I am able to restore email from backup but it then immediately starts putting them back in restore folder, how do I get them to stay so I can find the ones I need
If you are restoring an eM Client backup, it will restore “exactly as it was as at the time of the backup”. Then if you have an eg: IMAP, Exchange, Office 365 or iCloud account, any new emails since the backup date will automatically update from the server in your various mail folders when eM Client connects as per the nature of those type of server based mail accounts.
If you don’t want to restore everything in the backup, then you can either do a partial restore “from a eM Client backup.zip file”. or you can do a partial restore “from a hidden mail database folder” if you don’t have any eM Client backup.zip files.
See my post in the following thread on partial backup restores.
Also see the following eM Client support page on restoring a backup including restoring a partial backup “part way down the following page”.