Recover Permanently Deleted Emails in Outlook 2013, 2016 in Windows OS

How to Recover Permanently Deleted Emails in Outlook 2013, 2016?

Are you looking for an answer on how to recover permanently deleted emails in Outlook 2013? Well, do not despair as the solution is very straightforward. The post deals with multiple manuals as well as automated approaches to extract permanently deleted emails in Outlook 2016 and other below versions.

Solution: Recover Permanently Deleted Emails in Outlook 2013

The best and preferable solution to recover hard deleted emails in Outlook account is to go for SysTools Outlook PST Recovery Tool. The application helps to retrieve Outlook PST items such as emails, contacts, calendars, tasks, notes, journals etc. without any data loss. The utility guarantees to bring back your precious data items without even affecting the data integrity and formatting. This is one of the most recommended applications available to repair Microsoft Outlook PST file related issues.

The following section discusses various manual solutions for the users who do not want to purchase the software discussed above. But as a technical expert on Microsoft Outlook for many years, I don’t prefer non-technical users to go for the below-discussed methods. It is highly dangerous to play with your precious data. Still, there is a hope for the try. But it is difficult to recover permanently deleted emails in Outlook 2013, 2016 and all other lower versions manually after 30 days of deletion.

Workaround Solution to Retrieve Shift-Deleted Emails in Outlook

There are multiple methods to recover permanently deleted emails from Outlook 2010 and other below versions. Let us explore each method in detail.

Approach 1: Extract Deleted Items from Outlook Account

The items which are removed from Outlook and Exchange Server complicates the matter, but users can retrieve the deleted items. If the network is secure, the data present will always be safe. But, there are many places where the emails can be stored. If users delete any email permanently it may seem like it is gone forever, but it is present in Recover Deleted Items. It can be accessed when users enable DumpsterAlwaysOn key.

• The deleted items can also be recovered using the retention policy of deleted item in Microsoft Exchange. It prevents users from removing emails from the folder named Recover Deleted Items.
• If users have an archived email, it might arrive somewhere in the network. There are different places to view. But, if there is a proper network security, data is secure and users need compliance with an already existing law.

The key called DumpsterAlwaysOn is valid for all the versions of MS Outlook where it can be utilized with the Exchange server mailboxes.

In Outlook 2007 and other higher versions, it is not needed to add this key to the registry so as to fetch data from default mailboxes.

By setting a value in Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016, users can enable the recovery of a deleted item in case of the shared mailbox.

With this value specified to 1, users can recover deleted items from any folder. Users are recommended to set some values to 0 to deactivate it for each folder and deleted items folder.

In order to activate DumpsterAlwaysOn key, launch registry editor and browse to:

In case, users do not want to modify the registry, they can utilize this specific file to set it as a DumpsterAlwaysOn registry file. This registry file is present on the local machine. Firstly, users should save the file and then, launch it using the hard drive. Now, right click on it and select the option of Save target as.

Then, use an option of Open folder and double-click on downloaded files. Afterward, users can restart the Outlook program and check that whether deleted items are there in the MS Outlook. This is one of the best manual approaches to recover permanently deleted emails in Outlook 2013, 2016 and all other versions.

Approach 2: Extract Items Which are Not Present in Deleted Item Folder

If users cannot find any items in deleted items folder, the next place to go is Recoverable Items folder. This is the hidden folder and a place where all the items will be present after users perform any of the activity:

• Delete an email from the Deleted Items folder
• Users empty all the deleted items folder
• Users permanently delete the items from Outlook account

1. In Microsoft Outlook account, move to Email folder list and then, hit on Deleted item


Note: If users do not see Deleted Items folder, but instead of it trash folder is displayed, it means that account does not support the recovery of items which are no longer present in Deleted Items folder.


2. At upper left-hand corner, make sure Home is selected. Choose an option of Recover Deleted Items from the server.


Note: If Recover deleted items from the server are not present, it means that account does not allows to recover permanently deleted emails in Outlook 2013 and any other editions. Ensure your Outlook account is configured with Exchange account.


3. Select the items which you want to restore, choose the radio button of Restore Selected Items and press on OK

Approach 3: Extract Outlook Items Using Previous Versions Option

In this section, another manual solution is explained to restore shift-deleted emails in Outlook 2013 and other versions like Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, 2016 etc. Here, an option of the Previous Version is used. The users can go through the below steps to recover permanently deleted emails in Outlook 2013 and other editions:

1. Move to the desired folder where the PST files are saved
2. In the next step, right click on a specific folder
3. From the menu bar, choose Restore Previous Versions
4. Now, a File Properties dialog box will emerge on the screen and all the Previous Versions tab will be activated
5. Double click on the latest folder and view all the content
6. If the folder contains any missing PST files, users can select them and copy. After that, paste these PST files in the original location.
• If the restore folder does not contain PST files, close it and launch less current editions until the desired folder is found.
• If folder consists of PST which no longer exist, right-click on one level higher folder (parent folder) and commence the procedure of “Restore Previous Versions”. This is to check if it still contains a copy of the particular folder.

Enable Previous Version Option in MS Outlook

The users can enable “Previous Versions” for all the system drive using these steps: Note before you could recover permanently deleted emails in Outlook 2013, go through the following. To recover permanently deleted emails, contacts, calendars, tasks, notes, journals in Outlook, using this Previous Version option, it should have enabled even before. That is, the users who haven’t enabled this option even before deletion of those items, cannot do anything with this method.

1. Move to Start icon, hit on Control Panel >> System and Security >> System
2. Another method to do this right-click on the computer system in the start menu and choose Properties
3. From the left panel, click on System Protection. A dialog box will open up, listing all the drives and indication which hard drive is protected or not
4. Select the desired drive that you want to preserve and hit on Configure
5. You can set the restore settings to extract all the previous editions of files
6. You can use a slider to set the number of spaces of the hard drive for previous editions. If new copies are generated and much space is not available, then previous copies are automatically deleted.

Also Read: How to fix Microsoft Outlook errors and its solutions

Time to Wrap Up

If a user permanently deletes an Outlook email, calendars, contacts, tasks, notes, journals, etc. it is not gone forever. It can still be retrieved using various approaches. The post explains multiple manual solutions to recover permanently deleted emails in Outlook 2013, 2016 and other versions like Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010 etc. However, if none of the methods work, users can use an automated solution like Outlook Recovery as discussed in the top part of the blog. It is a professional approach to retrieve shift-deleted emails in Outlook. Moreover, it is supported in all Windows versions. Also, it provides data safety and security during the recovering process.

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