{"id":955,"date":"2018-05-02T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T12:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fileinspect.com\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2018-10-03T18:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:55:23","slug":"return-outlook-mail-if-the-letters-have-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fileinspect.com\/blog\/return-outlook-mail-if-the-letters-have-disappeared\/","title":{"rendered":"How to return Outlook mail if the letters have disappeared?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOnce we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014E. E. Cummings<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

When you open your Outlook 2010 and notice that most of the messages are gone, you must be wondering where all your emails have disappeared to or maybe you logged into a wrong account. <\/span><\/p>\n

I guess you have a lot of questions about where your emails go and how you can prevent them from vanishing<\/span><\/h2>\n

This problem must be very frustrating because emails nowadays are very important. Many people use them as storage for important documents, password recovery and most importantly for work, and if you have lost messages in your email, this means that you have lost a bunch of important information.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fear not because that is exactly why we have written this article. Here, we will show you how to fix the email disappearing issue in outlook. Many have reported that they only experience this problem in Outlook. It does not occur on other emailing platforms. We all know that Microsoft is trying to integrate all of their products into the Windows operating system, and this sometimes causes them to malfunction as we see in this case.<\/span><\/p>\n

There could be different reasons why you are experiencing this issue. It could be a problem with your configuration settings, the inactivity of your account, email settings on Outlook which deletes emails after a certain period of time, or you have switched on the Conversation Threading feature.<\/span><\/p>\n

You should also note that just in case you are thinking that the problem came as a result of you upgrading Outlook to a newer version, you are wrong. This is because the upgrade changes only the user interface, so your emails are not touched and remain intact.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, your emails may disappear as a result of changes made by Microsoft. We can back this up by giving an example in 2016 when they switched platforms from POP\/IMAP to Exchange. This means that there was an upgrade for anyone who was using @Hotmail, @live, @msn or @outlook. This led to an issue where all your emails in the previous platform were not transferred to the Exchange platform. Instead, the emails were stored on the PC or device but not on the server. That is why Microsoft found it difficult to transfer your emails after the change of the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many users have asked \u201cwhat if Outlook emails are disappearing?\u201d To find out the answer to that question, you will need to read till the end of this article because we have provided all the possible reasons and how to fix them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before you begin any of these solutions, we always advise you to back up your system files and create a restore point. This will be of great help if you run into trouble while trying to fix the problem. You will find it very useful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Table of contents<\/span><\/h2>\n
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  1. Export old message history<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Create a new profile in Outlook<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Import old emails<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Try the recover lost\/deleted emails setting<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Clear all filters<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Search emails, using the Advanced options<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Change filtering options<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Switch on the Don\u2019t let another program delete messages from Outlook option<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Set up a backup plan<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Download and install the Auslogics Anti-Malware tool<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Solution 1. Export old message history<\/span><\/h2>\n