For most people retrieving emails is the most difficult type of data recovery. Usually this is because the messages that have been lost were deleted on an account using web based email. These free email accounts such as offered by AOL, Yahoo and Gmail automatically delete messages after certain periods of time have passed. These free services also delete emails that have been placed in the trash bin within around 48 HRS. Because of this, most people assume that messages deleted from a web based email server can never be recovered. Actually this is untrue as there are many circumstances under which retrieving deleted email is entirely possible. The first of these occurs when email was sent and received using a local email clients such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. These two email clients save their file types PST and DBX respectively directly onto your computer’s hard drive.
To rescue these lost emails all you need do is load File Finder onto your computer and have it search through your hard drive for any deleted files bearing these extensions. Retrieving deleted emails that were sent and received only by using a web based service is a little trickier. Assuming you have opened and read the message before deleting it, File Finder can scan through your hard drive and recover that lost message as part of the temporary internet files. Complete instructions for email recovery are included with the File Finder software.
