Onedrive Windows 10 help plz

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  1. sadbrewer

    sadbrewer Well-Known Member

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    I've just got this message coming up when I use Hotmail.
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    On investigating further this comes up...mostly dated 4/24/2024...I thought I had turned Onedrive off some years before, but it has started adding them without my knowledge.
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    On clicking the pink bar, it shows all my emails going back several years.
    Are these just backups on the Cloud that I can delete or do I need to cut and paste them somewhere else to get back below 5 Gig...if so where do I put them, and how do I stop it happening again...all whilst saving my old emails?
    Any help will be appreciated.
     
    sadbrewer, Mar 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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    Should be just backups, I've just had a similar thing happen to me. Unlinked my pc from one drive and deleted everything from one drive that I didn't need backing up
     
    kektyke, Mar 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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    Thanks for that, I'm worried about losing the emails though, are you certain they are just backups?
    Where would I look on the PC to find the originals?
     
    sadbrewer, Mar 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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    What email app do you use? Hotmail and Gmail are all cloud based anyway and usually only retain for limited time
     
    kektyke, Mar 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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    I use hotmail.com, but I can go back well over 10 years and still find things.
     
    sadbrewer, Mar 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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    Those .apk files are android applications. Presumably from some mobile phone you have had in the past that's backed them up to there. I'd guess you can delete them all.

    I believe emails don't get stored in your OneDrive quota, only the attachments to them which will be in a separate attachments folder, so you are safe to delete the files without worrying about emails.
     
    Gally, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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