Woke up to a nightmare. Yahoo deleted 10+ years of important emails due to inactivity. Is there ANY hope?
Hey everyone,
I’m honestly devastated right now and just need to vent, but also desperately looking to see if anyone has managed a miracle in this situation.
I had a Yahoo email account that I hadn't logged into for a long time. It contained incredibly important emails, records, and memories. Today, I finally logged back in, only to find a notification from Yahoo stating that they have completely wiped my inbox because the account was "inactive."
Years of data, completely gone. Just like that.
I didn't know their official policy says after 12 months they purge the servers, but it feels like such a massive gut punch. It’s incredibly frustrating that there is absolutely no warning or way to download an archive before they pull the trigger on a permanent delete.
Has anyone ever found a workaround for this? Is there a specific support channel, a data request route, or an offline caching trick that worked for you to get anything back?
If not, let this be a warning to everyone else: go log into your old archive accounts right now before they wipe your history too.
Thanks for listening. 💔