Recover MS Outlook Email Attachments – Free Utility

Microsoft

Here is a really useful, and free, utility that displays the temporary MS Outlook email attachments stored in your PC’s local OLK cache.  I found myself needing this utility after working late last night and making the school boy error of working on a MS Word document directly from an email attachment and then closing it without saving it to a directory on my hard disk.  When I had realised what I had done and went to open the Word document from within the attachment it unsurprisingly had reverted back to the original version with no sign of my last 60 minutes worth of updates to be seen.  Doh!

I knew about the temporary OLK directory that contains the temporary files for the MS Outlook attachments though this can be quite a chore to try and search through it to find the required file.  This is when I called on the services of the ‘OLK Finder’ utility.  Within seconds of running this useful utility it presented a list of my OLK based temporary files without having to rummage through the temporary internet files directories – check out the long ‘OLK Location’ field in the screen shot below.

 

Outlook Recover Email Attachment

 

I definitely recommend adding ‘OLK Finder’  to your IT toolbox and the fact that is free makes it a great addition.  It doesn’t require to be installed on your PC so is suited to a USB key for convenience.

 

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4 Responses to “Recover MS Outlook Email Attachments – Free Utility”

  1. mattywhi says:

    Very useful tool – going to grab myself a copy of this for future use!

  2. cellardoor says:

    Never had the need. If ever a user has called me up with this predicament I just open up the attachment from Outlook again, do save as. This will give you the location of the OLK folder.

    Browse to folder with Windows Explorer and sort by date modified. Nice tool but think it would be quicker to do this rather than download and install a program on the users computer.

  3. Kiwi Si says:

    Good tip cellardoor! I wasn’t aware of this – will definitely keep that one in the back pocket. Though am hoping I won’t be foolish enough to forget about working on Outlook file attachments again. :)

  4. Simon

    If I do this (and I do), then I usually just open the application in which I was working and look at the recent history list of opened files. Then I remember to immediately re-save in a proper location…. :0)

    Chris

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