I have a thread going elsewhere that has had some responses, but they are very widely interspersed.

It dealt with the repetitive disappearance of a folder using mail rules where I dumped all 4 accounts that I monitor; I would make a new folder, but there have been, now, 9 different disappearances of those folders.

Here's THAT discussion:  https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/livemail-files/windows-live-mail-subfolder-disappears-so-far-6/86d88f9c-08b6-49e0-97c7-281432883484

I do this new request only because the interaction in the other thread is extremely sporadic, with wide gaps in between.  There's a project I was working on in that computer that I really need to be active on, again, but which is not on this laptop where this thread is originating.  Other 'restore' threads seem to have active involvement, so I'm hopeful this will result in the same.

As seen there, I was advised to back up the files, and restore to a previous date.  I have done the backup, and not used that computer since that time in order to preserve the data.  Following the advice in that thread, and as shown in screenshots I provided there, I found that the disappeared folders appeared to be still in the mailstore folder, and other folders where I'd had some issues seemed to have lots of emails in them, but all showed the same date, despite, when previewed, being many years earlier.

As this store file has (well, that now remains to be seen; browsing suggests that there is lots of missing data) stuff dating back to 1995, and is essentially a record of all the significant stuff in my life from the dialup days (and therefore including multiple email addresses long dead), loss of this data is/would be very distressing.

I have various backups from which I may be able to extract those lost files, but for a variety of reasons (I live on a boat and power and other stuff means I don't back up as often as I should), it's been WAAAAY too long between my second-to-last and current backups (all real-time data, no compression programs); that likely means some corruption of the data in between.

I use gmail, so current stuff I wanted to keep is still archived on their server.  And, while I'm using the laptop, WLM will recognize from the database in my navigation station computer (the one I do all my work on) that all those mails I've saved in gmail's server haven't been pulled into that mac address (I presume that's how it knows) and fetch them, updating that computer's files.

However...

Assuming I can find a 'previous version' from which to 'restore', there will be some (MANY) number of emails which were received (while I was waiting for responses in the above-referenced thread; the last was 11-13-16, over 3 weeks ago) between that restore point date and current, in various folders, some copied via mail rules into other folders, too, including ones related to that project I need to get back to.

What happens when I do that restore?  Are they (the ones received after the restore date) still available in the folders which are restored?  If not, will the ones I've archived in the gmail server be pulled again?  If not one or both, how do I protect them (recall I have a backup, now, of the last time the WLM on that computer pulled emails) so I can get them into the newly restored system?

With hopes of active response (vs weeks long intervals of silence), thanks...

L8R

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