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Recover Deleted Items

Need that important e-mail that you deleted a day or so ago? Don’t despair; you can recover deleted items in Outlook even after the "Deleted Items" folder has been emptied. Outlook gives you one last chance to retrieve the e-mail that you thought was gone forever.

• While in Outlook, select your Deleted Items folder. Then from the drop-down menus, select Tools and then Recover Deleted Items. 
• To recover items, simply select them by clicking on them and then click the Recover Selected Items button.
• You can hold down the Ctrl button to select more than one e-mail. 
• The items will be returned to your Deleted Items folder. You can then move them to other folders (ex: Inbox or Archive).

Note: The system keeps recoverable items for only a few days after they have been deleted and emptied.