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Microsoft Outlook Mac suddenly loses an email being drafted which appears to vanish and seems like it can't be recovered Hi... I found a solution to this. Since it a persistent bug (as of v16.37 May 2020) and the report appended below was from 2018 with 168 people reporting the same problem, and no replies, I'm posting a solution that worked for me and looks reproducible. First the problem statement below. I note that unlike the example cited, I could not find the file in my Trash folder. ................ 2018 Hello - My manager has had the following scenario happen twice, on Apple devices only. We have a PC in the office and this has never happened on the PC so I am thinking it must be a Mac setting. Please HELPPPP!!! My boss was writing a draft in Outlook when it suddenly disappeared. While I know emails do not normally vanish in to thin air, he says he did NOT close out of it. He merely toggled to another screen and then it was nowhere to be found. Even if he is mistaking, and he actually DID close out of the draft accidentally, I have his Outlook settings configured so that his drafts are auto-saved after 1 min so that if he ever accidentally closes them, it prompts him "Do you want to save this draft? Yes or No" and he will realize what he did because he can't move on without selecting "Yes or No". Regardless of whether he closed it out, moved it to one of his hundreds of Outlook folders accidentally, accidentally hit SEND… or WHATEVER it was that caused it to disappear, I thought for sure that if I was going to find ANYWHERE, it would be in Outlook. So I searched in his deleted items, drafts, outbox, sent items, archive, junk, and his clutter folder but found nothing. Then I searched his inbox and every other folder he has, again found NOTHING. Finally I ran an advanced search of deleted items that are no longer in the deleted items folder, and couldn’t find it there either. I also checked to see if I would find it by searching on Outlook’s web server, but no luck, and also check to see if he had any Outlook rules in place that could POSSIBLY have caused this to happen but he does not. He called me shortly after I told him I had no luck finding it, and said he found the draft in his COMPUTER’S trash. To my knowledge, he would have had to drag and drop the email from outlook to the computer trash in order for that to happen, and he definitely did not. Can anyone tell me why/how an Outlook draft (even if it was deleted) would end up in the computer trash??? Outlook 2010 Posted on Mar 15, 2018 6:54 PM

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Apple Mail: emails in an "On My Mac" mailbox disappeared I'm using Apple Mail Version 14.0 (3654.120.0.1.13) on an iMac running Big Sur (11.6.5). I was organizing my business receipts in Apple Mail, and I moved all the relevant 2021 messages into a new mailbox "On My Mac". The messages were all in there, but each one suddenly appeared to have no content. However, the message sizes (15kb, etc.) were all intact, so I figured the messages were there, but some glitch was keeping them from showing. I tried "rebuilding" the mailbox, because Apple recommends doing that when messages are not visible. Nothing seemed to happen--I didn't see the "rebuilding" activity notice at the bottom left. However, shortly after, all the messages except for those from one vendor (which I had done a Spotlight search for at about the same time) disappeared from the mailbox. I'm thinking now that the "rebuilding" discarded the messages, and somehow the Spotlight search preserved the ones from the single vendor. I didn't understand before that rebuilding meant the local messages would be thrown away. But I don't think the messages are on my email server anymore, since I previously moved them into an "On My Mac" mailbox, so I can't re-download them. (Apple should make it that you can't hit "rebuild" on a local mailbox.) So my question is: 1) If messages in a local "On My Mac" mailbox are deleted, do they go into some trashcan before disappearing permanently? I looked, but couldn't find them. 2) Could I get these messages back through Time Machine? This post indicates no, but I thought that you could do that before. (I wish Apple had told me that my email was no longer being archived.) 3) Is there any other way I could get these messages back? It's for my taxes. Thanks to anyone who has ideas.

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Recover deleted email (Control-H) While in Apple Mail, I attempted to invoke the app Hook by pressing Control-H. Hook didn't launch, so I tried Control-H again, but still no Hook. I then realized that 2 emails that were previously in my mailbox were no longer there. I searched Mail for the missing emails, but couldn't find them anywhere. I then did a DuckDuckGo search for Apple Mail "Control-H", and learned that pressing "Control-H" deletes the current message, and can be undone with Command-Z. Supposedly the email is just moved to the Trash folder. Back in Mail, pressing Command-Z did nothing. Searching through the Trash, I still wasn't able to find the deleted email. The email was important, and I'd really like to recover it. Help!?

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Outlook draft disappeared... ended up in computer trash??

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