Why were all messages in my inbox deleted without warning nor my permission?

I am in the same position as the user who posted this.  I've used and paid for Hotmail for years and never had an issue until now.  And I'm still waiting to hear answers to the following:


Question # 1:   Why was my inbox cleared out without warning or my permission?

Question # 2:   Can those mails be put back back into my inbox or my Do Not Delete folder?

Question # 3.   How can I prevent this from happening in the future?


Microsoft---PLEASE help me!



I rebuilt my database profile and now my inbox is missing. Other folders (Sent emails, Calendar, Deleted Emails) showed up but no inbox. I have other accounts in the same profile and their inboxes showed up.


I have my deleted mail settings set to permanently erase deleted mail that's > 1 week old when outlook closes.

But when I close Outlook, it isn't permanently erased.

Any ideas?

Hi there, i've accidently emptied my deleted folder which had some important emails with it. I've read about solutions by clicking "recover deleted messages" however I cannot find this anywhere within the deleted folder :(. Please help!!

 

Thanks in advance.

I got click happy and I accidentally deleted all this old & necessary email from my inbox and then Deleted folder? Who can I send an email to or maybe even call to get that back for the day that this happened?
Hi there,

I work in IT and in the last 2 weeks, I've seen a really nasty issue/bug with Outlook 2011 for Mac.  The only commonality was that both users had very large "Deleted Items" folders.  We have an Exchange 2010 environment and the client OS is Mac OS X 10.7.3.

Case #1, 2 weeks ago:
The user uses the "Deleted Items" folder to store email for reference, as they would with any other folder.  At some point, the deleted items began duplicating and caused the mailbox size to grow rapidly out of control.  Eventually, the user wasn't able to send or receive mail due to mailbox limits we have in place, and it's at that time the user alerted us to the issue.  At this time, the user had 98k items in the "Deleted Items" folder.  We ran a deduplication tool on the mailbox, but as soon as the Outlook 2011 client was opened again, the duplication happened again.  We tried a few other things, but the duplication would happen again as soon as Outlook 2011 was fired up.  We even tried uninstalling/reinstalling Outlook 2011, but that didn't help either.  We ended up nuking the entire mailbox and manually importing items from a .pst.

Case #2, happening now:
The user also uses the "Deleted Items" folder for storage.  He filed a helpdesk ticket stating that his Deleted Items folder is spiraling out of control and is duplicating items over and over again.  He re-created his Identity Database but the problem kept happening.  He's running the latest version,14.2.2, and installed the update prior to the issue occuring.

My question:  What can we do to fix this?  Is this a known-issue? 
When I try to open Outlook it flashes and then quits and will not open.  Any suggestions for how to fix it and get it back working again?  I was trying to empty my Deleted Mail folder when this happened.