I forgot I made this thread but something rather odd happened a few months ago. When Outlook bought MSN, a vast majority of my emails were just straight up deleted. Just gone. Well one day I decide to check my old MSN email and all of my old emails had randomly been restored. This shocked me because they were gone for years at this point.
This is relevant because a lot of my MSN group emails were back too. I wonder if it's possible for me to use the wayback on the URL in the emails?
Did you have to do anything to get these emails back? My oldest emails are from 2006 but I've had my hotmail address since 2001 or so. I'd love to get them back.
Btw I also used MSN Groups a lot between 2001-2006 and never migrated the group so it's all lost but it would be amazing to see it again.
Last Edit: May 15, 2023 19:42:17 GMT by robsoab: forgot to mention something about msn groups
I forgot I made this thread but something rather odd happened a few months ago. When Outlook bought MSN, a vast majority of my emails were just straight up deleted. Just gone. Well one day I decide to check my old MSN email and all of my old emails had randomly been restored. This shocked me because they were gone for years at this point.
This is relevant because a lot of my MSN group emails were back too. I wonder if it's possible for me to use the wayback on the URL in the emails?
Did you have to do anything to get these emails back? My oldest emails are from 2006 but I've had my hotmail address since 2001 or so. I'd love to get them back.
Btw I also used MSN Groups a lot between 2001-2006 and never migrated the group so it's all lost but it would be amazing to see it again.
So my emails are genuinely just @msn emails opposed to @hotmail. But when they changed hands to outlook, I didn't have to do anything that I'm aware of? For context, we got these emails when our phone service hooked us up with internet way back in the day, so I don't think they're like normal hotmail emails? I also just always knew the password so I'd continue to check in over the years which meant there was no recovery on my end.
If hotmail was anything like yahoo, they might have deleted inactive emails. Otherwise, just go to msn.com and see if you can do a password recovery, there might be a chance you linked it up with another email you still have access to.
I think the files themselves are backed up in random one drive folders based on what I found just from this search, but the website I had used to do that is now gone.