If you use Outlook to organize your email, you may encounter instances where you might unintentionally delete the Junk folder. If this happens, you can easily move the folder back into place. Email servers, such as Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail, all include the Spam folder as one of several default folders. If you use one of these servers, rest assured that there really is no way to delete the Spam folder, even accidentally.
Step 1
Click on the link to the 'Recover Deleted Items' folder after logging into your Outlook account.
Step 2
Drag the entire Spam folder out of your 'Recover Deleted Items.' If you inadvertently deleted your Spam folder and do not manually remove this folder from the Recover Deleted Items storage area, it will remain there until you empty the contents of this area. You should always check your Recover Deleted Items area to retrieve any emails or entire folders you may not have known were deleted before emptying out this area. Once you confirm deletion, this is a permanent command that cannot be reversed.
Tips
- As the Spam or Junk folders are usually one of the default folders, this particular folder itself cannot be renamed.
- Also, if you have deleted individual email messages from your Spam folder that you decided were not spam, you can easily move those messages back into your Inbox. In Yahoo! mail, drag the message back into your Inbox. In Hotmail, checkmark the message, pull down the “Move to” toolbar and select “Inbox.” In Gmail, checkmark the message and click on the “Move to Inbox” button. These tasks will be not work, however, if you have already emptied the Trash folder; when this happens, any messages emptied from the Trash folder is deleted forever.
Warning
- Sometimes, messages that are not necessarily “junk” automatically land in your Spam or Junk mail folder. Before emptying the folder, you may want to occasionally sift through the messages in case important messages have been deleted.
Items you will need
- Outlook email address or username and password
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Originally Posted by chrisberb
I have those same two folders personal/travel, then one final one that says 'more' with an arrow
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I unfortunately do not have anything like that under it. After I dragged the 'chat' deal down, Its just personal/travel & blank white space between it.
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Originally Posted by belfpala
You certainly are at this point. The three little dots are just below the top of the red box in that other pic you linked. They're small. You point your cursor there. It turns into a different shaped cursor. You drag it down. Or you do any of the other things other people have said.
I don't see any little dots under the top of the red box. (under the top? wat?)But as I said I dragged it down, I just linked a picture of what it looks like when I drag it down. I know it seems like I'm screwing with you guys, but you have to understand, do you guys have the social/promotions tab at the top? If you do then I'm not sure why I'm not seeing dots, if you don't, then we're on different gmail versions for some reason.
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Sometimes it seems that Outlook is automatically deleting old messages or messages you want can’t be found – where could they be?
This is an occasional question and hard to answer. Let’s look at some of the possibilities for missing messages, starting with the most common problem we see. Rgf gunna drip or drown 2.
Online Spam Filters
These days it’s more likely that the ‘cloud’ or online spam filter at your mail host has stopped an incoming message before it reaches Outlook.
Most mail hosts have a spam filter which checks email before it gets to your online Inbox. ‘Spam’ messages are usually deleted with no notice to you. Sometimes the ‘spam’ is moved to an online ‘Junk Email’ folder (Gmail has a ‘Spam’ folder that you can check) but it’s more common for the presumed spam emails to be deleted without a trace.
These online filters don’t have the ‘Safe Senders’ and ‘Safe Recipients’ options available in Outlook’s spam filter.
Gmail Sent Mail Folder Missing
All you can do is ask the sender to try again, preferably with a CC to an alternative mail account you control. Then you can check if the message arrives in both Inboxes or just one.
Junk Email
The Outlook Junk Email filter isn’t perfect; no spam filter is perfect. They will let through unwanted messages and, crucially, block messages that you want to get.
Check the Outlook Junk Email folder to see if the missing message/s have been shunted directly there. As already noted, it’s more likely that presumed ‘spam’
Rules
Check your mail rules at Home | Move | Rules . Is it possible the missing messages have been moved unexpectedly by an Outlook Rule?
Deleted Items
Don’t think it can’t happen to you. Check your Deleted Items folder for the missing message. It’s really easy to hit ‘DEL’ on a message by accident.
AutoArchive
AutoArchive is an Outlook feature we’ve never recommended and complaints about missing messages is just one reason.
Microsoft added AutoArchive to Outlook back when the software and computers had trouble handling large mailboxes. Redmond’s ‘solution’ was to move old messages to a separate ‘Archive’ which reduced the support calls to Microsoft but otherwise didn’t help customers.
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The older messages are moved to a separate Outlook store (PST/OST). It’s easy to forget that some messages are ‘archived’.
If looking for messages, remember to check the archive. Even better, close AutoArchive and move those messages back to their original folders. Modern Outlook can easily handle large PST/OST.
Exchange Server
Keep in mind that recent versions of Outlook default to for an option to keep only recent messages on the computer. Older messages are kept on the Exchange Server but not your computer.
There are options from as little as 3 days up to ‘All’ or keeping a copy of everything offline.
The default is NOT ‘All’ so it’s quite possible that your older messages are only saved on the server.
The low options are there for limited storage devices like Surface or tablets. If your computer has the disk space, we suggest sliding to the extreme right for the ‘All’ option. That lets you quickly access all your messages etc even on a slower Internet link, or no connection at all.
POP email
Another possibility for missing messages is a POP email setting in Outlook. Normally, Outlook will grab new messages from the online POP mail store and delete that online copy of the message. That’s because, traditionally, POP accounts had very small storage and the space was needed for future incoming messages.
However, there’s an option to keep the online messages there after copying to Outlook. Messages are kept online for ‘n’ days then automatically deleted.
Outlook 2016 defaults to keeping messages online for 14 days.
That setting should not effect Outlook because it keeps all the incoming messages. However, if you’re connecting to the same online mail store from another device, it may seem that older messages are disappearing.
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There have been alot of similar cases with outlook/hotmail/office365 , so something is clearly going on.
Please try this to see if you can subscribe / show in folder pane again.
'Tools' > 'Account Settings' > 'Server Settings' for the mail accountorRight clickon mail account name in Fodler Pane and select 'Settings'select 'Server Settings' for the mail accountclick on 'Advanced' buttonuncheck: 'Show only subscribed folders'.clickon OKclick on OK
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then try to subscribe again.Right click on mail account and select 'Subscribe'See if this time you can select the folder.click on OK