One of my co-workers deleted a folder in her Microsoft Outlook program. Does anyone know how we can recover her folder?

9/12/2006 2:45:24 PM

is it not in the deleted items folder in outlook?

if it is in there, you can restore it.

9/13/2006 4:10:20 PM

silly women...

but seriously, i know the folders are on the hard drive but i dunno if they're deleted if you delete a folder inside of outlook express as opposed to deleting the folder from windows explorer...

9/13/2006 8:58:53 PM

guitarguy's post might be a little confusing

outlook != outlook express

outlook stores things in one .pst file, outlook express stores things in separate files per folder (or it did like 5 years ago when i used it).

if she deleted the folder from the .pst and emptied the deleted items bin, she may be screwed. i have heard of outlook keeping emails in the .pst file until you manually go to "compress" but i don't know of a way to go about restoring from the pst file to the actual outlook folders.

guitarguy might have been trying to say that in outlook express, if you delete a folder, it doesn't necessarily delete the individual file that stores all the emails, just the reference to open that file in the outlook express folder list.

[Edited on September 13, 2006 at 10:12 PM. Reason : warning, i wrote this while watching south park so sentence structure will probably not make sense]

9/13/2006 10:11:56 PM