[Nick B]

A few days ago, early in the morning while still sleepy, I opened my email. Had to resize, double clicked quickly and somehow  lost/deleted the emails kept in my inbox. It's not in recycle. Any suggestions on where I might be able to locate it? All of the sent email and folders I created are fine. Found a recovery program called Recuva. The scan for documents showed what could be recovered, but it does not list the time of day when the emails disappeared. Any suggestions appreciated.

[satfrat]

If you have a hotmail account you might want to take a look there for copies,,,,,

[Nick B]

If you have a hotmail account you might want to take a look there for copies,,,,,

Do have earthlink and some messages are there, but have cleaned out a lot due to space limitations. Am looking if there is a way to forward them as a group rather than individually

[Levi]

If you are connected to an MS Exchange server and using Outlook 2002 or later, there is a way to recover your deleted items.  Since you are using SMTP or Imap (Earthlink) to be exact, the likely hood of recovering deleted emails are slim to none.

[Nick B]

I appreciate the clarification. Could I get your opinion of the Mozilla email program? I don't know anyone who uses it. Is that a user friendly email program you'd recommend or maybe another one? Just need minimal features.
Thanks
 

[Levi]

I have not used or seen Mozilla email program so I cannot say much about it. 

Outlook/Outlook Express to me is simple but I figured you don't want to use Outlook again.  Try Earthlink WebAccess...https://webmail.earthlink.net/wam/login.jsp?redirect=%2Fwam%2Findex.jsp&x=257400475

Levi

[mcullinan]

I use Entourage on Mac for my email, and I know you can rebuild and sometimes repair your email box by holding down option when you start up. Maybe their is something somiliar in Outlook.
Mike

[Red Dragon Audio]

I use the Mozilla Thunderbird email application - when outlooked crashed on me a year or two ago I was not able to recover anything.  However the .pst file loaded right into Thunderbird and I have not looked back.  I have found Mozilla products to be very versatile and the other benefit is the huge array of custom plugins/modules.

If you continue with Outlook consider making a backup .pst every so often. 

[Levi]

I like this feature in Outlook/Exchange 2003.  "Recover Deleted Items"

[bricktop]

I appreciate the clarification. Could I get your opinion of the Mozilla email program? I don't know anyone who uses it. Is that a user friendly email program you'd recommend or maybe another one? Just need minimal features.
Thanks
 

Great program.  Highly recommended.  Much safer than outlook and easy to use.

[Nick B]

Thanks for the comments and help. I Found an old Thunderbird setup I had from March 2007 and installed the program. The program took all of Outlook's folders as of that date. I didn't allow it to be the default program yet. T/Bird seems like a very user friendly program. I have never "imported" any material before. When T/Bird imports it from Outlook to become completely current, will there remain a copy on Outlook or does it all come over? I think you can sense some "concern" on my part about somehow losing more information to cyberspace. Will also check out re account settings........