Messages deleted on HotMail: can I get them back somehow?

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Hi,Leo!I was unable2access my hotmail ID for few months.But when I opened it a week ago,all my inbox items have been deleted.But my access to the account was not at all restricted. How come this happen?I treasured few important items in the inbox.I havent deleted them nor anyone did that. That's for sure. One thing more. I found the earlier version of hotmail is no more there. Plz help to get my mails back and let me know at [Email Address Removed]
Thanking you in anticipation.

Hi Leo,

I transfered my yahoo mail history to my outlook but forgot to mark the "leave messages on inbox" and they got deleted from my yahoo inbox. However I've got them on my outlook, How can I forward them to yahoo again simultaneously so they end up separately as they originally where?

I have clicked on unsafe mail by mistake on my hotmail and I have lost one of my emails, I try to look into inbox, deleted mail and junks it is not there, could anyone help me how to recover this email

Hello Leo,
Like many people experiencing the same hotmail problems - I became a "victim" of Windows Live Hotmail myself losing all my Messages and Contacts twice in a short space of time. Naturally I use other e-mail Services like Outlook and IncrediMail to store and backup important messages.But.. it's not always naivety or stupidity of free Account Users to preasume that "things are safe" simply because they were safe for years. I totally blame Microsoft for the latest change in Hotmail Policies costing people the whole world of misery losing important or sentimental post. It's no good informing Custemers in "small print", or on some Help pages what will happen if the Account is not activated or signed in every 30 days, or even 120 as they now state.Or for that matter what will happen if you change from MSN Hotmail to Windows Live. It ought to be a PRIME MESSAGE IN RED, a prime Warning before MSN Hotmail changed to a "fancy" Windows Live. Have we all missed that message?? Did anyone said "hey all you free account users, be aware, all your messages will dissapeare".. I myself am not "stuck" in yesterday world and welcome Progress and Improvement!. It's that feeling of suddenly having egg on once's face and sinking dissbelieve that someone can take LIBERTIES with your stuff that angers me most of all. Without proper warning. I like to be naive when I chose so.. Being naive is'nt the worst thing that people might come over as. BULLING is. Not everyone constantly have acces to internet, some of us do have to attend things or people in our everyday life away from our computers and internet, but if in a process we find we are being ROBBED (that's exactly what Microsoft is doing with someones "property" and without any concideration!)- it's almost criminal. I had hotmail Account since Feb 2000 and kept all kind of, yes, sentimental messages and family pictures there. All gone. I have been giving that alternative address of mine to too many people to even remember. For the very first time in years it's not safe. Is that Progress?? Closing that Account in protest will not change a thing. Drop of water in the ocean. What else can be done??? Microsoft wouldn't be where it is now without us, Customers.. Trust me, I'm not a massive anty-Microsoft protester either. I simply like fair play.Kind Regards.

my husband deleted his windows hotmail by mistake with important mail on there is there any way possible to retrieve his hotmail?

i have read your site about deleted messages and inactivity and not being to retreive them. But i hear that all emails are kept on a adatabase by law for 1 year is this true? Does that mean the police can retreive emails even if the account was deleted say back in april 07?

I'm a paying hotmail customer. Yesterday a day and a half of both my inbox and outbox disappeared. I contacted customer support and they are giving me the excuse that an "unauthorized person" accessed my account and did this. Do I have any hope of retrieving these messages from them? Thanks

Leo,
i just recently accessed my account again and have difficulty receiving certain mails. i read of this 30 sign in period and am not sure what the problem is. I have access my account but don't receive some emails.
Appreciate your assistance.

i left my msn messnger running and someone deleted my important contacts. they were email adds of people who live very far away and all i had to contact them were their email adds.is there anyway of getting those deleted adds back or seeing what contacts got deleted? please help.i am really upset.they were all childhood friends.

Amongst its numerous weaknesses relative to MSN hotmail, Windows Live has a very nasty habit of incinerating newly prepared emails when the send button is hit. No confirmation is given of to whom the email is going, AND no email appears on sent list. It just evaporates and I know of no way of retrieving the carefully prepared text. Can you tell me how and why this occurrs and is there any action one can take to retrieve lost email or to avoid its loss. Copying the text prior to hitting the send key is a solution but easily forgotten and cumbersome. How can Microsoft produce such crap product. MSN never had this type of fault. Why go backwards in product development??? Appreciate your thoughts and help on this one.

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