How to protect/Avoid deleting personal folders.

[Wabes]

I have lost very important personal folders and would like to avoid that
happening again. Is there a way to password protect to avoid deleting a
personal folder when I meant to delete an email.

Not and then I leave a personal folder hilighted when I am deleting an email
and then it is moved to the deleted folder but if I don't catch it when I
empty that folder I can lose and have lost years of history.

 

[Steffen Brandsborg Jensen]

Hi,

Not really, but if you are connecting to an Microsoft Exchange server you
can restore deleted items by: Tools > Recover deleted items

Otherwise i guess you just have to backup your personal folders

 

[DL]

Simple, you keep basckups
The MS site has a free MS outlook backup addin

And what are you doing keeping 'years of history' in a single data file,
have you not looked at Archive?
The backup addin also backs up Archives

 

[JIM]

Backups are all very well; I have my backups and have just used that function
to restore an accidentally deleted folder.

I would rather NOT waste my time restoring a backup and have the folders
protected against deletion in the first place. I found this post becuase I
have just done it and wanted to find a way to not do it again!!!

You can protect normal Windows folders... why not Outlook ones?

 

[Gordon]

Backups are all very well; I have my backups and have just used that
function
to restore an accidentally deleted folder.

I would rather NOT waste my time restoring a backup and have the folders
protected against deletion in the first place. I found this post becuase I
have just done it and wanted to find a way to not do it again!!!

You can protect normal Windows folders... why not Outlook ones?

Err how can you "protect" normal Windows folders?

 

[JIM]

You read this and it tells you how...
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=308419

 

[Gordon]

You read this and it tells you how...
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=308419

But anyone who logs on as an administrator can take ownership and delete.
Simple. There is NO way of stopping anyone who wants to, from deleting
folders in windows, if they have access to the machine.

 

[JIM]

I think you are being just a touch pedantic here... of course you can take
control as an administrator, that's the whole point of the admin account!

But it does stop you accidentally deleting things, I'm not talking military
grade security here; just convenience.

If you can't ACCIDENTALLY delete something, you don't WASTE TIME restoring
it!!!!

 

[Gordon]

I think you are being just a touch pedantic here... of course you can take
control as an administrator, that's the whole point of the admin account!

But it does stop you accidentally deleting things, I'm not talking
military
grade security here; just convenience.

If you can't ACCIDENTALLY delete something, you don't WASTE TIME restoring
it!!!!

Quite true - but you can't protect YOURSELF from deleting folder and files
to which YOU have full access.....changing permissions does nothing to stop
that.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

You can protect normal Windows folders... why not Outlook ones?

Because they're not real. They're keys in a database presented to you in
such as way as to look like folders and they don't have the same types of
metastructures as file system objects.