Outlook for Mac won't retain restored email database.

Hi all.
A couple of days ago I performed an export of what I thought was just pre-2014 emails from my Outlook for Mac 2011 program.
I turned out that all the emails were exported and, for some stupid reason, I had clicked the "delete" button during the export process so they all went.
The export file is around 2.5GB, which seems about right for the number of emails that were exported.
The problem is that I've been unable to import the emails back into the program. The instant error message I get says: "Outlook did not import an all your data. You stopped the import process before it was completed."
This happens even though I don't actually do anything.
Now this is where it gets weird, I have done two complete reinstalls from my Time Capsule. On both occasions, all my email reappears in the inbox, but then as soon as Outlook starts to sync, they begin to disappear.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can permanently restore my old emails?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
I'm using OS X 10.8.5

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