Microsoft Outlook Storage Message - reducing from 15GB to 5GB

Anonymous
2023-02-28T09:15:26+00:00

Hi, starting today a pink bar at the top of my outlook page stating 'From February 1st, you'll need more storage to send or receive emails.' then provides 2 links to 'Manage Storage' & 'Get More Storage'. There is a second window bottom left hand side stating in red font 'Microsoft Storage' '14.6GB used of 5GB (292%)' 'Get More Storage'. What is going on? I've had this account for 10 + years.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-04-20T20:12:36+00:00

    😂😂😂

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-20T18:51:28+00:00

    Yes you have 15GB INCLUDING attachments. That is specifically stated. But somehow there is someone within MicroSoft proposed to also add said attachments toward your onedrive. In any normal company, such an idea would be shot down and the person with that idea would be demoted. In MicroSoft however, this insane notion was accepted to be a swell idea. To say they lost their marbles would be an understatement.

    I have had this emailadress for decades so I do not want to abandon it. So I deleted enormous amounts of mails with attachments and my Onedrive is now below 5GB and my mailbox is 7GB, so yes, you indeed DO seem to have 15GB of emailstorage including attachments, but the attachments alone are not allowed to be over 5GB.

    The following calculation is very flawed, but I am making it anyway for entertainment purposes... My mailbox is 2GB over the 5GB OneDrive limit, so those 2GB are purely mailmessages without attachments. It took me over 25 years to collect those emails. So with the remaining 8GB, I am set to receive another 100 years worth of emails! Why am I even complaining about this GREAT company??? They just want to make sure even the condolances after my passing will still arrive at my emailaddress. Just make sure to send them without attachments...

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-20T17:27:57+00:00

    You're right. Downloaded all my emails, transfdfred to another service. Soon closing email account. Just keeping ked office. Bye microsoft

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-04-20T17:20:36+00:00

    I have just hit the same problem today having had about 7GB of attachements and now being only allowed 5 GB what is even more appalling is that there is no way of deleting attachments from e-mails once you have downloaded them. Sounds very much like Microsoft is desperate to make money. I have had my account for about 16 years but time to say good-bye I think.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-04-07T10:39:06+00:00

    Hello I also don't understand. My account has been cut off. I too just deleted a tonne of emails to bring my sent folder under 5gb. Which I did but now it also says I also have 15gb of free storage. ?? I dont understand I just deleted a tonne of emails that I didn't need to?

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