Windows Live Mail does a "recover lost space" function, or something like that, at intervals when I close out of email.  I don't remember the exact name for it.  The dialog box that says what it's doing flashes on and off very quickly.

When it is finished, I will find that it has created a new Recovery sub-category, with the day's date, under the main Storage Folders category, and it will begin filing new folders under that heading.  Which puts them 'way down the list in the left-hand column of my email page.  And sometimes it will change the names of old folders, and move them, as well.

This is obviously a major malfunction, since it's not recovering any lost emails.  Does anyone know why this is happening, and how it can be fixed?

And while we're on this, why doesn't Windows Live Mail have its own category?  Why do I have to use Outlook?  I haven't had Outlook since I got Windows 8.

Thanks.