Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected.
(www.windowslatest.com)
Don't think it's just an Outlook thing, same thing happened to me in the file explorer. Weird thing is I opened another explorer window and that worked fine, while at the same time the other window was still unresponsive.
Just windows 11 failing at windows sometimes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