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
    2021-06-11T12:40:41+00:00

    What client are you using now? I'm surprised that MS development team hasn't resolved this issue yet.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-26T13:20:37+00:00

    Same problem. Outlook Android takes up too much space and cannot be transferred to SD card.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-18T06:03:06+00:00

    My outlook on my galaxy s10+ is using up over 28GB now and I'm getting a warning about "too many files have been created".

    If i reset the app it takes half a day and I'm back up to 10GB or more

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-15T04:01:08+00:00

    Yes... I've given up with Outlook for my IMAP account.  I just maintain a separate email app.  M$ should be ashamed.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-04-14T07:41:35+00:00

    My last message was 24th March - when I last had to reset my account.  Since then Outlook has been working OK with fluctuating User Storage size. That is, until today when it again went over 16GB (phone memory 100%) and I have now reset again. The good news is that it has lasted for 3 weeks instead of the usual 4-5 days. In the meantime, there seems to have been an Android update. When I re-added my IMAP account just now the interface has changed a bit. There is now an extra numeric field for entering the port number. I don't know if that is significant or if it is a Microsoft or Android change. I am watching for how long Outlook works now.

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