How to recover deleted email files

Every now and then we need to download some important email in order to keep it on our computer. However, it can also happen that this file is off unintentionally, and thinking about these occasions, we are going to show you some ways on how to recover deleted email files from your computer. In addition, we will also talk about recovering emails (gmail) through the platform itself.

Retrieve Email from Gmail

before we see how to recover files from emails, let's go to the simplest, which is precisely to understand how to recover emails from Gmail through the platform itself. If you turned off, unintentionally or unintentionally, an email and want to recover it, it is very easy to get it back — reiterating that this way only works if the email has been deleted within a period of up to 30 days, for the occasions that emails have been deleted that are more than 30 days old, we will talk about how to proceed.

1. Every email that was deleted within 30 days can be recovered at the Trash can, a feature that is available on the left toolbar. So the first step is: click on the Recycle Bin;

2. Search for the email you would like to recover, if you still can't find it, you can also use the Search Bar which is at the top of the screen. To do so, enter words that are contained in the email you want to retrieve. Once you find it, click on the square on the left side (next to the Star);

3. After tagging the email, click the folder icon with an arrow pointing to the right, “move to“, and choose where you want to send that email. In this case we suggest you move to the “Inbox“. That way you don't run the risk of losing the email that is in the trash, because once these items are in the trash, Gmail itself will definitely delete them within 30 days.

How to recover files from emails

1. Now if you downloaded an email, deleted this file and want to recover it, there is also a solution! In this case we suggest the application 4DDiG to perform the recovery. So the first step is download 4DDiG which can be purchased in a free trial format. For Mac users there is also a version of 4DDiG for macOS.

2. Once downloaded, open the application, at this point some introductory screens will appear, including one that takes you to a Web page which will give a brief guide on how to use 4DDiG.

3. Now that you are on the app homepage, select the location where you want recover deleted email files, after that click on “Start “, in the lower right corner.

4. At this moment, the application will scan the location and verify which files were deleted, it will be able to identify files such as photos, videos, various documents, audios and even e-mails. As soon as the scanning step is finished, you can verify that in the left column there are all types of files that can be found, and since we are talking about emails, click on “E-mail".

5. Now just select all those files you want to recover and click on the lower right button, “Recover“. Ready!

Retrieve email from Google Support

If none of the suggestions were able to solve your case, you can also check with Google itself if it is possible to recover the email that was deleted. In this case, you must access the Gmail Help to have recently deleted files scanned. If the files are still available on Google's servers, you can redeem them. Otherwise you will be notified by the site about the permanent deletion of these files.

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