Recovering Deleted Folders in Outlook 2010

I have a client (home user) who deleted on of his folders (heavily populated) and I am trying to recover it.  The folder doesn't appear in Deleted Items.  He is on a POP3 server with a cable provider.  He has no memory of moving or manually deleting the folder.  The folder does not appear in his webmail account on the cable provider mail server.  I have run scanpst.exe on the pst file with no results to see if the file is corrupt.  There are no previous pst files to re-import the folder.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to recover the folder?  Many thanks.

July 10th, 2014 9:32am

Hi MTGlenn,

Scanpst.exe does not work in the case of deleted or permanently deleted items. It can repair the damaged or corrupted part of Outlook Data File. 

Go and Google for any third party utility which assure 100% recovery like SysTools Outlook Recovery Solution, Kernel, Stellar etc. and choose the best one which can accomplish your task. 

Please read first about these software and their working before purchasing (if) as you are going to spend money on a product. Otherwise, there are also numbers of free  recovery solution which are available on the shareware platforms which helps to recover the data at some extent (it has limitation because of demo version then use it and recover important emails).

You can also try this one as I found this one from the same platform and found trusty as it has been approved by Microsoft (at this platform).

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Outlook-PST-Recovery-37c163d7

Note: These kind of issue can be easily resolved with the help of Dumpter feature when you are working with Outlook Exchange.

Thanks
Clark Kent
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July 10th, 2014 12:20pm

Hi,

Since it's a POP3 account, the folders don't sync between Outlook and the server, which means we can't find the deleted folders from the server.

If the emails can't even been found in the Deleted Items, I would suggest you try some 3rd-party tools to recover the folders from the .pst file, keep a backup to avoid the risk of losing all the data.

Thanks for Clark's suggestion as well.

Thanks,

Melon Chen

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July 10th, 2014 5:36pm

There are several resources regarding recovering deleted emails and folders from PST file, such as:

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/config/recover-deleted-messages-pst-files/

http://www.datanumen.com/outlook-repair/problems/outlook-deleted.htm

Hope this helps.

Good luck!


  • Edited by chcw Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:02 PM
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July 11th, 2014 1:01am

Hi,

Just checking in to see if the information was helpful. Please let us know if you would like further assistance.

Thanks,

Melon Chen

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July 14th, 2014 8:15am

Hi,

I'm marking the reply as answer as there has been no update for a couple of days.

If you come back to find it doesn't work for you, please reply to us and unmark the answer.

Thanks,

Melon Chen

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July 17th, 2014 10:14am

I would like to recommend Kernel for Outlook PST Repair tool to quickly recover deleted file and folders in Outlook 2010. This software is also supported by every MS Outlook and Windows OS version. Get more information, visit to: http://www.corruptpstfile.org
February 4th, 2015 4:55am

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