How do you recover Outlook 2003 "Deleted Items"?

See this link:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/ha011165281033.aspx

Make sure you have the retention period set on exchange default I think is 7 days:

http://www.petri.co.il/using_outlook_2003_to_recover_deleted_items.htm

This link goes through how to recover the data from a raw PST file:

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/recover_deleted.htm

I have never tried it, but it is the only information I could find.

Sorry was not trying to give you the wring info should have read your post carefully

Happens to all of us from time to time...

:) Cant find anything else other then what DrUltima has posted

I checked out the url DrUltima pointed out by prior to this post. I'm just a little nervous about running a "hex editor". Obviously,  I will make a backup of the PST file.

I lloked at his site as well. It appears to look easier to perform
http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1pt1v0Q4vD8jSvNS4lqdAuug!391.entry

Has anyone used either option to restore the Deleted Items?

I have not used the above procedure before

I just tested the above procedure... It worked on a small PST file but not on a large one.

DrUltima, your right. I tried to run the debug option and got a "insufficient memory" error because the PST I was working on was over 600 MB. I think I read that it has to be under 512MB. I didnt try the other option using the hex editor tool.

I downloaded and ran this tool.
http://www.recover-my-email.com/

It appeared to scan the file and found several deleted emails but not the ones I was missing. The tool had a particular "search" algorithm. Sometimes I would search for an email address and it would find it. I'd try it again and then it wouldnt find it. I did the online chat. the tech did not know the product at all. She had to put me on hold and ask the developers. It was a $99 program if I were to buy it but it didnt find what I needed to restore. All I can think of is that the PST file may have been compacted at some given time. The product CHCW recomended is way out of the price range.

It apppears over all that there is no sure way to gaurantee recovery. Your chances are better if the PST file is smaller.

I lot of my research shows that a PST file can be better recovered from an Exchange Server but its worth the effort to try manually or using 3rd party software to recover data. Thanks