


This method will also work with IMAP accounts in Outlook 2013 and up IF you have a copy of the IMAP data file. If too much time has passed you are less likely to have a restore point available. If you deleted the Exchange account, you may be able to recover the account if your operating system supports system restore and you only recently deleted the account. If using Outlook 2007 or newer, you can send your entire calendar as an iCal.Ĭheck company policies before taking home the contents of your mailbox. If you don't have many calendar or contacts, you can forward them to a personal address. If your company uses a group policy that blocks PST creation, your choices are limited to exporting calendar and contacts to CSV (or Excel, if you have Excel at home). Many of the companies that have OST to PST recovery software also have file recovery software. To see if the OST exists, type or paste %localappdata%\microsoft\outlook into the address bar of File Explorer. You will need to use software to undelete files from your hard drive, but successful recovery depends on how much time has passed between deleting the account and running the undelete software as Windows will overwrite the deleted files. If you deleted the account from Outlook and did not export the contents to a pst file or copied the OST file, your chances of recovering data is not good.

Beginning with Outlook 2013, Outlook was designed to permanently delete the OST data file when the account is removed from Outlook.
