I have a macro that saves all attachments from a specified Inbox folder to a
specified folder on my hard drive. It has a counter that tells me how many
attachments it found and copied. I've found that it is overwriting the copied
attachments on the hard drive when the attachment file name is already there
(duplicated). This is fine, but, how do I have it count and display the
duplicates (or number of overwrites)? This is what I have:


Sub GetAttachments()
' This Outlook macro checks a the Outlook Inbox for messages
' with attached files (of any type) and saves them to disk.
' NOTE: make sure the specified save folder exists before
' running the macro.
On Error GoTo GetAttachments_err
' Declare variables
Dim ns As NameSpace
Dim Inbox As MAPIFolder
Dim Item As Object
Dim Atmt As Attachment
Dim FileName As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Set ns = GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Inbox = ns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set SubFolder = Inbox.Folders("NYC")
i = 0
' Check Inbox for messages and exit if none found
If SubFolder.Items.Count = 0 Then
MsgBox "There are no messages in the SubFolder.", vbInformation, _
"Nothing Found"
Exit Sub
End If
' Check each message for attachments
For Each Item In SubFolder.Items
' Save any attachments found
For Each Atmt In Item.Attachments
' This path must exist! Change folder name as necessary.
FileName = "C:\NYC\" & Atmt.FileName
Atmt.SaveAsFile FileName
i = i + 1
Next Atmt
Next Item
' Show summary message
If i 0 Then
MsgBox "I found " & i & " attached files." _
& vbCrLf & "I have saved them into the C:\NYC folder." _
& vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Have a nice day.", vbInformation, "Finished!"
Else
MsgBox "I didn't find any attached files in your mail.",
vbInformation, "Finished!"
End If
' Clear memory
GetAttachments_exit:
Set Atmt = Nothing
Set Item = Nothing
Set ns = Nothing
Exit Sub
' Handle errors
GetAttachments_err:
MsgBox "An unexpected error has occurred." _
& vbCrLf & "Please note and report the following information." _
& vbCrLf & "Macro Name: GetAttachments" _
& vbCrLf & "Error Number: " & Err.Number _
& vbCrLf & "Error Description: " & Err.Description _
, vbCritical, "Error!"
Resume GetAttachments_exit
End Sub

With the Dir function you can check if a filename already exists before
saving the attachment.

--
Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
-- www.VBOffice.net --


Am Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:50:01 -0800 schrieb Nate Baker:

I have a macro that saves all attachments from a specified Inbox folder to
a
specified folder on my hard drive. It has a counter that tells me how many
attachments it found and copied. I've found that it is overwriting the
copied
attachments on the hard drive when the attachment file name is already
there
(duplicated). This is fine, but, how do I have it count and display the
duplicates (or number of overwrites)? This is what I have:


Sub GetAttachments()
' This Outlook macro checks a the Outlook Inbox for messages
' with attached files (of any type) and saves them to disk.
' NOTE: make sure the specified save folder exists before
' running the macro.
On Error GoTo GetAttachments_err
' Declare variables
Dim ns As NameSpace
Dim Inbox As MAPIFolder
Dim Item As Object
Dim Atmt As Attachment
Dim FileName As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Set ns = GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Inbox = ns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set SubFolder = Inbox.Folders("NYC")
i = 0
' Check Inbox for messages and exit if none found
If SubFolder.Items.Count = 0 Then
MsgBox "There are no messages in the SubFolder.", vbInformation, _
"Nothing Found"
Exit Sub
End If
' Check each message for attachments
For Each Item In SubFolder.Items
' Save any attachments found
For Each Atmt In Item.Attachments
' This path must exist! Change folder name as necessary.
FileName = "C:\NYC\" & Atmt.FileName
Atmt.SaveAsFile FileName
i = i + 1
Next Atmt
Next Item
' Show summary message
If i 0 Then
MsgBox "I found " & i & " attached files." _
& vbCrLf & "I have saved them into the C:\NYC folder." _
& vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Have a nice day.", vbInformation, "Finished!"
Else
MsgBox "I didn't find any attached files in your mail.",
vbInformation, "Finished!"
End If
' Clear memory
GetAttachments_exit:
Set Atmt = Nothing
Set Item = Nothing
Set ns = Nothing
Exit Sub
' Handle errors
GetAttachments_err:
MsgBox "An unexpected error has occurred." _
& vbCrLf & "Please note and report the following information." _
& vbCrLf & "Macro Name: GetAttachments" _
& vbCrLf & "Error Number: " & Err.Number _
& vbCrLf & "Error Description: " & Err.Description _
, vbCritical, "Error!"
Resume GetAttachments_exit
End Sub