Help - how to restore a hard-deleted subfolder?

[Striver]

I accidentally hard-deleted an Inbox subfolder (and its subfolders) and would
like to recover it. The .dbx appears to be intact; I also back up my system
to Mozy, and can retrieve the Outlook file(s) from there. Is there any way I
can get the subfolder back? I assumed a system restore would be ineffective
(tried it; it was).

I'm using Outlook 2003 running under XP on a local, non-networked desktop.

 

[K. Orland]

Outlook doesn't use a .dbx file, it uses a .pst file. Can you verify what you
have copies of?

 

[Striver]

I'm using Outlook 2003 (from Office Small Business Edition). There's an
Outlook.pst and an Archive.pst on the drive (there are also .dbx files
corresponding to each subfolder, etc. for some reason - I looked at one in
wordpad and it appeared to contain message text).

Thanks,
Striver

 

[K. Orland]

Your email, everything from Outlook Today to Tasks, is contained in your PST
file. You should have two; the default names are outlook.pst and archive.pst.

Hard-deleting folder bypasses your Deleted Items folder.

If you have an Exchange e-mail account, if your Administrator has enabled
Deleted Item Retention you can recover the folder. Open your Deleted Items
folder. Click on Tools > Recover Deleted Items and you should find everything
you've deleted in the amount of days your Exchange Admin has set the server
to retain them for.

If you use a PST and wish to recover an item after you've emptied your
Deleted Items folder, try this method:

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/restoredeleteditemsfromanoutlookpst.htm