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carlynugget

How do I restore/recover a discarded draft. Not a deleted email but a draft of an email I accidentally hit discard on?

This is an extremely important draft of an email that I need to recover

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Ben M. Schorr -bschorr

Hmm...you probably can't, unfortunately. Have you checked the Deleted Items folder, just in case?

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carlynugget

Yes, I have checked the deleted folder, advanced search et all. please help. Where does it go? It cant simply disappear.

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Ben M. Schorr -bschorr

Sure it can. You told Outlook you didn't want it so it was discarded. Chances of recovering it would be extremely slim until miraculously a backup was made of your mailbox during the moments that the message existed in the Drafts folder and that backup could somehow be restored.

What kind of account is this? POP3? IMAP? Hotmail? Exchange? Something else?

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Raju S Das

Hello Carly,

Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for posting your query.

Since the email account is configured as exchange, you may post your query in the forum link below and check if they could help you to recover the discarded draft email.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclients/threads

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AlfaSantos

Hi!

I just have the same problem. I did it on the Iphone and can't the file that I discarded from draft anywhere. I was using hotmail outlook.live.com

Please, help me to recovery.

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aklavik14

Hotmail has a bad way of deleting items without requesting it. Windows 10 is the pits! Large research universities still have Wind 7. Why are the little people forced to move to useless systems? To spy on us?

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Jorge Mario Calvo Arce

Hi guys,

It just happened to me and I found the reply in deleted items folder. As simple as that.

Now, can´t promise it works just the same on mobile plataform, I hope this will help you.

Regards,

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pracha95

It goes into Deleted Items folder

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How do I restore/recover a discarded draft. Not a deleted email but a draft of an email I accidentally hit discard on?

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