Restoring a deleted account

I really really hope someone can help me! I've deleted a mail account in my preferences and now all the emails for that account have gone from the inbox and the sent messages folder. I mistakenly thought that the 'account' was simply a record of the mail setup, not responsible for the storage of the downloaded and uploaded emails as well. Why doesn't it come up with a alarm box to let you know that you could be about to delete extremely important material!!!???

I don't know about your Mail app, but mine pops up a big dialog that asks Are You Sure You Want To Delete .... Was that not a loud enough alarm?
Unfortunately, once you delete an account it's gone. Your mail ISP, however, maintains account backups. They may not be 100 percent complete, but they may be able to recover a substantial part for you. You will need to contact them to find out if they can restore your account for you from their backups. Do this quickly before they delete the data from their records.
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I deleted an account when I was going to change services and now need to restore it, any ideas if it still exists somewhere and if I can restore it,

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Restore after deleting iCloud account.

Hello,
I bought an iPhone 5S second hand.
The owner deleted his iCloud account in front of me : Setting>iCloud> "delete account"
Back home, I restored the phone with the lastest firmware. It worked perfectly well.
The phone rebooted.
But now it is asking me for the iCloud email/password that was previously deleted.
The owner has left the country. I only had his phone number (that is now disconnected).
What am I supposed to do ?

Based on Apple Documentation, if the old owner did disable Find my iPhone, you wouldn't have to enter a password, as the Activation lock is a Find my iPhone functionnality and it works with it. Disabling it disables the activation lock too. But seeing your situation; this may help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4515
(You will need to find the previous owner for that)

I accidently deleted my recently used tabs. The area to restore them is not highlighted. How do I restore recently deleted tabs?

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I accidently deleted my recently used tabs. The area to restore them is not highlighted. How do I restore recently deleted tabs?

Your redemption code was used to acquire an activation code. The activation code is what you need to use when you want to reinstall/enable the software again. Check your Adobe account online to see if the number(s) can be found there.

HT201272 Im unable to find deteted apps in purchased section in App Store ..please help me in restoring the deleted app

Im unable to find deteted apps in purchased section in App Store ..please help me in restoring the deleted app

Is the app still in your country's store (if it isn't then you won't be able to redownload it), you haven't changed countries since buying it (content is tied to the country as well as the account), and it isn't hidden : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4919 ?
If the app is no longer in your country's store then do you have a copy of it on your computer's iTunes library and/or on your backup of your downloads/library ?

Is there any way to recover deleted account on outlook express?

I didn't know that deleting account in outlook express will also delete the DBX files of that account. Is there any way to recover the dbx files?
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Unfortunately, the mail accounts settings (and messages rules) for Outlook Express are stored in the Windows registry and not in a file that can be easily restored.

Big Red "Delete Account" Button in iCloud Settings

I've been trying to research this here, but I can't find an answer. I'm trying to change the iCloud account on my wife's iPad. She just created a new account, but the old Mobile Me account that I'm using on my Mac and iPad is already in her iCloud account and grayed out so I can't change it. I think I'm supposed to push the big red "Delete Account" button, but I'm worried I'm going to delete my main Mobile Me account. Does "Delete Account" mean just for the iPad, or for the account in general, where I'd lose all my songs and apps? This button is very confusing. I want a "Change Accounts" button or a "Log Out" button instead.
So, what happens when I push the big, red button?

If you hit the "big red button" it will only delete the iCloud information on the local device. I tested this on my iPod Touch and can verify that hitting "the button" des not delete the entire account.
Actually, IIRC, when you hit the button, I think you have the option of keeping a local copy of the data, or deleting it from the device. If you are super paranoid, you can do as I did before I made my test. Make local backups of all the data. On my computer, I exported my calendars to a local backup, and I did simiar with my contacts. THis way, if everything did get deleted, I had a local backup to restore from.

Reactivate deleted account?

Last year my previous account was accidentally "deleted" by the Skype Manager. She just wanted to remove me from the group, but unfortunately she also clicked the option to delete the account. At that time I was told by Skype Support I cannot recover my account any more, although it was my personal account before joining the Skype Manager and not the business account created by the Skype Manager.
The "deleted" account is now in some kind of a half-alive state in the Skype database. I am getting e-mails from it if I request some action, for example I can successfully change the password, but I cannot sign into it. The main problem is that it shows up when people are searching for contacts and they pick the "deleted" account which is not usable.
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It should be either possible to completely reactivate it or delete it from the list of found contacts when searching for a contact.
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Hi, Mrihtar,
Thanks for writing again! After a lot of hunting and digging, here are two options:
Contact Customer Service again, describing the details of which Skype Manager account your personal account had been added to, and accidentally "deleted" from, and request the account be reactivated or unblocked. If the account can not be restored, request that all profile details be removed on your behalf.
You can now request this account be removed from the search directory, which would put an end to the confusion. You would need to contact customer service to request this. More details here: 'Can I delete my Skype account?'
Christian_O,
Unfortunately, the Skype accounts created under the first Skype Manager program "belong" to that program; and like everything else in Skype, the account names are not transferrable to the new Skype Manager account. Please contact customer service preferably the Customer Service link you can access from the Skype Manager dahsboard, to enquire further.
Best regards, with my embarrassed apologies for the delay in replying,
Elaine
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How to recover deleted account and its files ?

