My Outlook 2003 settings archived old messages to C:, and then the hard drive broke. The IT people at my office scrapped the drive, and the archive is gone. Is there any way to recover lost messages from others in my office who received them from me or sent them to me? I could simply forward my old messages from their machines back to me, but better would restore them in my computer as original in my sent and in boxes. Many thanks. Fred
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Recover e-mail from another machine
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Nope. That's why companies rarely recommend you archive mail to your local PC. Nothing but a bad idea. Email should be archived at the email server level and that's all.
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Actually, the manual restore worked well, if not completely. I had copied my supervisor on most e-mails and they remained in her Inbox. I recovered them from her computer by sending myself new Outlook messages from her computer and ATTACHING my old messages to them (in groups of about 20, dragged from the In box to the attachment box). After I received the new messages with attachments in Outlook on my computer, I dragged the attachments to my Sent box where they restored just as at first and with original time stamps. I did the same basic procedure to recover old e-mails sent to me. I recovered more than a thousand messages this way, and it very much reduced the damage. Thank you.
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That's the "redneck" way of doing it, but your question was answered correctly that there is no technical way of getting the e-mails back from a backup source. You just pieced things together.
And if you weren't a mega-CCer, you wouldn't have had anything. So from now on, don't let your archive sit on your local HDD, por favor.
And if you weren't a mega-CCer, you wouldn't have had anything. So from now on, don't let your archive sit on your local HDD, por favor.
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