Recover deleted outlook.com aliases
Users should have a period of time - a week would be enough for many people - to undelete aliases that were deleted from accounts (often by kids on xbox.) When an account is closed, users have 60 days to change their mind - they should have a similar option when aliases are deleted.
For an example of the problem this will solve, see this thread, https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/my-hotmail-account-was-deleted-while-my-son-was/2250b864-3712-4813-b736-e896e8146c25
Diane Poremsky
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Anonymous
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microsoft better not ignore this or make up stupid excuses
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Tara Byers
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My son deleted my email last night not knowing it would inactivate the entire account. i need this reactivated asap. please xxxxx@hotmail.com is the address i have used for over 20 years.
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Brad
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Same problem! My son was changing the way he logged into minecraft. In the end my email address has been permanently deleted!?!? Ive had it for 20+ years linked to everything in my life. PLEASE FIX!!!!
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Merry Yoe
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My Hotmail account was removed accidentally when I tried to replace the login detail to my Microsoft account.
Acc: ngmerry@hotmail.comI didn’t understand that my Microsoft acc is also using the same acc ngmerry@hotmail.com.
So, I want to replace my login email for Microsoft acc only and no intention to remove my ngmerry@hotmail.com acc.
Could you please retrieve it for me.
The reason I want to change it because NG was because I don’t use Ng as my last t name anymore but still need to keep my email account on ngmerry@hotmail.com.
Kindly help me and if you need to call me my mobile is +61 417656188
You may send message to my gmail acc or my other Hotmail address: msyoe81@hotmail.com.
I have a Gmail acc as well, but Gmail acc and Gmail email address are different. So, I’m a bit confused here with my Microsoft acc. I was thinking account is different with email. I have 3 emails acc with Microsoft.
Thank you and look forward to your reply, hope you could do it and retrieving my acc back.
Thank you so much.
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Tiffany Syron
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Business email changeover resulted in accidental delete of email and now their is no option to reinstate! How silly we realized straight away and could not rectify.
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Denise Potter
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I need this account reinstated, if possible, PLEASE! All of my Apple products are tied into it. It was deleted by ACCIDENT!
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Anonymous
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I hope someone in the Microsoft team sees this. I thought I was the only one having this problem. I accidentally deleted my work Hotmail by accident which I have been using for 10 years. I had everything tied to that account and now these Microsoft employees can only tell me there's nothing anyone can do. I've lost hope and I will never trust Microsoft again. All they've been doing is ignoring this.
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Nathan Myers
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I accidently deleted my hotmail account no more than an hour ago and now it is saying its unrecoverable. Please help.
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Juliana
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Couldn't agree more. Old hotmail email address was removed by accident, did not realise it would be unrecoverable or deleted permanently. Regretted it as soon as I found out (within 5mins) but was unable to reverse it. Please fix this.
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Shakil
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Agreed i have same issue my son has deleted my alias
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Mas Harada
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Microsoft, we all are in big troubles due to the deleted email addresses, you MUST do something, not that you impose your policy on us!!!
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James
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This is absolutely ridiculous that is a problem that even exists. Somebody at Microsoft has absolutely no common sense when it comes to the average user.
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Genevieve
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a month to recover an alias please
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Mas Harada
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I lost my 1
20 + years hotmail by error and I need to have this reactivated. Please assist!! -
Marifer
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How can you not give someone a period of time to recover a deleted account? Even 24 hours?! Especially if it was by mistake/accident..
I was helping my dad fix some issues he was already having with different aliases on his Microsoft Account (go figure). We thought we needed to remove his Hotmail account and re-add it, because it wouldn’t let him make it his “Primary Alias.” We figured the system was having an issue connecting to his Hotmail account... Well, turns out that now this account he’s had for decades and is connected to basically any platform as his username is now unrecoverable... unbelievable. Please FIX THIS
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Anonymous
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Absurd that this isn't possible, we did not know what we did when we got it all deleted. :(
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charles h.
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Just experienced this exact problem with my son accidentally removing my hotmail address making changes to that **** xbox account. This is absolutely ridiculous for Microsoft to have such a feature and not make it clear that it permanently removes and disables your email address.
Please correct this HORRIBLE feature and enable the recovery of removed email addresses.
It makes no sense to lock-out an email address.
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charles h.
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Just experienced this exact problem with my son accidentally removing my hotmail address making changes to that **** xbox account. This is absolutely ridiculous for Microsoft to have such a feature and not make it clear that it permanently removes and disables your email address.
Please correct this HORRIBLE feature and enable the recovery of removed email addresses.
It makes no sense to lock-out an email address.
Unbelievable!!! -
Naser Al Nuaimi
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This is really disturbing , please we need our emails asap !!!
All my work and everything was on that email , even accounts on more than 100 websites .. email was ( n49er_@hotmail.com ) please please please fix this ! contact me on ( n49err@gmail.com ) -
Anonymous
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This is a major disaster, can't access my mail any more,
please help us (on a very short) notice out !!
