Outlook - Android - Storage Use

Anonymous
2020-09-17T01:51:48+00:00

Hello,

I'm not the first one I think to ask this question, but I cannot find any satisfactory answer - Is their any way to control the space  used by the Outlook Android App?

I just removed the account the App was linked to this morning : it was going up to 1.2 G - managing 01 Email account - linked to 01 cloud.

Gmail app - to which 2 Emails account (same one and one other) are linked is using Gmail for a total space of 258 MB - and access to data, including files enclosed to the email, is as fast as with outlook app.

Even if I would like to keep going using Outlook app - it seams just to be impossible to use until the question is solved.

Hope Outlook developer will one day find the way around this question - or at least to allow to switch most of the data on the SD card.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-02-12T23:34:30+00:00

    Same problem. 

    Ruins my phone to be honest. However, help does not seem to emerge from this forum.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-11T20:47:32+00:00

    I have linked three IMAP and one Outlook.com account and they are now behaving as expected. Still, I don't dare leave the phone on the charger overnight. Maybe superstition, maybe it prevents a faulty service from running. A word from Microsoft would be appreciated.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-02-11T20:31:39+00:00

    Right - well, I'll stick my IMAP account back in and see if it behaves itself.  Thanks.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-11T20:19:24+00:00

    Hi all,

    Surprisingly, the outlook app on my Pixel 4a is behaving better than recently. Since two three days  I can again reply to IMAP emails and write news ones. Also, user data storage is kind of stable around 200MB. Still version 4.2103.0. There is hope!?

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-02-09T09:13:07+00:00

    Go into your "Developer Options". Scroll until you find one that says something to the effect of: Force apps to use SD card (or external).

    Depending how you access files on your device & the brand, when you are looking at the storage map of your device (or when you access Outlook via APPS in Device Settings, there will me an option to install on your SD card.

    The wording changes and with the last Android update for my Samsung Galaxy (yesterday) some system & app operations have moved under different headings.

    If my solution is a bit convoluted, do a Google search for "Force Apps to use external Android.

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    Yes but: "You won't be able to add a micro-SD card to the Pixel," which is what I have. In any case, using an SD card is only a workaround. Microsoft should fix the Outlook bug.

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