ive somehow manage to delete them all ..on finding the windows live mail folder in the operating system under local  app data i have my folders listed and the subfolders but there all empty ! i see no recovery method here,are these e mails lost they go back 18 months ,operating system is windows xp with sp2 but these folders are listed as i had them but are empty.  i did transfer quite a lot of mail to local storage,so my question is are there copies on the server to help recovery,are these lost forever..ive used recuva but that's not found them either.

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