How to recover deleted draft emails in Outlook?
In Outlook, we may run into situations that we mistakenly deleted the draft email messages while trashing unwanted emails. Is it possible to "recover the deleted draft emails" by any means? The answer is "yes". In this tutorial, we will introduce methods to get back the deleted draft emails you need.
Note: Here takes "Microsoft Outlook 365" as an instance, the steps and descriptions may have some differences in other Outlook versions.
- Using drag and drop to recover deleted draft emails
- Using the Move feature to recover deleted draft emails
Using the Move feature to recover deleted draft emails
Usually after you delete a draft email, it goes directly to the "Deleted Items folder". To recover it, there are two simple methods to get the job done.
Using drag and drop to recover deleted draft emails
1. As the below screenshot shows, an important draft email was deleted by mistake, and it went to the" Deleted Items" folder.
2. In the "Deleted Items" folder, select the draft email you want to recover and "drag and drop" it to the "Drafts" folder.
Note: You can decide to which folder you want to drag and drop the draft email. But please remember the folder name in case you fail to locate the recovered draft email.
Using the Move feature to recover deleted draft emails
1. In this case, two draft emails are in the "Deleted Items" folder, both of which need to be recovered. Please see the screenshot below.
2. Select the two draft emails by holding the "Ctrl" key or the "Shift" key, "right-click" on one draft email, then click "Move" > "Drafts" to move the two deleted draft emails back to the "Draft" folder.
Note: You can move the deleted draft emails to other folders if you want by clicking "Move" > "Other Folder".
Then in the popped-up "Move Items" dialog, choose the desired folder as you wish. You can even click the "New" button to create a new folder to store the recovered draft emails.
Recover permanently deleted draft emails
Sometimes when you want to track the deleted draft emails in the Deleted Items folder, you can’t find them there. To get back the deleted draft emails you need, please do as follows.
Note: The "Recover Deleted Items" command mentioned in this section is only available for "Exchange account".
1. Click to select the" Drafts" folder, then go to the "Folder" tab, and click "Recover Deleted Items" in the "Clean Up" section.
2. The "Recover Deleted Items" dialog box pops up. You can sort the deleted items by clicking one column name from the "Subject" column, the" Deleted On" column, and the "From" column. Here I clicked the "Deleted On" column to sort the items from the "newest" date to the "oldest".
3. Now select the draft emails you want to recover by holding the "Ctrl" key or the" Shift" key and selecting the items, or click the "Select All" button if you want to recover all the items. Here I just want to recover the first two items.
4. Make sure you select the Restore Selected Items option down below. Then click the "OK" button.
5. Now the selected draft emails will be recovered and moved to the "Draft" folder.
Notes:
1. You can also select the "Deleted Items" folder to recover deleted items. Like the below screenshot shows.
After you restore the selected items, these selected draft emails will be recovered and moved to the "Deleted Items" folder.
2. To make things even simpler, you can click the "Recover items recently removed from this folder" option in the "Deleted Items" folder.
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