Restore Deleted Emails from Hotmail
This article teaches you how to recover emails that you deleted from your Hotmail (now Microsoft Outlook) trash folder within the past 14 days.
Contents
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1. Open Outlook.
2. Right-click Deleted Items.
3. Click Recover Deleted Items.
4. Check each email you wish to recover.
5. Click Recover.
6. Click OK.
Steps
- Open the Outlook webpage. Doing so will open your Microsoft Outlook inbox if you're logged in.
- If you aren't logged in, click Sign In, type in your email address, click Next, enter your password, and click Sign In.
- Right-click Deleted Items. It's on the left side of the screen, toward the bottom of the list of inbox folders.
- If you're using a Mac, use two fingers to click Deleted Items.
- Click Recover Deleted Items. This option is near the bottom of the right-click menu. Doing so will prompt a second Outlook page to pop up.
- If your browser blocks pop-up windows, you may have to click the "blocked pop-up" icon in the top right corner of the URL bar and then allow pop-ups from Outlook to open the recovery page.
- Click the checkbox to the left of each email you want to restore. Any emails you've deleted from the Trash folder in the last 14 days will appear here.
- If you don't see any emails here, your deleted emails are past the recovery point.
- You can use the search bar at the top of the page to search for specific emails.
- Click Recover. It's in the top left corner of the page.
- You can also click Purge to the right of the Recover option to delete your selected emails.
- Click OK. Doing so will restore the selected emails to your inbox.
Tips
- Windows Live, Hotmail, and Outlook are all one and the same.
- You can use your Skype username or phone number to sign into Outlook if you don't remember your email address.
Warnings
- If your emails have been deleted for more than 14 days, you can't recover them.
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