Question about Outlook Express

Please help,

I have a large collection of emails which contain teaching worksheets but since moving to 'Outlook.com' from Hotmail, the search never returns any results even when I specify a folder and knowing full well that there are emails with that title in that location. 

Having read other posts from people who have the same issues I have tried to follow the advice given to them but have failed to solve the problem.

So far...

I have cleared the cache

Tested account on Google Chrome and Explorer

Tried different laptops and Ipad

Deleted over 4000 emails (and still tidying folders).

I think I may need the account 're-indexed' but I can't check if the account is 'indexed' as the web version doesn't have a 'file' option to select.

I'm all out of ideas now and is hoping someone can help as this account is becoming useless to me without the valuable 'search' option.

I need to secure sensitive emails to a safe place such as another external head drive,

1. How do I copy my emails and forward them on to this hard drive.
2. If I my MSN account was to be hacked, and the hackers behaviours caused all my mail to be erased will I be able to return all the emails back to its present from.

regards

Can you please change the Hotmail login picture as it gets on my nerves?

Kind regards Terence

I need to extract the embedded images in a email body and store it as an attachment into DB. When I see the mail content it has a <img> tag and starts with a src & cid followed by the Content-ID. But how to extract it and store as an attachment? I think i need to call outlook server to extract it. Someone please help me on this?

it is shown something like this in mail message [cid:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***]

<img width=3D221 height=3D124 id=3D"_x=
0000_i1029"
src=3D"cid:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***">