Accidentally deleted my 'Deleted Items' and Spam folders

Can you help me please. Stupidly, I deleted both my Deleted items and my
Spam folders in OE6. In both cases I thought I was deleting content
(ignoring the warning message), not the folder itself! I've tried a system
restore but that's had no impact. As you can tell, I'm not very technical
but I really hope you can help. Many thanks, Sue x

You can't delete the OE Deleted Items folder, only its contents. And, there
is no OE spam folder. Care to rephrase?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
Can you help me please. Stupidly, I deleted both my Deleted items and my
Spam folders in OE6. In both cases I thought I was deleting content
(ignoring the warning message), not the folder itself! I've tried a
system
restore but that's had no impact. As you can tell, I'm not very technical
but I really hope you can help. Many thanks, Sue x

Seriously, I have deleted the Deleted Items folder. It isn't there any more.
Also, there was a folder called Spam into which potentially spam emails
automatically went. That's also gone. I can also access my account on my
son's mac, and the Spam folder is still on there, plus the mac equivalent
('Trash')of my deleted items folder, but it's disappeared from my PC.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

You can't delete the OE Deleted Items folder, only its contents. And, there
is no OE spam folder. Care to rephrase?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
Can you help me please. Stupidly, I deleted both my Deleted items and my
Spam folders in OE6. In both cases I thought I was deleting content
(ignoring the warning message), not the folder itself! I've tried a
system
restore but that's had no impact. As you can tell, I'm not very technical
but I really hope you can help. Many thanks, Sue x

This does not sound like a pop account.
Is this a Hotmail or IMAP account?
--
Ron Sommer
MVP-Mail

"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
Seriously, I have deleted the Deleted Items folder. It isn't there any
more.
Also, there was a folder called Spam into which potentially spam emails
automatically went. That's also gone. I can also access my account on my
son's mac, and the Spam folder is still on there, plus the mac equivalent
('Trash')of my deleted items folder, but it's disappeared from my PC.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

You can't delete the OE Deleted Items folder, only its contents. And,
there
is no OE spam folder. Care to rephrase?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
Can you help me please. Stupidly, I deleted both my Deleted items and
my
Spam folders in OE6. In both cases I thought I was deleting content
(ignoring the warning message), not the folder itself! I've tried a
system
restore but that's had no impact. As you can tell, I'm not very
technical
but I really hope you can help. Many thanks, Sue x

Your spam folder is on the server and may be copied to the local machine.
If you deleted the deleted items folder, then OE will create a new one that
is empty. You can check your Recycle bin for a deleted items.bak file from
when you last compacted OE and restore that (see
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2), but if that doesn't help, you'll need the
extract from disk feature of DBXpress (www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/) to attempt
to recover what you deleted.

In the future you might go to View | Layout and uncheck the Folder List
option and enable only the Folder Bar option. That makes it very difficult
then to delete an entire folder.

steve

"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
Seriously, I have deleted the Deleted Items folder. It isn't there any
more.
Also, there was a folder called Spam into which potentially spam emails
automatically went. That's also gone. I can also access my account on my
son's mac, and the Spam folder is still on there, plus the mac equivalent
('Trash')of my deleted items folder, but it's disappeared from my PC.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

You can't delete the OE Deleted Items folder, only its contents. And,
there
is no OE spam folder. Care to rephrase?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
Can you help me please. Stupidly, I deleted both my Deleted items and
my
Spam folders in OE6. In both cases I thought I was deleting content
(ignoring the warning message), not the folder itself! I've tried a
system
restore but that's had no impact. As you can tell, I'm not very
technical
but I really hope you can help. Many thanks, Sue x

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:50:02 -0700, sue_marie wrote:

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

"sue_marie" wrote in message
...

Can you help me please. Stupidly, I deleted both my Deleted items and
my Spam folders in OE6. In both cases I thought I was deleting content
(ignoring the warning message), not the folder itself! I've tried a
system restore but that's had no impact. As you can tell, I'm not very
technical but I really hope you can help.

