To avoid confusion I am referring to my Outlook.com email account as Hotmail since that is what it originally was (and I wish it still was outlook blows chunks) I decided to try linking my Hotmail email account to Office Outlook 2007 this morning so I could click email us links on websites and be able to email them without copying the link address into Hotmail. After successfully doing that and getting Outlook 2007 to look and behave the way I wanted (or so I thought) I selected all the emails in the inbox and marked them as read because I had already read them in Hotmail.
When I went back to my Hotmail account I noticed my inbox was completely empty and a new folder had appeared as a sub folder of my Deleted folder named POP. Since I had just created a POP3 link to my Outlook 2007 I assumed the emails I had marked as read had been moved there and they had been. This worried me because I want to keep those emails and I know that the deleted folder get emptied automatically each week (or is that the junk folder?). I don't want to move those emails to a new folder to save them I WANT them in my inbox. So I moved them back to my inbox where I WANT them to stay.
I went back to Outlook 2007 and now I have a duplicate of all those emails I had moved. The duplication is not that big of a deal to me but, I think all those emails will now get archived on my hard drive in the Outlook 2007 archive file adding more clutter and wasting HDD space. I don't want that either. I have always used my Hotmail account as a sort of cloud based archive for important files and pics etc that I don't want to lose if something bad happens to my PC like a failed drive.
While in my Hotmail account I noticed a barely noticeable message at the very bottom of the window that said "
Your messages are in your POP folder!
Some other program is set to download and delete your messages from Outlook. Just in case this was an accident, we've put them in a special POP folder. Not an accident?
Change settings" I clicked the Change settings link and got this instead the settings page "
Sorry, there seems to be a problem with Outlook right now"
Sorry, there seems to be a problem with Outlook right now"
I have several questions:
What do I have to do to prevent Outlook 2007 from doing this again and duplicating emails when I move them back to my Hotmail Inbox?
Do I need to uninstall Outlook 2007 or is there a setting I need to change there?
I have read a few other threads that say they have lost their emails and I wonder if they did the same thing I did with linking their Hotmail account to their Office Outlook?
Almost all the threads were from today so is this just a temporary glitch?
Sorry I tend to be a bit on the wordy side but, as a great Treant once said; "If it is worth saying, then it is worth taking a long time to say it."
Respectfully,
MontyFly
