office 2000, running Outlook 2000, and I do not have this option. Is this available only with Exchange perhaps?


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Response Number 7
Name: angrymen2001
Date: March 30, 2004 at 16:40:17 Pacific
Reply:

Just learned something thru google, here it is.
So maybe not all Outlooks have it (sorry)


Recover Deleted Items in Outlook
Have you ever deleted mail from your Deleted Items folder and then wanted to retrieve it? In most cases, you can with Microsoft OutlookŪ 2000.

To recover deleted items:

In the Folder list, click Deleted Items.
On the Tools menu, click Recover Deleted Items.
Click the item you want to recover. To select multiple items, click the first item, and then hold down CTRL and click additional items.
Click the Recover Selected Items button.
The items will be returned to your Deleted Items folder, and then you can move them to other folders.

However, some items may no longer be recoverable if your system administrator has limited the amount of time that deleted items can be stored on the server. Also, if you have Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5 or later, your administrator will need to enable this feature.

Editor's Note: This procedure only works if you've installed Outlook with the Corporate Workgroup/Other option. To determine your installation type, on the Help menu, click About Microsoft Outlook. You will see "Corporate" in the About Microsoft Outlook dialog box if you have the Corporate Workgroup installation.



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Response Number 8
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: March 31, 2004 at 04:06:14 Pacific
Reply:

As I suspected. :) Thanks...


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