Know How to Recover Deleted Emails from OST Files 

The Microsoft Exchange account mailbox makes a cached copy known as the OST files. These files contain the exact data that is stored in the user’s Exchange account mailbox. You can say its a copy of your Exchange Mailbox. This copy gets stored in your local system only that can be open with the Microsoft Outlook application. If somehow emails from your OST file got deleted and you want to recover deleted emails from the OST file then, you are in the exact place. 

There can be various issues that have caused OST data deletion. It can intentionally or accidentally be deleted. Or it can be a technical error or virus attack. OST files might have corrupted. Whatever the reason is, your emails have been lost. 

Don’t worry SysTools has designed Outlook Deleted File Recovery software. It can recover deleted items from OST, PST, and BAK files. 

But before we get to the tool, let us discuss some manual methods that you must try before getting the above professional automated tool. 

Types & Reasons for OST Emails & Other Data Deletion

You should be aware of the type of deletion you are facing. Have your OST emails temporarily deleted that we also called a soft deletion. Or your emails are permanently removed from the OST files. This is the case of a hard deletion. 

Data Deleted From The OST File

• Soft Deletion/ Temporarily Deleted: In this kind of deletion, your data is not permanently deleted from your system. It has been moved to another folder called the ‘Deleted Item’ folder. You can restore your deleted OST emails from this folder.
• Hard Deletion/ Permanently Deleted: This type of deletion is called hard deletion because data from OST files have been permanently removed from your system. You cannot easily restore them. In this case, it is advised to take help from a professional third-party tool as I mentioned above. 

Possibles Reasons For Hard Deletion of OST Emails

1.When the user accidentally presses the Shift+Delete key for deleting an email. This shortcut causes permanent deletion.

2. When users empty their ‘Deleted Item’ Folder that also causes permanent deletion.

Now, let us resolve this problem.

Know How to Recover Deleted Emails From The OST Files

For soft-deleted emails from the OST files, you can simply navigate to the ‘Deleted Item’ folder and restore deleted emails. 

To retrieve hard deleted emails from OST files, you can check the ‘Recover Deleted Items From Server’ folder.  It is a dumpster folder that retains permanently deleted Outlook items up to a certain period defined by the user or admin (retention period). 

One needs to remember you can recover deleted emails from the server only when your Outlook account is connected to the Exchange account. More precisely the time when you lost your emails your account must have been connected to the Exchange server. 

Limitation of Manual Ways to Recover Outlook Data

• You cannot retrieve deleted emails from an orphan OST file.
• Your OST files should not be corrupt. 

Professional Automated Tool to Recover Deleted OST Emails 

SysTools Outlook Deleted Emails Recovery tool is a professional automated tool to retrieve deleted emails from OST, PST, & BAK files. It will recover other deleted items like calendars, contacts, notes, tasks, journals, and user-created folders.

The most unique feature that this software has is RAW scan. It means it will scan your OST files bit-by-bit. This way it can be guaranteed that you will have a successful and 100% recovery of emails from your OST files.

The software shows a preview of all the files that it founds in your Outlook files. All the recovered files will be shown in Red color.

You can also export recovered items to another file format like PST, MSG, EML, PDF, HTML. You can also shift your emails to Office 365 Microsoft Outlook account.

Conclusion

There can any reason that you lost emails from the OST file. If the emails are temporarily deleted from the file, you can restore them from the ‘Deleted Item’ folder. In the case of permanent deletion, it is advised to use the professional third-party automated tool to recover deleted emails from OST files. SysTools Outlook Deleted Emails Recovery tool is the best utility as it guaranteed 100% recovery emails and other items.