Accidentally Deleted My Inbox: How to Recover?

My deleted file needed to be entirely removed but I unintentionally deleted my inbox! How can I get my Windows Mail inbox emails back?

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Dany· Answered on Dec 12, 2025

We will provide two available methods to fix the 'accidentally deleted my inbox' issue. We are going to introduce an easier way first:

1. Recover emails from the inbox with EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. Every user may lose essential emails due to a variety of unexpected accidents. As a practitioner with 5+ years of experience in email recovery, we feel responsible for sharing an efficient email recovery solution. Hope that it can help you get back your lost email files in the easiest way.

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EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is email recovery software, and it can retrieve Gmail emails, Outlook emails, and more. You can follow the tutorial to recover emails from your inbox step by step:

Step 1. Click Scan after selecting the drive or partition where you deleted your email files.

Step 2. The scanning procedure will start right away in the software. Be patient and wait until the screening is finished. Click Others in the left panel to easily find the email folders. Then, search the file category list for PST or Outlook files.

Step 3. Next, select the email files you want to keep and hit Recover. Instead of using the initial location, save the files somewhere else.

2. You can attempt the following steps to recover the emails if you use Windows Mail:

Step 1. On the Windows Mail navigation pane, select the Deleted Items folder. In Local Folders, you can find the Deleted Items folder.

Step 2. In the Deleted Items folder's main window, find the deleted message you want to retrieve.

Step 3. Choose the message you want to retrieve, then select Edit from the menu. In order to save the message, click Undelete. This will return the message to the Inbox.

Related Article: How to Retrieve Deleted Emails from Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, and Yahoo Step by Step

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