MS Outlook / Onedrive cloud storage changes
Discussion
Has anyone come across this yet? Microsoft have apparently just changed the way Outlook and Onedrive cloud storage is counted.
They still say free accounts have 15gb of email storage including attachments, but from this month on they are also counting the email attachments towards the Onedrive storage limit, which is 5gb for a free account. So the advertised 15gb of free email storage is effectively useless if you have much in the way of attachments.
The first I learnt of the change was a notification in my outlook webmail this morning telling me I'm over the onedrive storage limit and will need more storage to continue sending and receiving emails (and of course directing me to options to purchase more).
This all seems like quite a dishonest scummy move to me, which makes me not want to give them money out of principle.
I only really use onedrive for convenience of accessing some documents etc on different computers, my main backups (photos etc) are on external hard drive. So I could use another service like google drive for a copy of those files if needed, and clear out the onedrive to leave space for email attachments.
I guess I could try archiving older emails too - its an email account I've had for probably 20+ years, so fair to say there is a lot of old junk in there.
Any other good ideas for free solutions?
They still say free accounts have 15gb of email storage including attachments, but from this month on they are also counting the email attachments towards the Onedrive storage limit, which is 5gb for a free account. So the advertised 15gb of free email storage is effectively useless if you have much in the way of attachments.
The first I learnt of the change was a notification in my outlook webmail this morning telling me I'm over the onedrive storage limit and will need more storage to continue sending and receiving emails (and of course directing me to options to purchase more).
This all seems like quite a dishonest scummy move to me, which makes me not want to give them money out of principle.
I only really use onedrive for convenience of accessing some documents etc on different computers, my main backups (photos etc) are on external hard drive. So I could use another service like google drive for a copy of those files if needed, and clear out the onedrive to leave space for email attachments.
I guess I could try archiving older emails too - its an email account I've had for probably 20+ years, so fair to say there is a lot of old junk in there.
Any other good ideas for free solutions?
Edited by GravelBen on Tuesday 28th February 05:13
It's just as confusing for paying subscribers. I have M365 Family (which I just renewed at £60 per year - for up to six users) and my quota was 1Tb per account of storage and 50Gb mailbox. It seems the mailbox will creep into my 1Tb from what they say.
But this is still cracking value for me.
Long-term storage could be on something with RAID at home or on Amazon Glacier.
If it's free and disappears, you'll be sad.
But this is still cracking value for me.
Long-term storage could be on something with RAID at home or on Amazon Glacier.
If it's free and disappears, you'll be sad.
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