Outlook 2000
Is there a simple way to select multiple emails (in the list pane) and
delete their attachments all at once. Currently I have to open each
email, to delete attachments.

Similarly, something that lets you select multiple emails and save
their attachments to a single destination (all at once).

I would even settle for a tool bar button/macro that will delete/save
the attachment(s) of the currently selected email (w/o actually
opening the email).

livetohike wrote:

Outlook 2000
Is there a simple way to select multiple emails (in the list pane) and
delete their attachments all at once. Currently I have to open each
email, to delete attachments.

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.asp
--
Brian Tillman

Is there a simple way to select multiple emails (in the list pane) and
delete their attachments all at once. Currently I have to open each
email, to delete attachments.

I learnedr here that when you delete an e-mail, the attachemtnes are
automatically deleted from the PST file

Regards

Bangali

On May 22, 10:11 pm, "Brian Tillman" wrote:
wrote:
Outlook 2000
Is there a simple way to select multiple emails (in the list pane) and
delete their attachments all at once. Currently I have to open each
email, to delete attachments.

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.asp
--
Brian Tillman

Thanks Brian. I took a look and those products seemed like overkill,
and of course I am looking for a 'free' solution. Just to make sure
everyone is clear on what I was asking:

I want to delete the attachment from an email and save the textual
part of the email and I want to do it w/o having to open the email
(i.e. from list view). Is there a Macro I can run that will delete
all the attachments to the currently selected email (ie being viewed
in the preview pane, but not 'open").

Hi LiveToHike:

Don't you feel like banging your head against the keyboard sometimes? Your
questions were clear enough but your one responder in particular was just not
getting it! (Or didn't feel especially cooperative.)

I wish I had a Step 1, Step 2 answer but I don't. There are a couple of
ideas listed he
http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2....256DCA00182C41 (one of the ideas is the slipstick site, though!)

I have Outlook 2003 and tried dragging the attachment (with just the mouse,
then with CTRL and then with the ALT key held down) and although the
attachment moved into a different folder the original remained intact on the
Inbox msg. (I know - you wanted to delete the darn thing anyway!) So, maybe
you'll have to go with a plug-in after all. Good luck!



--
JudyTheBeautyOnDuty


"livetohike" wrote:

Outlook 2000
Is there a simple way to select multiple emails (in the list pane) and
delete their attachments all at once. Currently I have to open each
email, to delete attachments.

Similarly, something that lets you select multiple emails and save
their attachments to a single destination (all at once).

I would even settle for a tool bar button/macro that will delete/save
the attachment(s) of the currently selected email (w/o actually
opening the email).

On Jun 12, 4:26 pm, Judy .(donotspam)
wrote:
HiLiveToHike:

Don't you feel like banging your head against the keyboard sometimes? Your
questions were clear enough but your one responder in particular was just not
getting it! (Or didn't feel especially cooperative.)

I wish I had a Step 1, Step 2 answer but I don't. There are a couple of
ideas listed hehttp://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2....476CA25...(one of the ideas is the slipstick site, though!)

I have Outlook 2003 and tried dragging the attachment (with just the mouse,
then with CTRL and then with the ALT key held down) and although the
attachment moved into a different folder the original remained intact on the
Inbox msg. (I know - you wanted to delete the darn thing anyway!) So, maybe
you'll have to go with a plug-in after all. Good luck!

--
JudyTheBeautyOnDuty

"livetohike" wrote:
Outlook 2000
Is there a simple way to select multiple emails (in the list pane) and
delete their attachments all at once. Currently I have to open each
email, to delete attachments.

Similarly, something that lets you select multiple emails and save
their attachments to a single destination (all at once).

I would even settle for a tool bar button/macro that will delete/save
the attachment(s) of the currently selected email (w/o actually
opening the email).

Thank, but no cigar. The many SlipStick add-ins work on folders or
all incoming email. They save the attachment to disk and leave a link
in the original email.

