How to get back deleted Outlook mails?

Admin February 22, 2007 10

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Do you use Outlook? Do you have the habit of deleting mails by pressing Shift+Del? Ever been fired by boss for a deleted mail? Then, this post is for you.

Dont worry. You can get back those mails. Follow this method:

Step 1:

First go to Start-Run and Type ‘regedit’

Step 2:

Go to:
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\EXCHANGE\CLIENT\OPTIONS
registry key.

Step 3:

Right click options and add new DWORD VALUE (data type is REG_DWORD)

and then right click and rename to DumpsterAlwaysOn. It is case sensitive.

Step 4:

Then right click and modify and make the value 1 to turn the Recover Deleted Items menu in Outlook choice ‘on’ for all folders or enter 0 to turn it off. Make sure it looks like this:

Step 5:

Go to Outlook ,

1. Click Tools
2. Select ‘Recover Deleted Items’

Thats it!

Note: This procedure can recover mails which were deleted by pressing shift+ del in the past 30 days.

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10 Comments »

venu. July 18, 2007 at 8:02 am -

thanks a lot.

This helped me a lot.
Fatema August 5, 2008 at 2:15 pm -

i dont have any option called recover deleted items ….plz help
Boziiwog August 6, 2008 at 11:00 pm -

I have accurately made modification to regedit and the option does not show up in tools
wally September 5, 2008 at 5:40 pm -

i don’t have recover deleated items in tools either
Shakeel October 20, 2008 at 8:42 am -

Thanks a lot man…this worked fine for me…
Alicia June 5, 2009 at 2:06 am -

I dont have recover deleted items in tools either need help urgently please please!

Thanks,
Sukanta Sharma October 10, 2009 at 3:55 pm -

When i tried to rename DumpsterAlwaysOn, i have getting one error msg that the registry editor cannot rename DumpsterAlwaysOn. the specified value name already exists, type another name and try again.

What should i do, pls help me?
abc November 18, 2009 at 1:34 am -

Thanks a ton, it worked great.
For those who donot see/disabled option, you will have to refresh the registry and restart outlook.
raman June 3, 2010 at 6:45 pm -

i did not found recover mails from tools
Bhanusree September 30, 2011 at 6:47 pm -

Thank you somuch u helped me alot………….