How Do I Recover Missing/Deleted Notes in Outlook?

Among all the features of Outlook email application, Outlook Notes is one of the features that helps you to remember important events and helps you organise your work efficiently. If you were a consistent user of Outlook application, Outlook Notes is way more significant for you. What if you accidentally deleted Outlook notes or missing it on the Outlook?

The main reasons for missing Outlook notes is, accidental deleting of files or Outlook data file corruption. Here is the primary workaround to find the Outlook Notes if it is accidentally deleted or removed from the folder.

Recover Deleted/Missing Outlook Notes (2016,2013,2010 & older versions)

Open MS Outlook account, go to Home-> locate the Deleted file folder. Right click on the Outlook Notes item you want to recover from the folder and press Ok. Now, Move the file to any other folder on the application.

If you have accidently cleared the Delete Items folder, there is another option called Recover Deleted items that keeps deleted files for 28 days before clearing the folder.

All you should is, go to Folder option on the tab, click on Recover deleted items. Now select the Outlook Notes file to be restored, and click on recover selected items. You can find all the chosen files in deleted file folder, now move the files to another folder.

If you are still unable to recover your Outlook Notes, this must be due to the corruption in Outlook data files. it is recommended to fix the corruption to access the Outlook Notes.

Easy way to recover notes from Microsoft Outlook:

By using suitable repair utility such as Remo Repair you can easily repair your corrupt PST file and recover Microsoft Outlook Journal, Notes, Contacts, Mails, etc. This repair application is specially designed to repair inaccessible PST file and recover all Outlook elements including notes, calendar, emails, contacts, journals, to-do list etc. The tool is designed with friendly to use interface through which even a novice computer user can repair and recover his important Notes from PST file. Additionally the tool repairs and recovers Notes from PST file created on all Outlook versions like MS Outlook 2000, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, and Outlook 2010.

Follow the below given steps for recovering Outlook notes successfully:

Step 1: In order to retrieve notes, first download and install Remo Repair Oultook software on your system to retrieve notes in Outlook. Then, open the software and click ‘Open PST File’ if you know the exact location of your PST file, otherwise click on ‘Find PST File’ to search for the PST file (or) select “Outlook Profile” option to choose specific Outlook profile, if you have multiple Outlook profile.

Figure A: Main Screen

Step 2: Choose the appropriate scanning method. Select the destination location and click on “Repair” button.

Figure B: Choose Scanning Method

Step 3: Allow the repair process to complete. After repair completion, the application shows all the Outlook deleted notes and other elements such as emails, task, contacts, calendar entries and etc.

Figure C: Repaired PST File

Amazing features of this tool:

• Fully compatible with Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP
• Even recover data from password protected Outlook PST file
• Scan and repairs PST corruption caused due to any reasons
• Allow user to preview recovered item, before saving process
• Free trial version of the tool is available which help individuals to check the possibility of file repair before actual purchase

Precautionary measures to avoid PST file corruption:

Close Microsoft Outlook application before repair process. Backup your PST files before performing repair operation. Delete unwanted notes and other elements to reduce PST file size. Install powerful antivirus program to delete viruses from your system. Avoid switching off your system while performing “Send / Receive” operation.