Manual Backup v/s Scheduled Backup of Outlook data

Backup is an essential factor, if you are a regular user of Microsoft Outlook. This is because, the Outlook data has high chances of getting deleted or lost due to various reasons like spam e-mails, viruses, accidental deletion etc. This might result in loss of valuable e-mails, contacts, and other valuable data.

To avoid losing out on all your important and confidential data, it is essential, that you take regular backup of all your Outlook data. Manual backup of Outlook data using a backup software is good enough, if you strongly believe, that you will take a backup of the Outlook data every single day, without fail. If you skip the task even one day, it might result in loss of some valuable data.

To avoid the trouble of manually performing a backup task each day, it is best to leave the job to be done by a professional Outlook data backup software. REMO Outlook Backup and Migration software lets you schedule backup tasks on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. The software lets you customize the backup process, by providing additional features like Compression, Security and data splitting options. The software also lets you Migrate Outlook profile from Microsoft Outlook 2003 to Microsoft Outlook 2007 with ease. Read the rest of this entry »

Deleting files and folders forever

Data deleted using shift+del key does not get erased permanently but still exists on the disk’s free space. The drive space occupied by these files/ folders would be only marked as free and is made available for other file(s) to occupy its place. In addition, quick formatting any partition(s) will not erase the data completely. Traces would be present and data from formatted partitions could be recovered with ease. This means that the data is still available on the disk and is liable to data theft. So it is recommended that you should periodically perform free disk space shredding to erase drive so that sensitive data is completely erased and delete forever. Shredding free disk space ensures that deleted data emptied from recycle bin, formatted partitions, lost files or its fragments are not recoverable.

Remo File Shredder is a data security tool that is used to erase sensitive file(s) / folder(s) beyond recovery using several advanced erasing techniques. It is extremely easy to use, which provides several on screen instructions and context sensitive help.

Main Features of Remo File Shredder are as below:

  • Context menu integration helps to add files/folders to shredding zone. The option also offers “single click” shredding of files and folders.
  • Inbuilt scheduler to schedule shredding tasks, shred files at a specified time or at system startup.
  • Several military and government shredding patterns to shred data.
  • Pop up notifications and reminders, when there is need to shred free disk space and recycle bin. This advanced feature helps to ensure protection from deleted data theft.
  • Generates event log of the complete shredding process.
  • To protect the software from being misused by others, you can set the password so that you can restrict the number of users from accessing Remo File Shredder.
  • Automatic live update to keep the software up to date.

Data once erased using Remo File Shredder is not recoverable by any data recovery software’s or data recovery professionals.
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Necessity to backup emails

Have you accidentally deleted an important email from Outlook? And emptied the trash folder, and looking for a way to recover it back? Don’t panic you can recover your deleted emails. Are the deleted emails really recoverable? The answer is YES. When you delete an email, it is not actually deleted, but is still present on your hard drive. However the computer is simply unable to locate it. What has actually happened is that the space that was occupied by the deleted email is now available as re-use space and until that space is overwritten by new files you can still restore your email messages and get them back. The trick to get them back is to act as quick as possible.

Firstly, close your Outlook and do not save any thing to the hard drive. This is because when you do so eventually you will use the space that became available from your deleted email and it will be overwritten. Now you will need an email recovery tool. It will recover all your deleted emails in few clicks.

If your computer crashes by a hard disk failure all sorts of data corruption can occur. Email is the most sensitive part of the daily routine. Losing your email archive and the address book would halt your work until the email databases are restored. Backup can help you recover and restore the lost emails. Thus, avoid losing your important outlook emails by taking regular backups of your pst files. It is very important to backup outlook pst files to safeguard your email messages, contacts, appointments, tasks, journal entries, notes, RSS feeds, settings, E-mail accounts, message rules, junk e-mail lists and signatures.  You also need to backup your outlook settings to safeguard your MS Outlook shortcuts, Personal Address Book, rules, signatures, menu or toolbar customization and nicknames.

Disk Doctors have put forward an excellent email backup program. This Smart E-mail Backup software helps to create backup and also restores the Outlook data. It is compatible with Windows XP and Vista, and provides a smart and easy way to backup e-mails. Backup, restore and migrate your emails with Smart Email backup. Read the rest of this entry »

The largest source of accidentally lost and deleted emails

Microsoft controls a huge percentage of personal computing. Indeed one could say they have a finger in every software pie. This is brought forth by their ownership of Windows and all of the Microsoft windows applications. Their Office suite is the industry leader and as such all of the items bundled inside of Microsoft office control their respective software niches as well.

