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Deleted messages, where do they go?

[quote user="Elaine T"]If I want to undelete messages, is it possible?  My settings are to scrub the delete folder when I close Pmail.[/quote]

It depends on where the message was stored: If in the new mail folder you could try a file restore utility, but doing so after having continued to work on your computer makes it rather unlikely you'd be able to restore the deleted CNM-file as each file write operation after deletion raises the chance of overwriting the deleted file's data. If it was stored in a folder which hasn't been compressed after deletion you may try to reindex the folder which will bring back any deleted messages not yet "compressed" and probably reset flags on other messages.

<p>[quote user="Elaine T"]If I want to undelete messages, is it possible?  My settings are to scrub the delete folder when I close Pmail.[/quote]</p><p>It depends on where the message was stored: If in the new mail folder you could try a <a href="http://www.piriform.com/recuva" mce_href="http://www.piriform.com/recuva" target="_blank">file restore utility</a>, but doing so after having continued to work on your computer makes it rather unlikely you'd be able to restore the deleted CNM-file as each file write operation after deletion raises the chance of overwriting the deleted file's data. If it was stored in a folder which hasn't been compressed after deletion you may try to reindex the folder which will bring back any deleted messages not yet "compressed" and probably reset flags on other messages.</p>
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If I want to undelete messages, is it possible?  My settings are to scrub the delete folder when I close Pmail.  So I realize this morning I deleted something I should have kept last night before shutting down.  Can I find a trash folder somewhere and undelete?  Or am I out of luck?

 I've searched the forum for undeleting but all I found discusses fishing messages out of the delete folder, which makes me think I'm out of luck, but I figure I should make sure.

Thanks

 

<p>If I want to undelete messages, is it possible?  My settings are to scrub the delete folder when I close Pmail.  So I realize this morning I deleted something I should have kept last night before shutting down.  Can I find a trash folder somewhere and undelete?  Or am I out of luck?</p><p> I've searched the forum for undeleting but all I found discusses fishing messages out of the delete folder, which makes me think I'm out of luck, but I figure I should make sure. </p><p>Thanks</p><p> </p>
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