I fucked up. Help bail a brotha out?

Lizard King · Post by **Lizard King** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:49 am

Is there any way to retreive stuff that has been "permanently" deleted in Outlook Express?

I fucked up big time and deleted email addresses of people from three separate poker distribution lists and it's going to be a major PITA to gather them all up again. About 50 email addresses are gone because of my idiocy.

ElvisMonster · Post by **ElvisMonster** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:19 pm

If you restore from a day previous to the day you deleted the stuff, it should come back, right? I'm not a computer guy but you seemed desperate. Any port in a storm, right?

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:06 pm

that only works in XP

Lizard King · Post by **Lizard King** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:34 pm

I was able to dig an old email out of my Sent Items folder that had all the info I was looking for.

ElvisMonster · Post by **ElvisMonster** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:34 pm

You're welcome.

ElTaco · Post by **ElTaco** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:06 pm

There is actually a way to recover deleted emails and contacts. The trick is to corrupt the file. Use a hex editor or ms debug.com. Anyway you corrupt the file and then use Outlook to recover a corrupt PST file. It can work to recover some of your emails and contacts. I've used it and it has worked. Search google for 'recovering outlook emails by corrupting pst file' or something similar and see if you get some step by step directions. I think it only works in the newer versions of outlook.