Outlook saving things to One Drive?

[Condi]

Wonder if anyone knew much about MS products and could point me in the right direction please.

I have a Hotmail account, had it for maybe 15 years, probably longer. Have never had an O365 account, free or otherwise. Never get any warnings about how much space is being used by emails, I kinda presume it's almost unlimited. Happy days.

Mum also has a Hotmail account. In the past she had a paid for O365 account, and is now on a "free" O365 account with 15GB of storage. I bought her a standalone copy of Office, rather than paying £65 a year for 365. She's been getting warnings that the One Drive space is almost full, and when I looked it is full of email attachments. It appears that email attachments are automatically saving to One Drive, or being counted against the space there. Is it possible to "unlink" the Hotmail account from the One Drive so the email attachments no longer save there? Ideally I'd also like to delete the O365 account completely and remove the One Drive, so her machine behaves more like mine.

I've had a really good look in settings, accounts etc, and it doesn't appear to be simple to do. I worry that because she was on O365 once it's now almost impossible to get out of, despite having a standalone copy and no longer needing One Drive or any 365 stuff.

[dapprman]

My understanding is Hotmail now uses your Onedrive space allocation, which is the same as Google with gmail and gdrive.

[GravelBen]

Yes, microsith have recently started counting all your email attachments etc towards your onedrive limit (which for a free account is 5gb total) even though they say you have a 15gb free email limit. Basically they are counting it twice to make most of the claimed email storage useless, and then they stop you from sending or receiving emails until you delete enough data to get it below the limit, or pay them for more storage. Scumbag move to change it like that and try to manipulate people into paying for more storage.

[untakenname]

I've noticed this with my hotmail account, has had a 5GB warning saying 'From February 1, you'll need more storage to send and receive emails'.

I've ignored it so far and it's still working, back in the day Microsoft had a 2MB limit then Gmail came along and they had to ditch the limit, I assume they will do similar this time rather than stop peoples emails and have them jump to Gmail or iCloud.

[Condi]

Yes, thanks all, there doesn't appear to be any way round it, so I've set up loads of rules to remove old unwanted emails, and also gone through and deleted many large emails from the past.

Amazing what there is in your inbox. I found hundreds of FHM Daily Dose emails from about 2005/6, sadly non of the links or pictures worked any more.

[GravelBen]

untakenname said:

I've noticed this with my hotmail account, has had a 5GB warning saying 'From February 1, you'll need more storage to send and receive emails'.

I've ignored it so far and it's still working, back in the day Microsoft had a 2MB limit then Gmail came along and they had to ditch the limit, I assume they will do similar this time rather than stop peoples emails and have them jump to Gmail or iCloud.

I've had that warning for a few weeks, a few articles I read said they are giving a year of extra storage while people sort it out - but as of yesterday my hotmail email actually stopped working until I could clear out some space on my onedrive to get it below 5gb.

Edited by GravelBen on Wednesday 29th March 21:43

[GravelBen]

MS must be desperate for income, they are getting very spammy with pop-up notifications on almost every page 'warning' me that my onedrive is nearly full (after a bit of cleaning out its at 82%) and trying to sell me extra storage.

[Brainpox]

GravelBen said:

MS must be desperate for income, they are getting very spammy with pop-up notifications on almost every page 'warning' me that my onedrive is nearly full (after a bit of cleaning out its at 82%) and trying to sell me extra storage.

They are taking advantage of the fact you’ve fallen into their ecosystem and hope you’ll cough up rather than move elsewhere. They’re all at it in one way or another.

[Condi]

Brainpox said:

They’re all at it in one way or another.

Business in "needing to make money" shocker! My hotmail account has 17 years worth of emails on it, all stored in some data centre somewhere. Not sure how that has ever made money for Microsoft, tbh.