Recovering emails is a very simple process. However you will need a little background information and the special tool to complete the job. Emails are sent, received and stored in two very specific ways. The first that most people are familiar with is web based email. This is the free service you receive from popular web portals such as AOL and Yahoo. As long as you do not mind looking at ads while you check your mail, these are pretty good services. However when you lose any mail on a web based service, it can be very challenging to find and recover it. In fact recovering deleted email lost on a web based service is one of the most difficult data recovery tasks there is.
The other situation from which you may need assistance in recovering deleted emails is when you are sending, receiving, and storing your emails on your computer’s hard drive by means of what is known as an email client. Examples of popular email clients are Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. Recovering deleted emails from these is fairly simple. In both email recovery situations File Finder is the tool you need to locate your lost messages and recover them. When using an email client you merely have to use File Finder to scan your hard drive for the appropriate client file extension. For example, Outlook Express emails all share the extension DBX. Retrieving lost emails that were sent or received on a web based email service is far more difficult. Provided you have at one time or another opened that email to look at it, you should be able to retrieve it with File Finder. To do this you will need to use File Finder for a very thorough and complete search of your hard drive. Once this is complete, look through the entire list of recoverable files that File Finder has created for files marked temp Internet. It may take quite a while to recover and open each of these files but one of them will be your lost message.
