Change default location for downloading attachments

Anonymous
2023-03-15T21:01:06+00:00

I can't believe I have to ask something so dumb but how to I make Outlook ask me every time where to save the email attachments that I am downloading instead of automatically putting them in the Downloads folder?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-14T13:19:40+00:00

    I have the same issue. However, when converting my outlook back to the old version it does not show any of the emails received since I switched to the new version. Did you have the same problem?

    Any help is greatly appreciated

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-14T08:51:36+00:00

    Still a slightly different behavior here:

    • Download does NOTHING (the file cannot be found anywhere on disk or on OneDrive)
    • Save to OneDrive works but obviously defeats the intial purpose of downloading an attachment locally

    MSFT devs, it's 2023, try to stop having people push useless stuff on the cloud and waste petabytes of storage...

    Overall I like the new Outlook 2023 but this feature makes me want to scream

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-13T21:05:34+00:00

    I was chalking this up to sheer laziness, but frustrating users into using OneDrive for storage seems much more likely. I really hate it when companies try this stuff.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-06T21:10:28+00:00

    Same thing when mine switched to the new version. Ridiculous that they remove something so necessary.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-06-05T17:26:47+00:00

    I doubt this is an oversight, MS Teams got the exact same behavior.
    May be an way of promoting OneDrive?

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