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emails disappeared from my archive folders

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adrianmquirk
adrianmquirk

Hi - I created folders for important emails and placed them in there over the past few years. The folders remain but the emails have all disappeared. I'm hoping its an easy retrieval.

Regards Adrian

Hi - I created folders for important emails and placed them in there over the past few years. The folders remain but the emails have all disappeared. I'm hoping its an easy retrieval. Regards Adrian
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Mapenzi
Mapenzi
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I have no explanation for your misfortune. Even if you have created your Archives folder and its subfolders in the Bin (Trash) folder, using the r-click "Empty Bin" command would have definitively eliminated all deleted messages as well as the Archives folder and its subfolders from the Bin. Just to be sure: r-click on the 2023 folder > Properties > General >> which is the "Size on disk"? Do the same with the other subfolders....

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