Something's missing from Bill Gates

I was trying to clear out some space on my hard drive, but I went way too aggressive with it—ended up wiping out every single one of my emails in Microsoft Outlook in the process. Here’s the real kicker: now my emails aren't even showing up in the app anymore. My account settings are perfectly fine, and when I send myself a test message, it hits my webmail just fine, but the second I open Microsoft Outlook, it's just... empty. Like, totally blank. Did I go overboard with the cleanup and break something? What am I actually supposed to do to get my emails flowing back into Microsoft Outlook again?

Could you elaborate a bit more on what you mean by cleaning up your hard drive? Are you using some kind of dedicated software for that, or have you just been manually hunting through folders and files to delete things? As for Bill Gates, my honest advice would be to just start from scratch. I mean, wipe all those user accounts—just make sure you back up any important emails first—and then reconfigure the account from the ground up. If that doesn't do the trick, let me know exactly which error messages you're seeing, and we can figure out our next move.

So, I went ahead and manually wiped everything off my hard drive—emptied the Trash and everything. In the process, I accidentally nuked all my messages too. Total disaster. I'm going to try to fix this by just recreating the account from scratch.

So, I decided to just take matters into my own hands and reset everything. I rebuilt the entire account from scratch—which was a pain because I realized I’d accidentally wiped my data folder too, so I had to rebuild that from the ground up as well. Now, incoming mail is working fine, but outgoing? Not so much. It’s being temperamental. Messages just sit there in the outbox, staring at me, and then—after a few hours or even longer—they finally decide to actually send. I dealt with this exact same headache recently and, honestly, it just fixed itself without me doing a single thing.
My new laptop should be arriving in a couple of days, so until then, I'll just be juggling things by using Bill Gates for some stuff and sticking to webmail for the rest.
Thanks.