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[shockersh]

In an earlier forum dated October 10, 2008, there was some discussion concerning recovering deleted emails using the pst file. On November 7, 2008, Ravi Luck @MrGroove posted he had recovered deleted emails using a pst file. He located the pst file and "then in the file, under its properties (maybe advanced properties), restored it to a date before the email was deleted". I have located my pst file but cannot restore it to a date before the emails I am looking for were deleted. Can someone tell me how to restore the pst file to an earlier date?

I have succesfully restored some of the deleted emails in the pst file by corrupting the pst file with a hex editor and using SCANPST.exe to recover the file. The problem is, the recovery operation doesn't restore the deleted emails to a date far enough in the past.

I think what your talking about was the guy who used Shadow Copy on his Vista box to restore the PST to an earlier version.

I've not used XP in awhile however with Windows Vista and Windows 7, Shadow copies are turned on by default so when you right click on the file there is an option "Restore previous versions". You just click on that and hope you have a previous version of the file.

[mrmonk21]

Hi MrGroovy,

I need help recovering emails from my IMAP account on outlook 2003 running off Windows XP.

I have purge deleted emails and I need to recover them.


Please help

[MrGroove]

Hi MrGroovy,

I need help recovering emails from my IMAP account on outlook 2003 running off Windows XP.

I have purge deleted emails and I need to recover them.

Please help

Greetings and welcome to groovyPost.com!

Your problem is not uncommon. Fortunatly when you delete email inside of a PST file, the email and folders is not actually deleted. Before you can recover the emails however you first need to corrupt the PST file (take a copy of it first!!!) then use a microsoft tool to do the recovery.

The entire write-up can be found here: microsoft-office/how-to-corupt-an-outlook-pst-file-to-recover-delete-email-t95682.html

Keep us updated on that thread if you need more help.

[Uttam]

The Query relating to Microsoft Outlook 2007, while archieving the Sent Item mail folder, one of my friend deleted the entire mail tree structure, (which contains Inbox, Sent Item, other personal folders), do you have any solutions for the same, I have to recover back all folders, because those sent item folder contains important mails, at any cost i have to recover back... please guide me....

Uttam

[shockersh]

The Query relating to Microsoft Outlook 2007, while archieving the Sent Item mail folder, one of my friend deleted the entire mail tree structure, (which contains Inbox, Sent Item, other personal folders), do you have any solutions for the same, I have to recover back all folders, because those sent item folder contains important mails, at any cost i have to recover back... please guide me....

Uttam

Hi Uttam, the thread that MrGroove pointed out above:

The entire write-up can be found here: microsoft-office/how-to-corupt-an-outlook-pst-file-to-recover-delete-email-t95682.html

Actually has the step-by-step for corrupting the PST file then recovering it with scanpst.exe

If you follow that process it will recover ALL emails and folders which should make you 100%.

Post over on that thread if you have issues.