I have several hundred mail items in my trash - deleted from a folder called “MyMail”. Well, I also deleted the “MyMail” folder. I would like to have the trash items restored to my Inbox but that does not appear to be working. Looking at the docs, trash is restored to the folder that it originally was deleted from ( … “MyMail”). Well, I recreated “MyMail”, but the restore does not work … in fact documents I try to restore now appear totally lost. I’d be happy to restore to either the new “MyMail” or to my inbox. Any help would be appreciated.
Subject: All Docs and FT search (re: Restoring Mail to a recreated folder)
The reason your recreated folder doesn’t work as a restore target is that the Folder References for documents are based on an internal ID, not just the folder name (as people have a habit of renaming folders). Your new folder, though the same name, has a completely new unique ID.
The one place you’ll see the restored mail messages now is in the All Documents view in your mail file. Luckily, you can find these restored docs pretty simply using the full interface for Full Text searching since the process of restoring a deleted message modifies it, thus updating the Last Modified date/time. The following steps should get very close to the exact set of restored messages.
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Create the new folder (you’ve done this)
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From trash, restore the desired docs.
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Open the All Docs view and pull up the Full Text search bar. From the menu: View | Search this view.
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Expand the search interface by clicking on More.
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Make sure you have the green dot indicating your mailfile is indexed; if not, click on it to create the FT index - otherwise, click on the button to Update Index as we need to make sure the indexer sees the newly restored messages.
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Now build the criteria by clicking on the Date button to get a dialog and choose to search for documents whose Date Modified, is on (today), and click the Add button.
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Click the date button again to add another, this time to search for documents whose Date Created is NOT on (today) and click Add.
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Now you should have a compound search for docs that were modified today, but not created today thus eliminating newly created/received messages while finding all the messages modified from the restore again. Click Search.
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Do a CTRL-A in the result set in the view and drag to your new folder.
Voila!
HTH,
- jerry