Outlook saving things to One Drive?

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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.

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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.

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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.