I have been attempting to reorganise my emails in Windows Live Mail when the following error occurred:

1. I used the "find" option to locate all the emails I had sent to a particular contact over the last few years

2. I selected all of these emails and then right clicked to move them to a special folder I had previously created for this particular contact.

3. The "move" proceeded without any errors at all and the email listings duly disappeared from the "Inbox" to the contact folder.

4. When I clicked on the messages in the new folder the content had all vanished and I received a "Message cannot be found" notification.

5. I get the same error message on every single one of these emails - none seem to have survived the "move" option

6. I cannot afford to lose this valuable business resource and I need to get these emails back again!

7. The question is how to do this and why did this horrible program failure cause such a catastrophic problem?