We all make mistakes and deleting emails by mistake is more common than it seems. In fact, we often delete them without even opening them. If we use Gmail, there is no problem, because undoing this deletion is very simple. And not only because the option appears as soon as you delete it, but also because afterwards.
By default, these will be stored in the trash and we will have up to 30 days to retrieve them and move them to the inbox or any other folder. However there is a chance to get them back if more than a month has passed. Although we have already advanced you, you will not always be so lucky.
Recover emails from Gmail trash
As you may already know and as we told you at the beginning, when we delete an email this is not permanently deleted, but goes to the trash. They are stored there temporarily until after 30 days they are permanently deleted.
He process to save them from the trash it couldn’t be easier. You just need to open the drop-down menu on the left (the icon with three lines), click on waste paper basket and there you will find all the emails you deleted less than a month ago. To retrieve them, press and hold them, then tap the three-dot icon (top right corner), click Move a and there you choose in which folder you want to send them.
I have to say that you can select more than one at a time if you click on the photo of each sender. Likewise, there is the possibility of use the search engine to locate them faster. In it, you can put the name or address of the sender, the subject of the message or words that were in its content.
It may still survive in the sent folder
If the email you deleted and are now looking for was answered, you’re in luck. And it is that even those deleted more than a month ago appear in this folder (if they meet this condition of having received a response, of course).
Therefore, you must also open the drop-down menu to access the folder this time Sent and try to locate it there. Although you can’t send it to the inbox or archived folder, you can. see the thread of the whole conversationwhich, for practical purposes, will benefit you because you won’t have lost that content.
Other Ways to Recover Deleted Emails
We start this last section by noting that third-party tools usually don’t work. And this is said by a server from his own experience, as these are stored on Google’s servers and do not provide access to third parties once removed from the trash.
Google offers a tool for “extreme” situations. And it is that they have activated a website that serves as a message recovery tool in cases where a third party has accessed the account without consent and deleted messages. Without this excuse, the tool will not recover our deleted messages.
Another option would be to have a backup on a computer through an email client. However, if you’re still using the Gmail app or accessing it through the web on desktop, you won’t have this option. As we said at the beginning, recovering those emails deleted more than a month ago is not always easy.
