Help, my old hotmail emails have disappeared from my inbox. In fact anything before 21/07/13 has been deleted unless it was in a separate folder. I suspect this is as a consequence of the migration to outlook (which I and many others didn't ask for). Strangely (and thankfully) all my sent emails are still in the sent folder ranging back to 2007.

How do I recover these as I need some emails for work and the majority for sentimental value?

I've tried recovering emails from my deleted folder already but this just brought back emails up to the middle of July when I had emails going back years and years.

If there is no way to recover these then this is a massive diappointment on the part of Microsoft. I can't even look to see if you sent me an email about the migration as this has been deleted too.

What a ridiculous situation and a massive disappointment. I appreciate that Microsoft are providing a free service and that server space isn't infinite but there must have been a better way than what has happened as I see a number of posts on here about the same topic meaning a massive amount of people who have put their trust in Microsoft as their email client have been let down and have lost important parts and memories of their lives.

For information, I mostly look at my emails via my mobile phone whilst logging on to a desktop occasionally to clear out and orgnaise previous emails.

I look forward to a response.