Hotmail deletes messages in Outlook

[Adrian]

It seems that it is the intention of Outlook is to mirror Hotmail. I deleted
my messages in Hotmail to cleanup the account thinking that these messages
were safe in Outlook. Upon returning to Outlook, after deleting the Hotmail
messages online, my Outlook messages were also deleted, including the Archive
file. Is this the correct behavior of the products
(connector/Outlook/hotmail)? May I assume that all is lost? Is there a way
to modify this behavior in the future, such that the messages in Outlook are
safe from operations performed in Hotmail. I am just interested in
downloading the new messages as they arrive in Hotmail to my Outlook. I am
not looking to control my Hotmail account from Outlook or vice-versa.

 

[Brian Tillman]

It seems that it is the intention of Outlook is to mirror Hotmail. I
deleted my messages in Hotmail to cleanup the account thinking that
these messages were safe in Outlook. Upon returning to Outlook,
after deleting the Hotmail messages online, my Outlook messages were
also deleted, including the Archive file. Is this the correct
behavior of the products (connector/Outlook/hotmail)?

Yes, it is correct behavior. The contents of the Hotmail folders in Outlook
will exactly match the contents of the online Hotmail folders.

May I assume that all is lost?

If you deleted it and it is not in the online Deleted Items folder, then it
is gone permanently.

Is there a way to modify this behavior in the
future, such that the messages in Outlook are safe from operations
performed in Hotmail.

Only if you copy or move the items from the Hotmail folders in Outlook to
the local folders.

I am just interested in downloading the new
messages as they arrive in Hotmail to my Outlook. I am not looking
to control my Hotmail account from Outlook or vice-versa.

Outlook doesn't strictly "download" messages from Hotmail in the same way
that it downloads messages from POP accounts. There's two-way synchronicity
between Outlook and Hotmail.

 

[John]

It seems that it is the intention of Outlook is to mirror Hotmail. I
deleted
my messages in Hotmail to cleanup the account thinking that these messages
were safe in Outlook. Upon returning to Outlook, after deleting the
Hotmail
messages online, my Outlook messages were also deleted, including the
Archive
file. Is this the correct behavior of the products
(connector/Outlook/hotmail)? May I assume that all is lost? Is there a
way
to modify this behavior in the future, such that the messages in Outlook
are
safe from operations performed in Hotmail. I am just interested in
downloading the new messages as they arrive in Hotmail to my Outlook. I
am
not looking to control my Hotmail account from Outlook or vice-versa.

I am unfamiliar with Hotmail but if your access to Hotmail from Outlook
was via IMAP the messages were never on your computer. You were
looking at them on the Hotmail server. You would have to drag them
to personal folders in Outlook to keep them.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am unfamiliar with Hotmail but if your access to Hotmail from
Outlook was via IMAP the messages were never on your computer. You
were looking at them on the Hotmail server. You would have to drag
them to personal folders in Outlook to keep them.

Not exactly true. Outlook populates the client-side cache with copies of
what's on the server so that you can work offline and still access the
existing messages.

 

[Adrian]

Thanks, Brian! I was afraid that might be the case!