Recover Deleted Folders in Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is one of the important applications used for managing personal as well as business data. Using Microsoft Outlook advanced features you can manage you Outlook folders in a better and time efficient way. Outlook normally stores the data your share or create in different folders. These Outlook folders can be anywhere like in your system’s hard disk, on the network server or on the exchange server. If any icon on the Outlook bar is selected, then its whole folder structure will be displayed. You can create as extra folders and also public folders which are accessible by other users as well as. You can maintain separate folders inside inbox folder for different email users. You can also prevent some of your personal messages from being accessed by the other users by making your personal folder achieve. But sometimes these important folders are deleted from your Outlook account due to some reason. In that case you should retrieve accidentally erased folders using folder recovery tool for Outlook.

Common folder deletion scenarios in Outlook:

• Improper Termination of Outlook Application: Sometimes Outlook folders get deleted because of sudden termination of Outlook application while the Outlook folders are still in use or some email transfer is going on. Instant Outlook termination during this process won’t complete the process properly by saving all the changes. As a result some important folders may be erased from Microsoft Outlook
• PST file corruption due to archive error: Archive and Auto archive are the two options available in Microsoft Outlook to initiate moving of Outlook items automatically to PST files based on the preconfigured settings. But sometimes even if all other settings appear to be proper the Archive facilities fails to work properly as expected. As a result the PST files become corrupted ultimately leading to folder loss in Microsoft Outlook
• Besides these two main reasons there exist some other cause behind folder deletion in Outlook like PST files corruption due to virus attack or sharing of the PST file over a network makes it corrupt. Some critical folders along with the files inside may get erased during Anti-virus scanning process. Folders can also be deleted due to human mistakes like accidental deletion of folders from deleted item folders, sudden power surge, improper shut down of the computer and Outlook upgradation process without proper data backup

To get rid of such folder deletion scenarios you should always be careful enough to terminate the Outlook application properly to avoid folder deletion due to improper termination of Outlook application. You can also update your PC with recent version of Antivirus program to avoid any sort of PST file corruption. Now to recover deleted folder in Outlook you can use folder recovery tool like PST Repair Tool.To undelete accidentally erased files and folders in Windows you can use folder recovery software for Windows OS. Actually this software recovers deleted folders from Outlook versions 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010. Whereas, Mac file recovery software can help you to restore files deleted or lost from Mac hard drives. Email messages emptied from any Microsoft Outlook folder or erased from deleted item folder can also be recovered using this software. Additionally, if you want to retrieve files deleted from pen drives, memory cards or external hard drives then you can make use of hard drive data recovery software

Corrupted PST files can get repaired by this software to recover deleted Outlook folders. Microsoft Outlook folders which are deleted while upgrading the Outlook version can also be restored.

Steps to recover deleted folder in Outlook:

Step 1: Download and Install free version of PST Repair Tool on your system. After successful launch of the software you’ll get three options appearing in the main screen such as “Open PST File”, “Find PST File” and “Select Outlook Profile” as shown in Fig 1 below. Select the last option to get your PST file repaired with respect to a certain Outlook profile

Fig 1: Main Screen after successful launching of the Software

Step 2: After selecting the option all the PST files present in that Outlook profile will be shown. Select the PST file to be repaired for folder recovery using "Browse" button as shown in Fig 2 below

Fig 2: Select the PST File using Browse button

Step 3: Then you need to choose the PST file and the scanning mode either “Normal Scan” or “Smart Scan” and after that select the final destination for the repaired PST file as shown in Fig 3 below

Fig 3: Choose the the scanning mode

Step 4: Finally click on “Repair” button to start the fixing process. Once the scanning process is finished all the recovered Outlook folders along with their contents will be displayed.

Fig 4: Evaluate Recovery Results

Note: You can only save the recovered Outlook folders in case you’re using the full version of this Outlook recovery tool. Demo version is only for the evaluation of the folder recovery chances.