How to Recover Deleted Outlook Items from 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007

In this blog, I have explained the manual solution to recover deleted items in Outlook 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007 step by step with proper screenshots. Also, you will find an alternate solution because manual solution does not recover permanently deleted items from Microsoft Outlook.

As we are discussing about the deletion of data in Microsoft Outlook, so let’s know about the types of deletion. There are two types deletion i,e; Soft Deletion and Hard Deletion. Let’s explore in brief.

Soft Deletion: When you select one or more emails and simply press “Delete” button, then the selected emails will move to the “Deleted Items” folder of Outlook. This deletion method of Microsoft Outlook is named as Soft Deletion. These soft deleted Outlook items can be easily recovered as they are temporary deleted from the database, it’s just moved from one location to another.

Hard Deletion:

Case 1: Delete by Short Keys

In this case, when you press “Shift + Delete” button in combination after selecting emails which you want to delete, they will lost permanently. This type of deletion is known as “Hard Deletion”. You cannot recover deleted Outlook items from “Deleted Items Folder” of Outlook or using any manual solution. In that case, you have to switch on any third party solution which is capable to retrieve deleted items from Outlook.

Case 2: Delete by Following Path

Empty deleted items folder: You can also deleted your PST items permanently by following this path. go to the Tool menu bar >> click on “Empty Deleted Items Folder” option and through this users can get the same result as Shift+Delete result.

Note: Shift+Delete, One of the famous short-key to delete anything permanently is Shift+Delete in Windows. Using this short-key users can delete their emails in Outlook forever. (The given below screen appear when you press Shift+Delete.

Now, we are aware about both Soft and Hard deletion of Outlook items.

Outlook users can easily get back his/her emails in the “Soft deletion” by restoring their emails. Let’s know how to recover Outlook deleted items in different versions.

How to Recover Deleted Items in Outlook 2007

• Step 1: Open Microsoft Outlook 2007.
• Step 2: Select “Deleted Items Folder” from left-pane.
• Step 3: Go to Menu bar. Select “Tools” >> “Recover Deleted Items”.
• Step 4: Recently Outlook deleted items will appear in pop-up window.
• Step 5: Select the emails which you want to recover.
• Step 6: Afterward, the deleted items will be restored.

How to Recover Deleted Items from Outlook 2016

• Step 1: Open Microsoft Outlook 2016.
• Step 2: Select “Deleted Items Folder” from left-pane.
• Step 3: Go to Menu bar. Select “Recover Deleted Items”.
• Step 4: Recently MS Outlook deleted items will appear in a dialog box.
• Step 5: Select the mails which you want to retrieve and click “Recover Selected Items”.
• Step 6: After that all the deleted items will be restored to its original location.
• Note: The above steps is also applicable to Outlook 2013 and 2010But, when we talk about “Hard Deletion” either it is done mistakenly by pressing “Shift+Delete” button or Emptying the deleted item folder it can’t be recovered. In such circumstances, user should go for some external utility that helps in recovery.

  I searched one of the software at Google by the name of Outlook Data Recovery which support almost all version of Outlook like (97, 98, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 , 2013 & 2016). This tool is capable to recover hard deleted or permanently deleted Outlook items easily in few clicks. Let’s know how to retrieve permanently deleted items from Outlook using Outlook recovery tool.

  How to Recover Permanently Deleted Outlook items

• Step 5: Select the mails which you want to retrieve and click “Recover Selected Items”.
• Step 6: After that all the deleted items will be restored to its original location.

Note: The above steps is also applicable to Outlook 2013 and 2010

But, when we talk about “Hard Deletion” either it is done mistakenly by pressing “Shift+Delete” button or Emptying the deleted item folder it can’t be recovered. In such circumstances, user should go for some external utility that helps in recovery.

I searched one of the software at Google by the name of Outlook Data Recovery which support almost all version of Outlook like (97, 98, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 , 2013 & 2016). This tool is capable to recover hard deleted or permanently deleted Outlook items easily in few clicks. Let’s know how to retrieve permanently deleted items from Outlook using  Outlook recovery tool.

How to Recover Permanently Deleted Outlook items

• Step 1: Free download Outlook Recovery Tool >> Install and Run it.
• Step 2: Click on “Add Files” to Add Outlook PST File (Deleted Items).
• Step 3: All Permanently Deleted Outlook Items will appear in Red Colour.
• Step 4: Select PST format and Click on Export button.
• Step 5: After completion, Hard deleted items will be recovered successfully.

Conclusion:

After reading the above content, you are aware about what is soft deletion and hard deletion in Microsoft Outlook. Now, you know how to recover soft deleted Outlook item from “Deleted items folder” of Outlook and what if deleted items gone permanently. In that case, I have mentioned  Outlook Recovery tool to recover Outlook deleted items instantly in few hits.