Look inside the folder for the email you wish to recover and click on the box to the far left of the email row to select the email. Now that you’ve found the folder containing your deleted emails, you can start to recover them. However, the Trash/Bin folder will never show a number, despite it containing unread emails.
This is the number of unread emails that are in this folder. Note: Many of your other folders will have a number to the right of them.
This will show all your Gmail folders, and you will now find the correct folder. If you can’t see a folder called “Trash” or “Bin”, then click “More” at the bottom of the list. Your deleted emails will be in a folder called “Trash”, or “Bin” (these are the same folder, but named differently depending on the user’s language settings). On the left of the screen, there is a list of folders (Inbox, Starred, Spam, etc). The whole process should take less than 30 seconds. Here’s a step-by-step guide to recovering deleted emails from your Gmail account on your desktop. So simple in fact, that from the Gmail homepage (your inbox) you are only 4 clicks away from un-deleting the email. The good news is that Gmail has made it incredibly easy to undo this process. Deleting an important email can be a nightmare.