You can't delete the OE Deleted Items folder, only its contents. And, there
is no OE spam folder. Care to rephrase?

Seriously, I have deleted the Deleted Items folder. It isn't there any more.
Also, there was a folder called Spam into which potentially spam emails
automatically went. That's also gone. I can also access my account on my
son's mac, and the Spam folder is still on there, plus the mac equivalent
('Trash')of my deleted items folder, but it's disappeared from my PC.

The "Deleted Items" folder under the "Local Folders" doesn't even present
the option to delete it; the option is grayed out.

If this was an IMAP account, the ability to delete the "Deleted Items"
folder would depend on the server. Some might allow it, but I suspect that
most would not. More likely you have "unsubscribed".

A "Spam" folder in MSOE is always a third party addition. Could be a local
antispam software action, or an IMAP server action. Either way, you will
have to figure out how it was created in the first place, in order to repair
it.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

I HAVE FIXED IT! Went into Tools/IMAP Folders/Reset List and both the
Deleted Messages and Spam folders came back. Phew x



"sue_marie" wrote:

Seriously, I have deleted the Deleted Items folder. It isn't there any more.
Also, there was a folder called Spam into which potentially spam emails
automatically went. That's also gone. I can also access my account on my
son's mac, and the Spam folder is still on there, plus the mac equivalent
('Trash')of my deleted items folder, but it's disappeared from my PC.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

You can't delete the OE Deleted Items folder, only its contents. And, there
is no OE spam folder. Care to rephrase?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
Can you help me please. Stupidly, I deleted both my Deleted items and my
Spam folders in OE6. In both cases I thought I was deleting content
(ignoring the warning message), not the folder itself! I've tried a
system
restore but that's had no impact. As you can tell, I'm not very technical
but I really hope you can help. Many thanks, Sue x

I would have been easier to offer help if you had mentioned that you were
using IMAP in you first post.
--
Thanks for reporting back.
Ron Sommer


"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
I HAVE FIXED IT! Went into Tools/IMAP Folders/Reset List and both the
Deleted Messages and Spam folders came back. Phew x



"sue_marie" wrote:

Seriously, I have deleted the Deleted Items folder. It isn't there any
more.
Also, there was a folder called Spam into which potentially spam emails
automatically went. That's also gone. I can also access my account on
my
son's mac, and the Spam folder is still on there, plus the mac equivalent
('Trash')of my deleted items folder, but it's disappeared from my PC.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

You can't delete the OE Deleted Items folder, only its contents. And,
there
is no OE spam folder. Care to rephrase?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
Can you help me please. Stupidly, I deleted both my Deleted items
and my
Spam folders in OE6. In both cases I thought I was deleting content
(ignoring the warning message), not the folder itself! I've tried a
system
restore but that's had no impact. As you can tell, I'm not very
technical
but I really hope you can help. Many thanks, Sue x

IMAP. That's why.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
I HAVE FIXED IT! Went into Tools/IMAP Folders/Reset List and both the
Deleted Messages and Spam folders came back. Phew x



"sue_marie" wrote:

Seriously, I have deleted the Deleted Items folder. It isn't there any
more.
Also, there was a folder called Spam into which potentially spam emails
automatically went. That's also gone. I can also access my account on
my
son's mac, and the Spam folder is still on there, plus the mac equivalent
('Trash')of my deleted items folder, but it's disappeared from my PC.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

You can't delete the OE Deleted Items folder, only its contents. And,
there
is no OE spam folder. Care to rephrase?
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"sue_marie" wrote in message
...
Can you help me please. Stupidly, I deleted both my Deleted items
and my
Spam folders in OE6. In both cases I thought I was deleting content
(ignoring the warning message), not the folder itself! I've tried a
system
restore but that's had no impact. As you can tell, I'm not very
technical
but I really hope you can help. Many thanks, Sue x