Can I Recover Them?

[NoshowJones]

Nearly everything in my Archives has disappeared, this is the second time it has happened within a year.

This is with Hotmail, has never happened with my account with Yahoo.

Is there any way I can recover them? Some of them were very important.

[jenny2017]

Please try: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-orestoremail/my-hotmail-archive-folder-is-gone/11b7b538-c59d-4b86-99fb-a9b8d3d49bed

 

 

Since these quirks exist in Outlook Mail, I strongly suggest that you backup your important messages rather than use Archive.

Edited July 14, 2018 by jenny2017

[NoshowJones]

27 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

Please try: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-orestoremail/my-hotmail-archive-folder-is-gone/11b7b538-c59d-4b86-99fb-a9b8d3d49bed

 

 

Since these quirks exist in Outlook Mail, I strongly suggest that you backup your important messages rather than use Archive.

You mean like on an external hard drive? Or maybe just a usb stick?

[robblok]

1 hour ago, possum1931 said:

You mean like on an external hard drive? Or maybe just a usb stick?

Both are possible. 

[NoshowJones]

3 minutes ago, robblok said:

Both are possible. 

Thanks Rob, I have tried to put emails in my inbox on to my hard drive, cannot do it.

[jenny2017]

4 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

Thanks Rob, I have tried to put emails in my inbox on to my hard drive, cannot do it.

I'm always sending important stuff as an attachment via e-mail to my own e-mail address. Then you'll never lose anything. Or you save it in your One Drive....?

Edited July 14, 2018 by jenny2017

[jenny2017]

6 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

Thanks Rob, I have tried to put emails in my inbox on to my hard drive, cannot do it.

Please install the move to- copy to tool, no viruses included.

  https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-copy-to-move-to-on-windows-vista-right-click-menu/

 

  I'm afraid that you have to copy the written stuff and paste it on an MS office word document before you can save it.

 

  Why not sending it to your own address, then you'll never lose anything? 

 

  

 

   

[NoshowJones]

12 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

Please install the move to- copy to tool, no viruses included.

  https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-copy-to-move-to-on-windows-vista-right-click-menu/

 

  I'm afraid that you have to copy the written stuff and paste it on an MS office word document before you can save it.

 

  Why not sending it to your own address, then you'll never lose anything? 

 

  

 

   

Thanks, I will give it a go, I will also look at one drive, but now I would like to get rid of Hotmail, or Outlook

as it is now called, but all my accounts including Thaivisa are on it. I do have an account with Yahoo.

[jenny2017]

8 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

Thanks, I will give it a go, I will also look at one drive, but now I would like to get rid of Hotmail, or Outlook

as it is now called, but all my accounts including Thaivisa are on it. I do have an account with Yahoo.

Each Hotmail account comes with One Drive, 5 GB of storage should be enough.

[NoshowJones]

15 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

Each Hotmail account comes with One Drive, 5 GB of storage should be enough.

I would like to get rid of Hotmail as it cannot be trusted, but I have built it up over the years, and it would take a lot 

of hassle. It's not as if there is a way everyone who emails you at your Hotmail address can be directed on to another address at Yahoo, or is it?

[robblok]

5 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

I would like to get rid of Hotmail as it cannot be trusted, but I have built it up over the years, and it would take a lot 

of hassle. It's not as if there is a way everyone who emails you at your Hotmail address can be directed on to another address at Yahoo, or is it?

Like you said it gives a lot of problems if you change email adres. Personally I would not change it. But there are ways to redirect your emails. But I am not sure the free version of hotmail has this option. I know that it can be done with other email accounts. 

 

But hotmail like Gmail is also webbased I like the web interface more then the outlook interface. I only use the webinterface from Gmail and save all my datat there. I actually never delete emails (because of business), just bought more space at Gmail so i could store it all.  

[jenny2017]

29 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

I would like to get rid of Hotmail as it cannot be trusted, but I have built it up over the years, and it would take a lot 

of hassle. It's not as if there is a way everyone who emails you at your Hotmail address can be directed on to another address at Yahoo, or is it?

I don't understand your concern, but it's possible. My account was being hijacked once, that's all. I did like Hotmail much better than the outlook, but with Hotmail, you've got way more goodies on the same page. you can go to Skype, MS Office and so many other things.

  You only have to think about the options you've got on the upper left corner.

   But here's the solution:

 

  

 Click "Email forwarding" in the "Managing your account" section. Click the "Forward your mail to another email account" radio button. Type your Yahoo email address in the input box, then click the "Save" button. Going forward, any email sent to your Hotmail address will be automatically forwarded to your Yahoo address.

 

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/forward-hotmail-messages-yahoo-mail-50672.html

 

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/setting-up-outlook-auto-forward-47925.html

 

 

   

Edited July 14, 2018 by jenny2017

[jenny2017]

It's a pretty easy and straightforward process to set that up. Please see screenshot, sorry it's in German, it was my first ever e-mail address. 

 

  Just look at options............

 

 

Edited July 14, 2018 by jenny2017

[NoshowJones]

17 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

I don't understand your concern, but it's possible. My account was being hijacked once, that's all. I did like Hotmail much better than the outlook, but with Hotmail, you've got way more goodies on the same page. you can go to Skype, MS Office and so many other things.

  You only have to think about the options you've got on the right left corner.

   But here's the solution:

 

  

 Click "Email forwarding" in the "Managing your account" section. Click the "Forward your mail to another email account" radio button. Type your Yahoo email address in the input box, then click the "Save" button. Going forward, any email sent to your Hotmail address will be automatically forwarded to your Yahoo address.

 

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/forward-hotmail-messages-yahoo-mail-50672.html

 

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/setting-up-outlook-auto-forward-47925.html

 

 

   

Thanks, I have just archived this, I hope it does not go away until I delete it.

[jenny2017]

1 minute ago, possum1931 said:

Thanks, I have just archived this, I hope it does not go away until I delete it.

Where should it go to if you don't? send it away? 

[NoshowJones]

9 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

Where should it go to if you don't? send it away? 

Stay where it is I should think, but who knows for how long?