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February 17, 2022 at 7:55 pm #17843
While MS Outlook is certainly only of the most resourceful email clients out there, using it can be a bit complicated at times. For instance, a while back, I was working on my system when MS Outlook crashed and I couldn’t recover my emails. This made me look for ways to recover a draft email in Outlook. To help you, I have come up with this detailed guide on how to recover Outlook draft emails without any hassle.
Method 1: Check the Drafts Folder
Before you take any drastic measures, make sure that you have checked the Drafts folder in your Outlook. Ideally, Outlook automatically saves unsent emails in the Drafts and your email might be there all along.For this, just go to your Outlook account and click on the “Drafts” category from the sidebar. Here, you can view the saved emails in Drafts, view any email, and recover them easily.
Method 2: Undo the Action in Outlook
For all those who have deleted their drafts email in Outlook by mistake, they can simply “undo” the action. As soon as you delete the draft email, just go to the toolbar (or the quick menu option) and click on the undo icon. Besides that, you can just press the Ctrl + Z keys at the same time to undo the action and recover the draft email in Outlook.Method 3: Recover the Draft email on Outlook via Deleted Items
At times, when Outlook crashes, the draft emails are moved to the Deleted Items folder instead. Therefore, to learn how to recover an Outlook draft email, you can visit the Deleted Items folder instead from the sidebar. In some Outlook versions, you can find this option on the main navigation bar instead.Method 4: Repair the Outlook PST File
If your Outlook is crashed and you have to recover your emails, then you can consider repairing the PST file of the application. To do this, you can use any PST repairing tool like Stellar Repair for Outlook.Once you launch the application, you can browse and load the corrupt PST file to it. Later, it will take the needed steps to repair your Outlook drafts. You can even preview the repaired emails and extract them from here.
Ref: https://recoverit.wondershare.com/recover-email/recover-draft-email-in-outlook.html
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February 17, 2022 at 7:57 pm #17844Point to note, if you have closed Outlook and then open it several hours later after you realise you have lost the draft e-mail, then the above options are less likely to work
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February 18, 2022 at 2:43 am #17847Why not just using MS Office built in tools from Office program folder?
scanpst.exe (for ost and pst)
scanost.exe (on office <2007)You need to login in order to vote
February 18, 2022 at 8:47 am #17852scanpst.exe is a great tool for repairing Outlook personal folder file (.pst) etc.
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