In this technical world emails have by far became the foremost important part of life. And that's why the demand for desktop email client like Microsoft Outlook comes in handy. In our professional routine life whenever we start our computer, the first thing we do is check our emails and reply them according to priority. Further, we delete all useless emails that are also known as Junk emails. Also in order to avoid slew of Spam emails, there are plenty of emails that we delete on daily and weekly basis. Sometimes, unintentionally users press shift + delete key for important Outlook items that can't be recovered from 'Deleted items folder' and thus the demand to recover deleted item from Outlook comes in need.
We would like to let users know about the concept of deletion in Outlook account. If we conclude we can say that there are two types of deletion i.e. Soft deletion and Hard deletion.
Soft Deletion: Whenever user delete any item like emails, contacts, notes, calendars and journals etc in Outlook account by pressing just delete key, it automatically goes in 'Deleted items folder' and can be restored at the time of need, this is called soft deletion.
Hard Deletion: Occurs when a mail directly has been deleted from an 'Deleted Item' folder by pressing Shift + Delete key or if the user using an email client that doesn't switch the deleted items to deleted items folder example: post office protocol 3 and Internet access protocol 4 directly deleted the item in spite of moving it to an deleted item folder.
If Outlook is not integrated with an Exchange server and emails are downloading from a POP3 server, then by using a Hex Editor with scanpst.exe tool you can recover deleted items from Outlook.
Inbuilt scanpst.exe utility has a functionality to look the flagged parts as deleted & rebuild connection during scanning Outlook PST files. It assures the proper formatted entry of message, folder and subfolder in index file. If there is some mistake in entry than scanpst.exe corrects it and if there is no entry it correct the format. Now corrupt PST data structure using Hex Editor and after that scan it through Inbox Repair tool.
Note: To know about Scanpst.exe in Detail follow the link: How scanpst.exe works
If you don't see the deleted item in the recover PST file, then might be scanpst.exe is not capable to recover the item as it is not designed for recover deleted outlook emails trick.
Note: We recommend users not to compact PST file when any data is hardly deleted from Outlook account as the process of compacting PST files lead to over write the white space created in between PST files while deleting any data from PST file. These deleted items can't be recovered manually a third party data recovery tools are hired, the concept is called hard deletion in Outlook.
When the search is for third party tool Recover deleted Outlook email folders is best choice to get back deleted, corrupted, formatted, or lost data from PST file effectively. The tool is built with advance scanning modes that scans PST file accordingly and recover necessary PST file item that were lost. In addition the restore deleted outlook items tool also support recovery of password protected PST file and conversion into multiple file format like EML and MSG file format effectively.