hi,
when outlook compacts its email folders,and the computer hangs and restarts emails that was backedup its follders goes missing , i have tried encase , ftk to recover , nothing , those are vital information in those folders , and needs to be recovered any help here would be appreciated. what happens when the folders are compacted ,there must be some sort of temp folder created ,able me to recover ,the only folders recovered is empty folders.
regards
badboy
Your best bet may be slack space on the disk drive. It is just possible there may be a temp file, so search for all deleted files.
It would be possible that the compacting routine does not create a temp file, but just reorganise itself, and then truncate the file. This method would totally erase many previously deleted e-mails
Is the original Outlook file normally compressed? In that case you will have to search for compressed data, otherewise you may bebale to look for text string you expect to find in an e-mail