Emails vanishing from Outlook Express
I have Windows 10 and use Outlook Express for emails. I save certain emails in folders by month. For example my folders are named January 2012, March 2015 April 2019 and so on. Some folders might be named such as All Flight Safety Articles or whatever. After reading incoming emails I slide those I want to keep in their respective folder of which I have a list of 60 folders. Recently I selected folder January 2012 to read an old email. The moment I clicked to open that folder all the emails there flashed on for less than a second then vanished with a one line mesage saying "nothing to see here" or similar.
I then did the same to several other old folders and the same thing happened to them too. ie a momentary flash of the emails in the folder then they instantly vanish. I have now lost ten folders all more than five years old. I Googled the problem which suggested several ways of retrieving these lost folders. Unfortunately it all got a bit complicated for me because I am not a computer expert. Many of the missing emails were of real personal value to me. Someone told me that the contents of the folders must be in my computer somewhere. May be or maybe not. Appreciate any advice on how to retrieve the missing emails