Briefly Interrupt My Regular Rant, for a rant about technology/scream for help.

Went looking for a way to save my email folders and sub-folders I had been creating in MSN Hotmail for years.  Thinking they would be included in the exporting of files that one can do.  Was just moving to Outlook or livemail.  Some of them transfer but no one tells you what for sure you are transferring.  Or if your pc crashes by chance you would assume your email folders were safe inside MSN.  Nope. Maybe occasionally.  Anyway, eventually all my crazy posts will matter somewhere someday.  Or not, either way, here they are, until they are not.  As I learned all too well when I attempted to avoid the whole gmail, google account nightmare that now holds my YouTube Player List and my Email Folders and even my Favorites list hostage.  Sure I can delete my accounts but along with it goes all of my hard work.  Next there will surely be an annual fee to pay to keep it as my own.  Don't get me started on the media  available to store it on and how it fails continually.  

Michael NelsonRizzo replied on 

 

Thanks for your help Diane. I am using the Hotmail Connector. I realized through my online research that the only way to transfer the folders was with the Connector. 

Since I posted, I dumped the first instance of the Hotmail transfer and started over with another try. As with the first, the 2nd instance easily (and within minutes) downloaded all of the folders (over 50) from my MSN account. (I was excited it was going to be too easy!) Yet again, what's missing are the emails going back years. Originally, I first happened to notice the 'missing old email' problem in one folder that only showed a recent email from August 2012. That email showed rather quickly. But in that same folder, emails before 2012 did not show up in Outlook though they are in my MSN account. I haven't been able to determine with assurance how far back things have transferred. The earliest emails I see in Outlook go back to March 2012. For your information, that was in the "inbox." But the oldest email I can find in a folder made by me is from June 2012.

Currently, I also cannot tell what is transferring. In the DETAILS it says 33% and is spinning spinning but there seems to be no progress on the status (Sending/Receiving) bar. Even though it says 33% the bar is mostly full (lets say 95%.) I cancelled it a number of times last night and restarted but it was the same thing. It gives me the feeling that things are "stuck" and NOT doing anything. I don't know if I'm to wait and let it just percolate.

If there is a workaround - even just one that allows me to download all of the online MSN account emails and fix this later, that would be fine. The most recent MSN emails are fine for now but I can't erase years of information just because it won't transfer. I intend to keep my MSN account but NOT use it. I want to use Outlook and may gravitate towards Gmail. 

It seemed like there was a Connector server glitch mentioned previously. If you have any ideas or forums to read, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. 

tamijt4 replied on June 21, 2015

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 In reply to Michael NelsonRizzo's post on December 27, 2012

Seems nothing has changed.  Less and less control over my own personal information.  Had msn email addresses for years.  Then forced to use outlook, realizing that the personal folders, sub, and sub sub folders that I have created and stored my life in are gone.  They were still in MSN hotmail account after doing an export file.  Just looked today and now they are gone from inside Outlook on MSN as well.  Right up there with my favorites.  I am old I suppose but my favorites were always mine.  Talk about folders and sub folders.  Log in one day and 2000 favorites have been "smooshed" into one big folder and I don't know where to start.  5 years of OCD folder-ing, sub-foldering, sub-sub foldering all gone.  Why do we pay for programs/software/any of it?  There should be some way to find the "dump" of all my folders at least or some warning when changing the complete make-up of a program.  Guess they knew what they were doing when the small print started saying "we can access your personal information at any time and can't be held responsible for failure of any of it."  Well done mourning my emails now off to find a use for my WebOS Touchpad.....  Possibly enough reflective coating and I can use it for a mirror.