nhlpens66, currently, this process is automatically done by Hotmail and it isn't possible to preempt or configure it. However, we appreciate your suggestion and we'll consider your idea for future versions of Hotmail. FYI, I moved your post to the Windows Live... More

Hi designcoach , Currently, Hotmail doesn’t offer a feature that will enable you to store messages in your Deleted folder for a longer period of time. By design, messages in the Deleted folder are automatically purged after 5 days. This is done to ensure that... More

Hi Amy, I have engaged additional resources to help restore your sent messages. Unfortunately, the restoration has failed and we can no longer retrieve your sent messages. It is possible that your messages have been purged even before I attempted to recover it. As for... More

tiger01 , it's by default that messages on your Deleted folder are emptied every 5 days. There's no way to set a longer period for this. If you think that you may need a message in the future, I suggest that you don't delete it. You can just move it to a... More

Hi chasdix66, Messages in your Deleted folder are automatically removed on the 10th day the message stayed in the folder. Currently, we don't have an option to modify that said time. I'll have this forwarded to the Product Team so they can take a look at it... More

Hi sr12856cmc , By design, the Deleted folder is automatically emptied every 5 days. This has been set even on the previous version of Hotmail. Currently, Hotmail doesn’t offer a feature that will enable you to lengthen the period of time before the Deleted folder... More