The announcement of this upcoming change sparked a wave of discontent among users. Under the new policy, if a user uploaded a photo and placed it in an album, such as ‘Holiday photos,’ OneDrive would deduct the file size from the storage allowance twice – once for the default Gallery upload and then again for the album where the image was stored. If the same image was placed in multiple albums, it would further reduce the available online storage space.
For individuals with extensive photo collections, this change could have had a significant impact, potentially exhausting their storage allocation. Adding to the frustration, Microsoft had recently modified how its free Outlook email service accounted for email attachments and inline images against OneDrive storage quotas.