Bundled with every version of Windows comes Internet Explorer and bundled with Explorer comes Outlook Express, Microsoft’s free email client.
Bundled with Microsoft Office you will find Microsoft Outlook. This being a larger far more grand, installable email client.

What both of these applications share, aside from their Microsoft origins is an uncanny ability to louse up. Yes these are the two most widely used email systems in the world and they are fabulously famous for losing email. While it is true most emails are lost due to human error AKA accidental deletion, a huge percentage of the need to recover deleted emails is directly related to errors caused by Outlook and Outlook Express. Read the rest of this entry »

Reasons Microsoft email clients lose files

Both of these email clients (a client is the side of the program on your computer) manage to prolifically lose emails, necessitating email recovery, for the following reasons.

  1. For some reason when Outlook emails are compressed and unzipped the files suffer data loss. Lose enough 0s and 1s and before long the email you were saving will no longer open.
  2. When an Outlook or Outlook Express email is downloaded, it is often scanned by a local antivirus program. These programs occasionally alter the structure of the message and as a result damage its files. The file then disappears and you are left wondering where it went.
  3. Various versions of Microsoft Outlook have specific size limitations on how much mail can be archived in the folder. Should you exceed that limit files essentially spill out of the folder and are lost.
  4. And, of course accidental deletion of emails. Everyone who has ever used a computer has accidentally deleted a wanted file. Emails are deleted more than any other file type because we tend to quickly scan over the latest mail and discard spam and other unneeded documents.

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The differences in Microsoft email file designs

Outlook and Outlook Express differ in that Outlook saves all of its messages to one large folder known as a .PST file and Express saves its messages as individual files using the .DBX extension. PST actually stands for personal storage table. When files are lost inside the PST folder it is akin to their being dumped from a database. The PST folder is actually a small writable and readable database. When Outlook Express DBX files are lost they are lost just as any other popular file type might be lost. The recognition data attached to each DBX file has been damaged or removed. These differences make the process of mail recovery for each program entirely unique to one another. Read the rest of this entry »

What can be done to counter the frailty of Outlook email programs

Having established that these two email clients are necessary for most computing and having further noted that these two are born troublemakers, what should we do to use these without fear of losing precious communications?

To effectively use Outlook and Outlook Express we will need to place on our computer desktop a third party program for recovery of files from both of these email clients. PST and DBX file recovery is made possible with Outlook and Outlook Express recovery programs from Disk Doctors.

Disk Doctors makes a program for both of these clients and bundles them together at one low price.

Disk Doctors PST repair is the ultimate tool for PST recovery. It will scan any PST file on any version of windows using any version of Outlook. Some of these files are up to 20 GB in size so scanning them for individual messages is a very precise process. The Disk Doctors Outlook email recovery program is up to the task. Not only will this powerful and intuitive software recover deleted emails on Outlook, it will also facilitate corrupt inbox repair.

Outlook repair requires a program built precisely for that purpose and for that purpose there is no finer program than Disk Doctors PST Repair. Read the rest of this entry »

The most simple and direct solution for Outlook recovery

Outlook Express on the other hand is quite different in that the process of sending and receiving mail is the same as with Outlook via the standard header set up, but the means of storing files is far less sophisticated. And as such this is the major cause of Express’ limitations. Still, when Outlook Express DBX Recovery is needed, the solution is the same as with Outlook. That answer is to use Disk Doctors DBX repair. This is the ultimate tool for Outlook Express Repair.

Disk Doctors DBX repair will search an entire computer hard drive in seconds to find damaged or deleted Outlook Express DBX files. DD DBX Repair will also repair inbox problems and handle every need for mail recovery.

Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express repair is incredibly simple with help from Disk Doctors. The software will scan for any lost or damaged files, repair inbox applications, and allow recovery of data to either external storage or a newly created PST folder. Another great feature of these programs is their unique import and export function. Just as when using any database client, Disk Doctors Outlook Repair will allow you to import tables directly into the PST file saving you plenty of work when reloading the lost and subsequently found emails. Outlook Express Recovery is equally simple, as once you have selected the files you wish to resave Disk Doctors DBX Repair will load them to any location you desire. Read the rest of this entry »