Exchange Online Mailbox Items Disappeared across all mailboxes??

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One of our clients migrated their mailboxes from on-premises to EXO using a 3rd party tool as part of the staged migration process (the cut-over is not done yet as they're gradually doing pre-seed batch by batch). It all went well and after a few weeks, they noticed a significant decrease in the migrated mailbox items volume across all mailboxes which appears to be a purge and they have no clue of how/when it occurred. 

 

Here's a sample mailbox. If they do a content search, the result returns with reasonable volume of content but the number doesn't match with the actual EXO mailbox. 

 

Content search result: It should be more than 2GB 

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Actual Mailbox status:

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Online archive is enabled but nothing has moved there anyway. We've checked the audit logs and found nothing relevant towards purge or move. 

 

Any idea what's going on here? 

 

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Examine the search report, it gives you a list of items and folders they are in. Judging by the stats shown above, it's likely that the bulk of the items ended up in the RecoverableItems subtree.