Our email is so vital that when it goes missing, it is very easy to get completely stressed out. If you have ever lost emails in Outlook or had troubles with an Outlook file becoming missing or corrupt, then you will know just how much frustration this can cause.
Unfortunately, the vast majority pay no mind to email backups until it’s too late. If you lose a PST file in Outook, this can be a devastating problem, because in Outlook all of the emails, calendars, contacts and notes are stored within one single file (.pst file). In the case of something happening to this file, you risk losing everything. This also occurs in other email programs including Outlook Express and Thunderbird. These generally rely on single files to store all of the email data.
We are going to show you how to recover lost data, but we can’t emphasize enough, the importance of backing up your data on a regular basis. You should backup your email data at least once every week or so and this should be backed up to an external drive or external storage of some sort. Then you can rest easy knowing that you aren’t about to lose tons of valuable correspondence.
If you are trying to retrieve an outlook PST file or Outlook Express .DBX file, there are specific programs available for each of these. In the past it required paying expensive computer technicians. Now you can scan your computer for free, to identify where the missing files have gone and if they can be restored.
If you are trying to retrieve deleted email, you should try a generic data recovery program first (eg: ParetoLogic Data Recovery). This will identify missing files and attempt to recover them. You can recover any type of file including: images, email, videos, documents and more. The software is very simple to use and it takes only about 3 minutes to perform a full scan, but this will depend on the size of your hard drive.
If you are attempting to retrieve email but still have no luck, then you will need to try the specific application built for either Outlook Express or Outlook. All of these tools are available from the link below.
Data recovery software is extremely handy, but you should not rely on it. There are situations where it cannot retrieve lost data. This is why a backup is always the best option. For all the downloads related to data recovery, check out Windows data recovery.
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