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Post by limousinlady on Apr 18, 2023 7:50:35 GMT 1
Yesterday, I noticed that I hadn't had any emails over the weekend. Apparently microsoft are introducing a limit and have added the amount of storage on the email account to the limited free cloud storage and had stopped the receipt and sending of emails to/from my account. It took me several hours to reduce the content of my email account to get near the storage but I then had to reduce the cloud content on my laptop. Well I dont want cloud content, I'd rather keep photos, information etc on my hard drive and back up, but when I deleted from the cloud it also deleted the photos from the hard drive. I managed to save photos to a pen drive and then deleted from my laptop.
How do I turn off the cloud and not have thing stored on their system except my email account. I had nightmare trying to log into the microsoft account with passwords and getting codes to access anything. Technophobe here, so simple explanation terms please. Thank you.
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Post by suein56 on Apr 18, 2023 9:19:38 GMT 1
Just to be clear .. this is MS One Drive storage ?
Or Google Cloud storage ?
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Post by limousinlady on Apr 18, 2023 9:58:02 GMT 1
Just to be clear .. this is MS One Drive storage ? Or Google Cloud storage ? MS One Drive storage. See - I said I was a technophobe
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Post by rabbit on Apr 18, 2023 10:54:55 GMT 1
What are you using to access Outlook? If windows which version?
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Post by suein56 on Apr 18, 2023 11:09:20 GMT 1
It seems MS changed the rules for Outlook at the end of January .. and attachments to emails are now counted towards the 5GB storage limit that MS accords you on One Drive. Whereas previously it was just the email itself that was counted in Drive storage. So it means that your OneDrive will fill up a lot faster as you have found.
The daft thing is Outlook mail gives you 15Gb of storage but you can't use it all because the mails and the attachments both now go to One Drive.
At present it doesn't seem as tho you can use Outlook without One Drive BUT someone, somewhere will come up with a solution or a workaround.
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Post by Le-Dolly on Apr 18, 2023 11:13:42 GMT 1
The daft thing is Outlook mail gives you 15Gb of storage but you can't use it all because the mails and the attachments both now go to One Drive. Do you happen to know what the storage limit is with a paid for version of MS Office 365? Many thanks.
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Post by suein56 on Apr 18, 2023 11:22:16 GMT 1
It looks as tho it might be 50Gb .. but don't count on that as I am no expert - I am just quite good at research The Gb limit seems to vary depending on which flavour of 365 you pay for.
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Post by limousinlady on Apr 18, 2023 11:29:56 GMT 1
What are you using to access Outlook? If windows which version? Windows 11
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Post by limousinlady on Apr 18, 2023 11:32:18 GMT 1
It seems MS changed the rules for Outlook at the end of January .. and attachments to emails are now counted towards the 5GB storage limit that MS accords you on One Drive. Whereas previously it was just the email itself that was counted in Drive storage. So it means that your OneDrive will fill up a lot faster as you have found. The daft thing is Outlook mail gives you 15Gb of storage but you can't use it all because the mails and the attachments both now go to One Drive. At present it doesn't seem as tho you can use Outlook without One Drive BUT someone, somewhere will come up with a solution or a workaround.
But can I disentangle one drive from my other drives, so that I can keep stuff on the hard drive without it going to the onedrive?
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Post by pcpa on Apr 18, 2023 11:55:20 GMT 1
I have never activated or used One drive, the cloud or whatever its called on hotmail, if this is happening behin,d the scenes I will not know how to get in there to delete unwanted stuff if my account gets blocked, even more problematic with my current vison.
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Post by suein56 on Apr 18, 2023 12:28:21 GMT 1
It seems MS changed the rules for Outlook at the end of January .. and attachments to emails are now counted towards the 5GB storage limit that MS accords you on One Drive. At present it doesn't seem as tho you can use Outlook without One Drive BUT someone, somewhere will come up with a solution or a workaround.
But can I disentangle one drive from my other drives, so that I can keep stuff on the hard drive without it going to the onedrive?I am sure you will be able to do that .. it's just finding someone who is familiar with Outlook etc who is having the same problem. Or looking up YouTube videos for a workaround. Remember it is only now problems such as yours are surfacing .. it seems MS didn't forewarn/explain too well what they had in mind to do and how it would affect Outlook users. Also badly thought out .. looking at the disparity between Outlook's 15Gb free space and basic One Drive's 5Gb free space.
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Post by pcpa on Apr 18, 2023 18:35:50 GMT 1
If or perhaps when it happens to me how can I even access this drive that I did not know I had and thought I had refused to implement.
Everything Hotmail does is about getting you to pay, thy know people who have remained loyal will in many cases like me have been running it for 24 years and wont want to change their e-mail address or lose old messaes.
The reading pane is now a fraction of the screen size and keeps getting smaller, functions get moved or lost alltogether, I cant find or use smilies any more, anything but safe senders/contactq mailis auto deleted after 10 days instead of 30.
All of the bove is corrected if you pay a subscription.
sorry for any typos.
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Post by limousinlady on Apr 18, 2023 19:30:03 GMT 1
If or perhaps when it happens to me how can I even access this drive that I did not know I had and thought I had refused to implement. Everything Hotmail does is about getting you to pay, thy know people who have remained loyal will in many cases like me have been running it for 24 years and wont want to change their e-mail address or lose old messaes. The reading pane is now a fraction of the screen size and keeps getting smaller, functions get moved or lost alltogether, I cant find or use smilies any more, anything but safe senders/contactq mailis auto deleted after 10 days instead of 30. All of the bove is corrected if you pay a subscription. sorry for any typos. I hope someone tech literate will be able to advise. I thought one drive was disabled on my laptop but apparently not. I have googled it and tried to disable but not sure that it has. If I can work it out, I am thinking of forwarding incoming hotmail emails to my Free (mobile email address) that is if I have one.
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Post by suein56 on Apr 18, 2023 20:23:59 GMT 1
If I can work it out, I am thinking of forwarding incoming hotmail emails to my Free (mobile email address) that is if I have one. I was going to suggest smthg along those lines .. but rather an automatic transfer of hotmail/outlook mails to another email account. You should be able to set that up .. from the replacement email account.
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Post by pcpa on Apr 18, 2023 20:44:57 GMT 1
My IT pal has been nagging me for years to use a computer rather than browser based E-mail package and have the stuff diverted to it, I know he is right but when I tried it the text size and icons were too small and very difficult for me to read, they would be impossible currently.
Also lets face it, when you have used the same E-mail address and package for 24 years you are reluctant to chnage even though its far more difficukt and restrictive o use than back then.
Sorry for any typos
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