Windows 10: Why is my Mail storage so high? 35GB?

I'm cleaning up my Surface Pro 4 due to storage getting high. I noticed that my Mail storage is at 35GB. I don't know why it would be this much. I do not even use my Windows email account. I do use Outlook 2013 for work. Outlook shows my mailbox size to be about 4.8GB. Does Mail storage include Outlook accounts as well? The only other email I use is Gmail, but I check that in my browser.


Any insight how I can clean up my mail storage?




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Mail app will not open on 10041.


Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hey Shawn,
I did that to no avail, then I ran WSReset.exe; now I'm good on all 3, Mail, Calendar and People! *Confused
Go figure!

Store Cache - Clear in Windows 8

 

Error in Storage workspace

Hi Joe,

The other files related to the Mail app are possibly hidden that is why it is still taking up 4GB of storage. To check if there are still hidden files related to the Mail app, we recommend that you follow the steps below:

• Press Windows key + E to open File Explorer.
• Follow this file path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\
• Select microsoft.windowscommunicationsappsand go to this file path:
  \LocalState\Indexed\LiveComm.
  
• Open the Mail folder and see if you can still see .EML files hiding in that folder.

Get back to us if the storage space will not reduce after performing these steps.