I have 2 accounts on my iMac and deleted accidentally one of the accounts and its files. Since both accounts are backed up via time machine, can I recover the deleted account?
I tried to find it on time machine but with no success. Could someone help how to trace the deleted account on time machine?
Many thanks
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+I have 2 accounts on my iMac and deleted accidentally one of the accounts and its files.+
In your admin account, go into the Accounts preference pane and recreate the account, if you deleted it from the list. If you didn't delete it, do so now and then create it again. That will create a new home folder for the user. Then log in as that user and restore the files.

TS3899 deleted account and reopened it , made it worse, now cant do anything, it wont open emails says has no content and cant access them at all

Cant get into email account all of a sudden. Tried shutting down, deleted account and then opened new account....get into mail....says there are messages but they have no content, cant, delete them or even get into them....help!!! oh and when I go throug HOTMAIL on safari I have no problems

I'm having the same problem as the OP, I can't find that file "profiles.ini"
can't re-install firefox, deleted all files related to Mozilla and Firefox, still locked out by missing Firefox profile
I posted on my own problem recently w/ no response (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/search?a=1&asked_by=GPStyne&w=2),
so far all posts on this support page have been confusing and I've been unable to find any of the things they spoke of trying to change it.
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My iCloud address on the iPad needs to be changed. If I press "delete account" it tells me I will lose all the content including pictures. How can I change it? I see other people have had the same problem

I have had to change my e mail address but I cannot work out how to amend it on my iCloud account. If I press "delete account" the box appears telling me that I will lose all content including photos if I continue. The box asking for a password keeps appearing but I just press cancel and continue.
I have not attempted to upgrade to iOS 7 until this problem is sorted. Can anyone help please?

If you mean that you created a new icloud account using a new email address as the primary address, then when changing to that account on a device, all data maintained by the old account will be deleted. I was not aware that photos are included. But as for photos, ALWAYS sync them to a computer for archiving, never rely on icloud as your only backup.
If you want to keep the contacts, etc. data from the old account, then go to Settings>icloud and turn off the services, one at a time. When doing so, you are given the choice to keep the data local or delete from the device. Later, when doing Delete Account and logging into the new account, your data will sync up to it.
If, on the other hand, your changed email address is just an alias in the existig icloud account, then there's no reason to delete the account as the alias is just another link to the same account.

HT5312 Alright, I have two apple ID's and I deleted the other on a whim a while back. Now whenever I need to update the iphoto or iMovie, it says to sign in into my deleted account, but I don't remember my old account's password either.

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Check the AppleCare number for your country here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
Call them up, and let them know you would like to be transferred to the Account Security Team.

Our icloud id has 2 phones being backed up to it. If I do "delete account" on one iphone, will it delete the other phone or the contents on either?

When I got my iphone this week, I simply used my daughter's icloud account to back up to. Fortunately, the only thing I backed up was the music, which we both like to have access to, but I had unselected the contacts and calendar for fear of having duplicate contact info. Now I read that if I hadn't deselected them, it would have created duplicates. That being said, I suppose I need to create another icloud id for myself so i can just back up my info without merging the two. If I understand most of the posts I have read so far, if I do the "delete account" on my new phone, my daughter's info and phone will not be affected and will remain under her original icloud id? Then I can create my own icloud id and back up to it? I just don't want to lose her information by deleting that account from my phone. Should I go through the icloud settings on my phone first and deslect all of the options from backing up to the icloud before I delete the icloud account from my phone? BTW, my daughter's phone is an iphone 4 and mine is the 4s, if that makes any difference.

Deleting the account on your phone only removes if from your phone. The account and it's data remain intact and doing so will not effect your daughter's phone.
To do this, first go to Settings>iCloud on your phone and turn any synced data (contacts, calendars, etc.) to Off, and when prompted, choose to keep the data on the phone. When finished, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account. Then set up a new iCloud account with a different Apple ID and turn any data you want to sync with iCloud (contact, calendars, etc.) back to On. This will upload your data to your new iCloud account.

If I click "delete account" at the bottom of my iCloud settings, is it deleting my whole account?

When installing iOS 5 I somehow linked my iCloud to my moms account both on my iPhone and iPad. If I select the delete account button at the bottom of the iCloud settings, will it delete the account off of my moms phone too? She would rather not delete her iCloud account.

What u mean delete ur account would it delete my pictures ?

Can I delete account without deleting messages?

I have old email messages from friends and family that I want to keep in my mail folders, but I no longer use that email account. Can I delete the account without deleting all the historic email associated with it? Or do I have to look at that now grayed account name forever in my sidebar?

thanks. That is just what I needed. I currently have three accounts, including the one I'm deleting.
If I understand you right, all I need to do is move all my messages out of the INBOX of the account I'm deleting, and into other folders I created under the ON MY MAC section. Deleted account messages will only be deleted from the INBOX. (well, HELP should have said so, instead it just said ALL mail from that account will be deleted).
Now, if I SENT mail from the account I delete, that account's mail in the SENT folder be deleted also because it has not been moved into a folder I created in the ON MY MAC section, Correct?

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