My outlook 2011 on mac is in a very strange state after I accidentally deleted all the the files in my home folder (oops).

I can't do any quick searches. All searches return no results. This is not the case on outlook web version, searches return fine there. I have tried rebuilding the database several times. I even created a new identity, set it as default, and setup the exchange again from scratch, but i'm running to the same issue. Very interestingly, there are no files in the Identities folder:

685b35a593c2% ls ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity
685b35a593c2%

also, the new identities I create don't get any folders or files in this location.

Please help!