outlook express

[Lisa]

I thought I was deleting the deleted files and
accidentally deletd my emails in my "drafts" folder.
These are letters from family that I cherish. Is there
any possiblity of recovering them??? Thank you!!

[Gordon]

"Lisa" > wrote in message
...
> I thought I was deleting the deleted files and
> accidentally deletd my emails in my "drafts" folder.
> These are letters from family that I cherish. Is there
> any possiblity of recovering them??? Thank you!!

Why, in God's name, are you storing mail you want to keep in the DRAFTS
folder?

Have you checked in the "deleted items" folder?

[Hilary Karp]

If the files were not sent to the recycle bin then you can recover them
easily. If they were not DO NOT use your comupter. The more you use it
the more chance the files were overwritten.

Deleted files are not really removed from the hard drive. The file
names are removed from the directory listing and the space marked as
available to the system but unless the system overwrites them later they
can stay around.

Go online to google and search for file undelete utilities. There are
several free ones out there.

Executive Software has one called undelete. You can dowload a trial
version and see if it will recover your files.

www.executivesoftware.com


Lisa wrote:

> I thought I was deleting the deleted files and
> accidentally deletd my emails in my "drafts" folder.
> These are letters from family that I cherish. Is there
> any possiblity of recovering them??? Thank you!!

[Hilary Karp]

Ok thanks. I don't use OE so I didn't know for sure.

PA Bear wrote:

> Deleted OE data does /not/ go to Recycle Bin.

[Hilary Karp]

If the files were not sent to the recycle bin then you can recover them
easily. If they were not DO NOT use your comupter. The more you use it
the more chance the files were overwritten.

Deleted files are not really removed from the hard drive. The file
names are removed from the directory listing and the space marked as
available to the system but unless the system overwrites them later they
can stay around.

Go online to google and search for file undelete utilities. There are
several free ones out there.

Executive Software has one called undelete. You can dowload a trial
version and see if it will recover your files.

www.executivesoftware.com


Lisa wrote:

> I thought I was deleting the deleted files and
> accidentally deletd my emails in my "drafts" folder.
> These are letters from family that I cherish. Is there
> any possiblity of recovering them??? Thank you!!