I have been working on solving a huge problem caused by outlook.com deciding to delete a huge number of emails from my inbox on the server, and then deleting them from my WLM files on my computer as well. Fortunately, I had another machine that was offline when it happened, so I believe I have recovered those emails from the other machine (by disconnecting it from the internet so it couldn't sync with the outlook server. They were backed up into storage folders. Now, I have backed up all those messages by exporting them first to a desktop file, then onto an external drive, and and then importing them onto my son's laptop into a brand new, virgin WLM app. I did not set up ANY email accounts on the new WLM app, and am waiting to see what happens when the import is done. Assuming they all show up in the storage folders of the new WLM on the laptop, will I be able to set up a new, different email account on WLM so that it cant sync with the original email account and possibly erase all the messages in the WLM folders that aren't on the outlook server any more? Will that different account be able to access the emails in the storage folders? I want to keep them all quarantined from the evil outlook server. Would t work with a non-outlook email provider like gmail or yahoo? Is there some trick to doing this? The idea is to be able to read and forward the old emails as necessary. Assuming that there is some way to do this, is there any way on God's green Earth to get all the messages MS randomly deleted from my outlook.com account BACK onto their server? I have noted in the forums that this sort of thing has happened to a number of people. I am three days into this -- I have a TON of emails (admittedly, probably 30-40,000 of them are undeleted ****) but I counted on MS to hold onto my emails until I chose to delete them. The backup and transfers take about 4 hours each. I pay for their service, and this was random and without warning.