How to Recover Deleted Emails on Mac

Download and Install Disk Drill Email Recovery Software for Mac. Since you will be restoring data that was most likely deleted from your machine’s main drive, DO NOT use that drive for downloading and installing the application. We recommend using a flash drive or external hard drive when downloading Disk Drill.

Launch Disk Drill and choose your Mac’s main hard drive from the app’s disk list. If you are recovering email stored on an external storage device, connect it to your Mac computer before starting the application.

Click the Recover button to start scanning for lost data. Disk Drill will automatically run all of its scanning algorithms in the optimal order which ensures the best performance when retrieving deleted files. You can also control the specific scans that are run and may want to try a quick scan if you are in a hurry. Deep scans can be used to uncover hard-to-find files and will investigate the disk on a sector-by-sector basis to reconstruct and recover lost data.

Select the email file from the list of recoverable items displayed by Disk Drill. Choose a safe storage location at which to save the file that is not on the same disk as the deleted file you are recovering. This protects you from accidentally overwriting the file during the recovery process.

You need to import the recovered email file to use it in your Apple Mail client. Use these steps:

1. Open Apple Mail.
2. Click File -> Import Mailboxes.
3. Select Apple Mail as the data type.
4. Navigate to the folder where Disk Drill has recovered your deleted email and select Choose.
5. Click the Continue button to begin to import the recovered email.
6. Click Done when prompted and take note of the name of the Mailbox where your recovered emails are now located.

If you have accidentally deleted an email file, you may be able to recover it from your Mac’s Trash. Due to the size of some email files, it may have been too large to fit in the space allocated for your Mac’s Trash Bin.

1. Open the Trash by clicking its icon.
2. Locate the file you want to recover.
3. Right-click on your selection and choose Put Back.

Here’s how to retrieve permanently deleted emails from Mac using a Time Machine backup.

1. Connect the storage device that contains the backup to your computer.
2. Open a Finder window in the folder that held the email file.
3. Open Time Machine by clicking on its clock icon in the menu bar.
4. Locate the files you want to recover with the timeline and up and down arrow keys.
5. Select an item and press Spacebar to preview it.
6. Click Restore to recover the selected item.

You can recover a deleted email on a Mac from within the mail client using the following procedure.

1. Open the Trash folder in the Apple Mail client.
2. Locate the message you want to recover.
3. Right-click on the email and select move to and choose a folder where the message will be saved.