Complete disappearance of deleted items when I try to restore to i

[Danielle]

I tried to restore several items to my inbox. I selected them in my deleted
folder and right clicked and said Move to Inbox. Outlook gave me a weird
message "Creating new items from the selected items may take a while, would
you like to continue?" I said yes and after a few seconds an e-mail was
generated with all the messages as an attachment. When I canceled out of
that, all ym messages were gone from deleted folder and not in the Inbox.
When I try and move a few items at a time, they go right in, but this happens
whenever I try and move a large number of files. So I am currently missing
about 100 messages that I would like to get back! I have no clue what
happened and I am perplexed by it all... Where might these messages be?!

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Why would anything you still need ever be in your Deleted Items Folder,
especially so many items? Do you need help understanding what the purpose of
the Deleted Items Folder is? It is not an archive folder. You're attempting
to use it as such. I would suggest using Outlook as designed to avoid these
problems.

 

[Danielle]

Why would anything you still need ever be in your Deleted Items Folder,
especially so many items? Do you need help understanding what the purpose of
the Deleted Items Folder is? It is not an archive folder. You're attempting
to use it as such. I would suggest using Outlook as designed to avoid these
problems.

Thanks for being utterly unhelpful. I am not an idiot and I don't use the
Deleted Items folder as an Archive. I had been sending some messages from a
mailing list directly to the deleted items folder and then decided I wanted
to keep them, so I was trying to move them back into my inbox. This is not
something I do regularly by any means. Please don't bother being "helpful"
if you are going to be a jerk about it.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Just because you don't like the answer is no reason to take it out on me.
Answer is still the same. Move them back a little at a time, the way Outlook
was designed.

 

[Danielle]

Just because you don't like the answer is no reason to take it out on me.

Answer is still the same. Move them back a little at a time, the way Outlook
was designed.

It wasn't an answer. And I routinely move large number of files between
regular folders in Outlook.

It turns out that it had nothing to do with the number of files I was moving
but rather because a task item mistakenly got included with the messages I
was trying to move and so Outlook tried to e-mail it instead of move it.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Of course. The Deleted Items Folder is different from all other folders
because it is designed to contain all of the various Outlook Item types.
That's why migrating the DI folder contents en masse rarely works. When you
move an item to the wrong folder type it generates a different dialog.
That's also why the only workaround in that situation is to select the items
you want to restore individually to make sure you're restoring only the
correct item type.