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How to save all attachments from multiple emails to folder in Outlook?
As usual, when you receive messages with multiple attachments and you want to save these attachments to a specific folder, you need to save them one by one with some annoying operations. Do you want to get rid of that time-consuming operations and directly save the multiple attachments at once? Please look at the following tutorials.
Several clicks to save all attachments from multiple emails to folder with Kutools for Outlook
Easily save all attachments from multiple selected emails to folder:
With the Detach All attachments utility of Kutools for Excel, you can easily save all attachments from multiple selected emails to specified folder in Outlook as below screenshot showed.
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Save all attachments from multiple emails to folder with VBA code
1. Firstly, you should create a folder for saving the attachments in your computer. The saving path just like the following screenshot shows, Lj is the user name of the computer, and the Attachments is the folder which you should finally create.
2. After creating the folder, press Alt + F11 to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
3. Then click Insert > Module to open the Module window, and then copy and paste the following VBA code to the window.
VBA code for saving attachments
Note: This VBA code will permanently remove the attachment from the email.
4. Go to Outlook Mail section to select the emails with attachments which you want to save the attachments.
5. Return to the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, and click button to run the code.
6. When a prompt box showing up, click Allow to save the attachment. Note: The prompt box’s showing frequencies depend on how many emails you have selected. If you have selected two emails with attachments, the prompt box will show up twice and you need to click Allow twice to finish all savings.
7. After finish all savings, you will see the result as shown in the below screenshots. You can go to find the saved attachments according to the saving path or open the attachment directly by just click on the saving path.
Save all attachments from multiple emails to folder with Kutools for Outlook (just several clicks)
This section will introduce the Detach All utility of Kutools for Outook. With this utility, you can quickly save attachments from multiple emails at once in Outlook.
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1. Get into the email folder and select the multiple emails with attachments in mail list by holding the Ctrl key.
2. Then click Kutools > Detach All. See screenshot:
3. Then a Please select a folder dialog box pops up, please click the Browse button to select a folder to save the detached attachments, check the Create subfolders in he following style box, and then specify a folder style from the drop-down list. Finally click the OK button. See screenshot:
4.In the opening Detach All dialog box, please click the Yes button.
5. Then a Kutools for Outlook dialog box displays to tell you how many attachments are detached successfully, please click the OK button:
If you want to have a free trial of this utility, please go to free download the software first, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.
Demo: Save all attachments from multiple emails to folder with Kutools for Outlook
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- So I click the link 'Kutools for outlook' and I'm directed to a page that is not that, but 'Kutools - Combines More Than 300 Advanced Functions and Tools for Microsoft Excel.'
Nothing about Outlook. Waste of time. - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.This is what the code is at now, and it does save all the attachments, but it only adds text to the first message. Can anyone help me with this?
Public Sub SaveAttachments()
'Update 20170523
Dim objOL As Outlook.Application
Dim objMsg As Outlook.MailItem
Dim objAttachments As Outlook.Attachments
Dim objSelection As Outlook.Selection
Dim I As Long
Dim lngCount As Long
Dim strFile As String
Dim strFolderpath As String
Set objOL = CreateObject('Outlook.Application')
Set objSelection = objOL.ActiveExplorer.Selection
strFolderpath = 'C:UsersbrianpDocumentsAttachments'
For Each objMsg In objSelection
Set objAttachments = objMsg.Attachments
lngCount = objAttachments.Count
'Use this to test MsgBox 'Subject = ' & objMsg.Subject & ' lngCount = ' & objAttachments.Count
If lngCount > 0 Then
For I = lngCount To 1 Step -1
strFile = objAttachments.Item(I).FileName
strFile = strFolderpath & strFile
objAttachments.Item(I).SaveAsFile strFile
Next I
End If
If objMsg.BodyFormat olFormatHTML Then
objMsg.Body = vbCrLf & 'The Attached file(s) were saved to ' & ' & strFile & ' & vbCrLf & objMsg.Body
Else
objMsg.HTMLBody = ' & 'The Attached file(s) were saved to ' & ' & strFile & ' & ' & objMsg.HTMLBody
End If
Next
ExitSub:
Set objAttachments = Nothing
Set objMsg = Nothing
Set objSelection = Nothing
Set objOL = Nothing
End Sub - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I can get this to run but how and the objSelection.Count is 2 but it will only save the attachments on the first email.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thanks! This saved me a lot of time and frustration!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Works great with no problems! Thanks. Saved me a bunch of time!
Thanks,
Josh
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I'm using the PHP SDK for the new Gmail API. How do I fetch an attachment from an email?
Here is the API documentation, but in this instance, it's missing example for PHP. Although I have seen people achieving this with PHP.
EDIT:
This is what I have so far, unsure if it's correct:
4 Answers
Firstly we need to get the data from the attachment object:
Then before writing to file, convert the data to standard RFC 4648 base64-encoding:
It now works!
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Try the code in this thread if it works on you.
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maybe someone else will be searching for the simple solution. Please see below script code that can be used as Google Script (Java Script, see start tutorial here: https://script.google.com/home/start ):
Thanks.