Done something stupid

[Japtastic]

I removed my IMAP account from Outlook 2011 and all my folders and emails have disappeared. I tried going back in to the old identity and the folders are there but the emails aren't. The IMAP server is no longer so I can't get in to it that way

Are they stored any where else or have I lost them for good?

No time machine backup. (I know, what a ****!)

 

[GSPice]

I removed my IMAP account from Outlook 2011 and all my folders and emails have disappeared. I tried going back in to the old identity and the folders are there but the emails aren't. The IMAP server is no longer so I can't get in to it that way

Are they stored any where else or have I lost them for good?

If the IMAP server "is no longer" how were your emails syncing before? Were they even syncing? Hopefully an IMAP and Outlook expert will chime in; I would've thought that if your email was deleted by removing an IMAP account, then your email was syncing only with the IMAP server, without saving a local copy (which I would think would require another prompt, i.e., "delete local mail?" when you removed the IMAP account).

 

[Japtastic]

I just don't know

I'm hoping they are somewhere as there is some important stuff in there that would be a pain in the ass to loose. I have found a 'Database' file that is around 1GB but this may make up all the other folders and not the IMAP one's...

 

[simonsi]

When did you last actually see the emails there? If the imap server disappeared some time ago did the emails get archived locally due to age?