Frustrated with MSFT email storage

[b2bailey]

I have an old Hotmail account I use as my secondary email address.
For awhile now there has been a message at top of page telling me I'm running out of storage.
MSFT wants me to purchase monthly storage space. I don't want to do that.
Recently the storage space used has increased -- for no understandable reason.
I'm being threatened that I won't be able to send or receive email.
Today I deleted hundreds of old messages with no impact on percent of storage used.

Anyone else have similar experience?

 

[callwill]

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Hotmail accounts, now called Outlook.com accounts, have 15 GB of free email storage. This storage is separate from the 5 GB of free cloud storage that comes with a Microsoft account. (Microsoft 365 subscribers get 100 GB of storage)

How to check storage usage

Sign in to Outlook.com
Select the gear icon in the top right corner
Click View all Outlook settings
Click Storage

How to free up space

Delete old emails, attachments, and other large files
Empty the Junk Email folder
Permanently delete emails by selecting them and pressing Shift + DEL

How to increase storage

Subscribe to Microsoft 365, which includes increased OneDrive storage

What happens when storage is full
If your mailbox is almost full, you'll receive emails and in-app messages. If you exceed the capacity, you won't be able to send or receive messages

 

[Chrispee]

Deleting hundreds of old emails doesn't do much as text emails take up very little storage space... what you need to do is delete a few large attachment emails. If you're using Hotmail browser-based, you should see "By Date" in the top right area of your inbox (indicating that you're sorting your list of emails by date received). Click on "By Date" once to open up the menu and go down to "Size" so that your emails are being sorted by how much memory they're taking up. Go down the list and delete any emails that you no longer need. Even just deleting 20-30 of these should make a huge difference.