I need to know who can help my aunt recover some lost files. All the details I know are as follows. They're email files. It's a PC laptop. She thinks they were on the hard drive at one time. Someone deleted them. Please pm me. Thanks!
had some good luck with this http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ But it only does popular extensions like .doc, .html etc. There are many programs out there.. try google.
I've had decent luck with a free program called Restoration for undeleting files. http://jon.swelter.net/rest2514/ It depends how long the files have been deleted, they may have been overwritten by now. And you have to know what you're looking for, I know some email programs save the email in obscure locations. Also, if it's just a few messages that have been deleted, they could have been part of a larger file that contained all the messages, then it's not really possible to get back those few messages.
Emails are stored on the server. You simply download a copy. Depending on how your email is setup on the server; it might delete that original or it might save it for a while. Try contacting whoever hosts her email and ask if it could be recoverd that way.
Assuming that someone is hosting them, of course... I have Outlook on my home computer and everything is downloaded and deleted on the server. I leave my work email on the server, though.
Someone IS hosting her email. Just a matter of how her email box and the server is setup. Sometimes the server keeps a copy for a set amount of time; despite your email clients actions.
