• Lessredpanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    Help greatly appreciated

    We have a client who has sent us 159 emails all with between 3 and 10 attachments.

    I would like to get the attachments off the emails and into a folder, but don't want to have to go through each one and do it.

    Is there a way to do this automatically? Looking on line it tells me to use VBA - that is a bit above my ability (OK, way above my ability)

    Does anyone know of a piece of software that can do this?

  • 6 months ago

    What the literal fuck.

  • Lessredpanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    He just forwarded on all the ones he has been sent from his subbies over the last year.

    I am charging him by the hour, so it's his problem really.

  • trickylens
    6 months ago

    Not being evasive...but depends on the email client, whether the emails are saved locally, or on the server and accessed using imap, what storage format is, and how the attachments are encoded. Then what the client/server operating systems are, and what level of access you have.

    TL;DR

    Go into individual emails, click on one attachment, and right click "save all attachments". You'll be done before you can work out what else to do.

  • 6 months ago

    ^

  • Lessredpanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    Thanks both, I will get that done tomorrow

  • Seanpanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    ^

  • Gurupanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    But if you are being paid by the hour, do it meticulously

  • Lessredpanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    The person I have got doing it is one of the slowest...

  • Psychobelpanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    Whats the nature of the attachements? Invoices?

  • Russpanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    This feels like something that MSFT's embedded AI agent could be instructed to do fairly simply i.e. "save every attachment in emails from Joe Bloggs received in the last 48 hours to a new folder called Bloggs Invoices on G:".

  • jamesobhelp_outline
    6 months ago

    Literal fucks?

  • Lessredpanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    They are photos and pdfs of receipts, all in different formats.

    We're about half way through now, hope he enjoys his bill

  • Psychobelpanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago
  • Thornerspanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    Is Morgan in the England squad?

  • Dave_Ravepanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    I think the outlook is bright for him.

  • Seanpanorama_fish_eye
    6 months ago

    I wonder how he'll fare with multiple 'Congratulations on your Englnd selection' e-cards sent as email attachments.

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