my emails from the inbox all disappeared suddenly this morning. How can i get them back?

Anonymous
2024-02-17T10:10:38+00:00

Hi A week ago all my emails disappeared - new emails come in - but all my emails from years back - I need them for tax purposes etc - so this is really distressing.

I have a PC running on Windows 11 - One drive is connected - The emails are not in the deleted folder - nor in the archive folder - I can't find them - yet when I search one - they show up - I can search for instance an email name and then many emails will show up - but they are not in my feed. It is my outlook account.

HELP? I am not a computer wizz so maybe there is a simple trick.

Thank you Barbara Droubay

Outlook | Windows | New Outlook for Windows | For business

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-21T07:06:30+00:00

    That happened to me too. I have no idea where all my emails went... It's very disappointing and I think it should be illegal and not accepted from a trustable public plateform !

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-01T19:37:43+00:00

    For us, mere mortals, how in the world do you rebuild an .ost file?

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-05T19:16:49+00:00

    It was missing from my new Outlook app on Windows 10.

    I found more email in the Outlook 365.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-25T09:54:57+00:00

    Hi

    This happened to me yesterday - Emails are missing from a specific date (13/02/2025 to 09/04/2025) - both inbox and sent items - all the changes I made to the mailbox since the last email13/02/2025 to 09/04/2025 has been lost. Outlook downloaded all the mail from the 09/04/2025 again as if its new mail - but these are not duplicated - so its like I never had all those emails

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-05-04T06:43:53+00:00

    in my google chrome web browser

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