Phone is a Moto X running Android 4.2.2, not rooted (yet?), native android email app with a hotmail email account. Everything works pretty well.
I had a bunch of draft emails in the native email app. Intended to finish & send them since I understood draft emails composed in the native app reside only on the device. But.. before I got around to doing that, yesterday I changed a sync setting on the phone which governs the hotmail account (Android Settings.. Accounts.. Corporate.. hotmail address) and it appears to have re-sync'd the whole hotmail account and removed all the drafts emails that were on the phone, now shows zero drafts. (I didn't intend to re-sync the whole email account).
Question: Is it possible to recover/extract those email drafts? Kinda want to have a plan before I proceed. Mobile data/wifi data is turned off in order to minimize potential file overwriting.
Option 1.. a) If the draft emails were marked deleted by the native email app could they still be on the phone's internal memory? And b) is there a way to recover/extract some or all of them from the phone's file system? (I'd be happy with anything including simple .txt format).
Option 2.. I have a MobileTrans backup of the Apps on the device from June/two months ago. Does that App backup file include draft emails written using the android native email app? Is the native email app even included in an App backup? I've not worked with or restored a MobileTrans App file yet. Couldn't find any answers on their website. I could just try to restore the June App backup and see what I get, but that could do a lot of overwriting on the phone including information since the June backup, so it's the last resort.
Sorry for the long message, tried to provide some detail. Any help or thoughts would be great.
I had a bunch of draft emails in the native email app. Intended to finish & send them since I understood draft emails composed in the native app reside only on the device. But.. before I got around to doing that, yesterday I changed a sync setting on the phone which governs the hotmail account (Android Settings.. Accounts.. Corporate.. hotmail address) and it appears to have re-sync'd the whole hotmail account and removed all the drafts emails that were on the phone, now shows zero drafts. (I didn't intend to re-sync the whole email account).
Question: Is it possible to recover/extract those email drafts? Kinda want to have a plan before I proceed. Mobile data/wifi data is turned off in order to minimize potential file overwriting.
Option 1.. a) If the draft emails were marked deleted by the native email app could they still be on the phone's internal memory? And b) is there a way to recover/extract some or all of them from the phone's file system? (I'd be happy with anything including simple .txt format).
Option 2.. I have a MobileTrans backup of the Apps on the device from June/two months ago. Does that App backup file include draft emails written using the android native email app? Is the native email app even included in an App backup? I've not worked with or restored a MobileTrans App file yet. Couldn't find any answers on their website. I could just try to restore the June App backup and see what I get, but that could do a lot of overwriting on the phone including information since the June backup, so it's the last resort.
Sorry for the long message, tried to provide some detail. Any help or thoughts would be great.
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