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Subject: deleted emails
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: betodesign101-ga
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Posted: 25 Jan 2005 11:50 PST
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Question ID: 463163
how can i retrieve emails i had deleted from my (GMAIL) trash folder?
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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
 
yes i did.
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

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