| Subject: deleted emails Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: betodesign101-ga List Price: $2.00 | Posted: 25 Jan 2005 11:50 PST Expires: 24 Feb 2005 11:50 PST Question ID: 463163 |
how can i retrieve emails i had deleted from my (GMAIL) trash folder?
There is no answer at this time.
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: pinkfreud-ga on 25 Jan 2005 11:57 PST |
Did you click "Delete Forever" on the items in your trash folder?
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: betodesign101-ga on 25 Jan 2005 12:12 PST |
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: david1977-ga on 25 Jan 2005 16:34 PST |
Then it is deleted forever.
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: betodesign101-ga on 26 Jan 2005 06:06 PST |
google cannot access my account and restore them? what if the police need to know what i have been deleting?
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: mister2u-ga on 26 Jan 2005 07:40 PST |
The police could obtain warrants to examine Google's server,forensic recovery techniques could be used,they can get very expensive.
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: betodesign101-ga on 26 Jan 2005 10:44 PST |
for me or for the police?
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: mister2u-ga on 26 Jan 2005 11:42 PST |
Generally speaking for them,you might want to talk to a lawyer if it's for you.
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: betodesign101-ga on 26 Jan 2005 12:18 PST |
what can a lawyer do? force google to restore my emails?
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: hammer-ga on 26 Jan 2005 12:24 PST |
Betodesign101, I think we're getting a bit confused. Are you trying to make sure that the police can't read your deleted email, or are you trying to force GMail to recover email that you expressly deleted? - Hammer
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: betodesign101-ga on 26 Jan 2005 14:39 PST |
i deleted some emails by mistake and i want them back. if lawyers and police can get them why can't I?
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: hammer-ga on 26 Jan 2005 14:53 PST |
Betodesign101, I don't work for GMail, but I do have some experience with these things. If a court orders GMail to produce your deleted emails, they *may*, with a tremendous amount of work be able to locate some remaining "residue" of your deleted emails in places like archives or backups. This means that, if the timing was right, a deleted message or two *might* happen to be floating around. If the case was tremendously important, forensics might even be performed designed to recover items that have been "deleted" but not yet overwritten/eradicated. However, this is not something they would even attempt to do under normal circumstances. Think of it this way: A hospital has the ability to pump your stomach to remove poison or to perform abdominal surgery to remove foriegn objects, but they wouldn't do so because you ate something you didn't like the taste of. When you pressed Delete, GMail deleted your messages, as you instructed. - Hammer
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: mister2u-ga on 26 Jan 2005 14:55 PST |
You can(try at least)to convince Google to allow you access to it's servers and then learn advanced data recovery techniques .Failing that maybe the arresting officer won't show up at the trial or the judge will have a heart attack etc.
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: mister2u-ga on 27 Jan 2005 08:57 PST |
Thanks : hammer-ga,that's what I was getting at.
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: betodesign101-ga on 27 Jan 2005 09:24 PST |
so the odds of me getting my emails back are 1 in a million? if so just say so. thanx.
| Subject: Re: deleted emails From: cynthia-ga on 27 Jan 2005 14:50 PST |
Your chance of getting your deleted emails back are LESS than one-in-a-million. ~~Cynthia