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Lessred
2 Oct 2024
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    Lessred
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    2 Oct 2024, 3:35 p.m. 2 Oct 2024, 3:35 p.m.
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    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?

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    JimShady
    Squad 3846 posts
    2 Oct 2024, 3:43 p.m. 2 Oct 2024, 3:43 p.m.
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    @Lessred has written:

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

    What the literal fuck.

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    Lessred
    Squad 2062 posts
    2 Oct 2024, 4:47 p.m. 2 Oct 2024, 4:47 p.m.
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    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.

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    tricky
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    2 Oct 2024, 4:56 p.m. 2 Oct 2024, 4:56 p.m.
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    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.

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    JimShady
    Squad 3846 posts
    2 Oct 2024, 5:20 p.m. 2 Oct 2024, 5:20 p.m.
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    @tricky has written:

    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.

    ^

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    Lessred
    Squad 2062 posts
    2 Oct 2024, 7:25 p.m. 2 Oct 2024, 7:25 p.m.
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    Thanks both, I will get that done tomorrow

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    Sean
    Squad 2031 posts
    2 Oct 2024, 7:40 p.m. 2 Oct 2024, 7:40 p.m.
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    @JimShady has written:
    @Lessred has written:

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

    What the literal fuck.

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    Guru
    Squad 1361 posts
    3 Oct 2024, 7:36 a.m. 3 Oct 2024, 7:36 a.m.
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    @Lessred has written:

    Thanks both, I will get that done tomorrow

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

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    Lessred
    Squad 2062 posts
    3 Oct 2024, 8:29 a.m. 3 Oct 2024, 8:29 a.m.
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    The person I have got doing it is one of the slowest...

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    Psychobel
    Squad 902 posts
    3 Oct 2024, 5:25 p.m. 3 Oct 2024, 5:25 p.m.
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    Whats the nature of the attachements? Invoices?

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    Russ
    Squad 6401 posts
    3 Oct 2024, 5:28 p.m. 3 Oct 2024, 5:28 p.m.
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    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:".

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    jamesob
    Squad 1603 posts
    3 Oct 2024, 5:33 p.m. 3 Oct 2024, 5:33 p.m.
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    @Psychobel has written:

    Whats the nature of the attachements? Invoices?

    Literal fucks?

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    Lessred
    Squad 2062 posts
    3 Oct 2024, 5:41 p.m. 3 Oct 2024, 5:41 p.m.
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    @Psychobel has written:

    Whats the nature of the attachements? Invoices?

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

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

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    Psychobel
    Squad 902 posts
    3 Oct 2024, 5:55 p.m. 3 Oct 2024, 5:55 p.m.
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    Shit like this might be useful openecx.com/

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    Thorners
    Squad 55 posts
    3 Oct 2024, 9:57 p.m. 3 Oct 2024, 9:57 p.m.
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    Is Morgan in the England squad?

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    Dave_Rave
    Squad 2975 posts
    3 Oct 2024, 10:15 p.m. 3 Oct 2024, 10:15 p.m.
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    I think the outlook is bright for him.

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    Sean
    Squad 2031 posts
    4 Oct 2024, 1:13 p.m. 4 Oct 2024, 1:13 p.m.
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    I wonder how he'll fare with multiple 'Congratulations on your Englnd selection' e-cards sent as email attachments.

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