Approach to Recover Deleted Emails from Entourage
MS Entourage is an email application that is used to save large number of emails, contacts, notes, calendars, images and many more. It is similar to database that stores all valuable data under one roof. Users may delete useless emails, which are also known as junk mails. However, while deleting useless emails sometimes by mistake important data also get deleted. It creates a data loss situation, which results hazardous. In the following section, we will discuss the reason of data deletion and way to recover deleted emails from Entourage.
How Entourage Emails Get Deleted
There are various reasons due to which Entourage emails may be removed from user’s system. Many times emails are removed from its database due to corruption reasons. Many times, entourage emails are deleted due to many more reasons such as internet disconnection, incomplete installation of Entourage application, misconfiguration of Mac system files, virus infection, large size of Entourage database, infected files in contents of email, etc. After the deletion of emails from Entourage application, users will see that the system will not display any inbox mails and treat as a new user.
One such problem that is faced by users is discussed below, which is taken from the forum’s site.
“I use Entourage as an email application on my system. While working on it I receive an attachment via mail, which was virus infected and probably corrupted my database. As a result, a few of my emails got deleted unknowingly. Now, I do not know how to recover deleted emails from Entourage, as I urgently need them because it contains all my organization records. Can anyone suggest me the way to get out of the situation?”
Technique to Recover Deleted Emails From Entourage
Entourage is an email application that is specially designed for sending and receiving various types of emails and attachment files. However, many times, users receive emails from other sources may be removed or deleted. After the deletion of emails from Entourage application, user will see that the system will not display any inbox mails and treat as a new user. In such a situation Time machine backup is the only way that helps to get back the deleted emails manually. It involves various steps to recover deleted emails from Entourage as mentioned:
- Select the Finder option from dock.
- Choose the application folder and launch the time machine by double-click on “Time Machine.”
- Single finder window will appear and desktop will animate off screen.
- Now click on MS User Data.
- Select Office Identities and then, choose Main Identity option.
- Find the date from which back up is required.
- Click Database file and select the restore option.
- Now permit Time Machine to backup file.
- Once the process is completed the message will pop-up on the screen.
Note: This method will only work if time machine backup was enabled at the time of deletion of Entourage emails.
Conclusion
With the deletion of emails from the email application, users face various issues. Users search various methods to recover deleted emails from Entourage; in this discussion, a way is described that can helps users to retrieve their deleted emails using a tool which can convert Entourage emails to Outlook. If any issue is faced in recovery or deleted or lost emails from Entourage, feel free to contact me through contact us form and the matter will further be looked into by experts.