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
    2021-02-15T16:36:02+00:00

    After i read here i guess that i'm not alone. I report as well. I saw over 16 GB storage usage it shocked me. 😲

    Meanwhile but a little off-topic: Dangerous characters make Outlook App impossible. There is no way than to reset or update to against bad characters. But i can't now for much accounts... 🤯

    Update (Feb 2021): Storage usage shows now around 1,58 GB for no reason. Even i didn't reinstall or so. I can use Outlook App (Android) again. But still i don't unterstand why up and down... Was Outlook App Update since my posting there? Yes, Update did help, Version: 4.2104.2 from middle of february 🤷‍♂️

    Second Update (March 2021): It's back, not again! Now around 14 GB storage usage. 🤦‍♂️ I must use desktop or laptop again, to able to see my e-mails. Version: 4.2109.2

    It's time to tell: Dear Microsoft Support: Please fix it! And it's premium...

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-13T06:01:17+00:00

    It doesn't appear to be fixed yet.  And I guess it's down to M$ to fix it.....

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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