What I probably should have done is describe exactly what I am doing,
here goes:
I send many, many emails w/ attachments. Obviously I have the
original file I attached to the email save on my system, so I don't
need to keep it inside all emails in the sent folder. I don't like
bulk processing because there may be an occasional case where I do
want to leave the attachment in place. That's it! Could not be any
simpler.

livetohike wrote:

Thank, but no cigar. The many SlipStick add-ins work on folders or
all incoming email. They save the attachment to disk and leave a link
in the original email.

What I probably should have done is describe exactly what I am doing,
here goes:
I send many, many emails w/ attachments. Obviously I have the
original file I attached to the email save on my system, so I don't
need to keep it inside all emails in the sent folder. I don't like
bulk processing because there may be an occasional case where I do
want to leave the attachment in place. That's it! Could not be any
simpler.

Well, if you want to keep attachments for some messages but not for others
and don't want to use any bulk processors, then what choice have you other
than removing manually the attachments you don't want?
--
Brian Tillman

On Jun 13, 10:21 pm, "Brian Tillman" wrote:
livetohike wrote:
Thank, but no cigar. The many SlipStick add-ins work on folders or
all incoming email. They save the attachment to disk and leave a link
in the original email.

What I probably should have done is describe exactly what I am doing,
here goes:
I send many, many emails w/ attachments. Obviously I have the
original file I attached to the email save on my system, so I don't
need to keep it inside all emails in the sent folder. I don't like
bulk processing because there may be an occasional case where I do
want to leave the attachment in place. That's it! Could not be any
simpler.

Well, if you want to keep attachments for some messages but not for others
and don't want to use any bulk processors, then what choice have you other
than removing manually the attachments you don't want?
--
Brian Tillman

Buld processing is OK, but only on selected emails, NOT on entire
folders.

If I had the skill to write an add-in I would put a button on the tool
bar that will delete attachments from any emails you have selected in
the list pain (using CTRL-Clk). The key is to not have to open the
email because that is too slow a process.

I did find "Outlook Attachment Remover Add-in" that is pretty close.
It puts a button on the tool bar, that opens a dialog allowing you to
act on a folder OR the selected files. You can choose to remove the
attachments, but also makes a copy ("moves") the attachment to a
specified folder AND puts a link to the moved attachment in the email.

I don't need the copy of the attachment, but can write a bat to empty
file folder. I don't like the way it sticks a link at the top of
email, but I would have to live w/ that. The worst problem is that
everything works EXCEPT the removal of the attachment. I wrote
support, we will see. Here is the link if anyone wants to try it:
http://www.kopf.com.br/outlook/
Thanks

Brian,
Our IT dept. would go bananas if anyone downloaded any utility file from the
Internet and installed it on a company computer on our network where it could
potentially muck around within Outlook in unknown ways. How do we know any
such utility does not contain data-mining spyware? For that matter (please
don't take personal offense; none is intended) how do we know whether Brian
Tillman is just a real, nice person trying to be helpful, or an alias being
used by some not so nice person who is involved in phishing/spyware and is
posting these comments to entice potential victims? Also, (no offense
intended toward www.slipstick.com), what do we really know about
www.slipstick.com? Who are they, and how do we find out if they are what they
claim on their website? Unfortunately, people need to be very cautious these
days. Where does one go for reliable, definitive answers to these questions?
I think this is a valid point to make, here

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

livetohike wrote:

Outlook 2000
Is there a simple way to select multiple emails (in the list pane) and
delete their attachments all at once. Currently I have to open each
email, to delete attachments.

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.asp
--
Brian Tillman

"Bob W" wrote in message
...

Also, (no offense intended toward www.slipstick.com), what do we really
know about
www.slipstick.com? Who are they, and how do we find out if they are what
they
claim on their website?

http://www.slipstick.com/slipstick.htm

Sue Mosher is a respected MVP.....