finding an attachment that has been mistakenly removed

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mgbs

I sometimes mistakenly select "remove" instead of "save" the attachment
and can't seem to work out where to find it again. The Microsoft user
data folder seems to only lead me to the currently saved files that i
haven't removed and it's not in Trash. Does anyone know where they go
to?
 
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Barry Wainwright

I sometimes mistakenly select "remove" instead of "save" the attachment
and can't seem to work out where to find it again. The Microsoft user
data folder seems to only lead me to the currently saved files that i
haven't removed and it's not in Trash. Does anyone know where they go
to?
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Nowhere. The space is marked in the database as 'unallocated' and will be
re-written as new stuff arrives.

There is no way to recover them, I'm afraid.
 
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Darryl Zurn

Our company uses an Exchange server, and the attachments might still be
there. On my Mac, we can still use Outlook 2001 in Classic mode. This will
sometimes show the attachment as still there. I had to do that this morning,
in fact.

I found this out because even though I used to regularly remove attachments
from sent/received email (after saving to my hard disk) I was STILL going
over my Exchange quota. It turned out that the attachments which were
'deleted' in Entourage (version X) were still on the Exchange server
attached to the original email.

If I deleted the attachments in Outlook then they really were gone and my
quota was no longer exceeded.

Sad but true: I can't truly delete the attachment on an Exchange server with
Entourage. I have no idea why that option is there if it only hides the
attachment and makes it inaccessible. Kinda useless.

I've now stopped removing *any* attachment with Entourage on my email on the
Exchange server. Entourage only pretends to remove the file, the file still
impacts my disk size quota as "dark matter" that can't be seen but still has
mass and can affect the orbits of entire planets ;)

Darryl Zurn
 
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