Outlook Mail Restore

DVD-Lots

So it looks like I "accidentally" deleted all the mails in my inbox on outlook.live.com, I have selected the restore the deleted items option but there are literally thousands of mails going back to 2007 in there. Does anyone know how to select all here or do I have to select each one individually? There's no Select All button that I can see and the microsoft website is no help. :rolleyes:

aligator_am

Has it just restored everything to your inbox? including ones that you previously deleted?

If you need to select all so you can delete then it may be easier to install a free email client on your machine (Zimbra and Thunderbird are decent).

Once that's installed then you can sort by date, sender, subject etc. and you can delete a whole load at a time.

It is small progress, but select the top one then shift select the last one. Maybe you can move then 30 per time.

DVD-Lots

aligator_am wrote: »

Has it just restored everything to your inbox? including ones that you previously deleted?

If you need to select all so you can delete then it may be easier to install a free email client on your machine (Zimbra and Thunderbird are decent).

Once that's installed then you can sort by date, sender, subject etc. and you can delete a whole load at a time.

No I haven't restored anything yet as it doesn't have a recover all option, you have to click each mail separately. The online GUI is a nightmare for this, I may go back to a client I think after this mess.

DVD-Lots

Deleted User wrote: »

It is small progress, but select the top one then shift select the last one. Maybe you can move then 30 per time.

Thanks, this seems to be the only option. It's going to be a long day in work!

smuggler.ie

I have not attempted to restore, but in Outlook.com on FF and IE(not using chrome, but should be same) you should have option to select "all", at least per page and options to sort by certain criteria.

DVD-Lots

smuggler.ie wrote: »

I have not attempted to restore, but in Outlook.com on FF and IE(not using chrome, but should be same) you should have option to select "all", at least per page and options to sort by certain criteria.

Is that on iPhone Smuggler? I don't have that option on IE or Firefox on PC and I've had a quick look on chrome and firefox on Android and no dice.

smuggler.ie

DVD-Lots wrote: »

Is that on iPhone Smuggler? I don't have that option on IE or Firefox on PC and I've had a quick look on chrome and firefox on Android and no dice.

This is on PC, Win8.1
IE v11.0.9600.19130
FF v62.0.3(64bit)


Mobile versions might have less flexibility, perhaps.

DVD-Lots

So I posted on the Microsoft forum and had a very helpful guy go through loads of settings and stuff but still couldn't restore all. The last option was to sign up for a 1-month trial of Office365 and download the Outlook app. Fired it up and the option is there in Deleted items\Recover Deleted Items folder to restore all. Why Microsoft don't include this in the Web version is beyond me.

Anyways, case closed, mails are restored and now I just have to sift through all the junk again and delete!!!