How to Bulk Export Outlook Email File Attachments in Windows

Our Outlook email messages contain lots of valuable information, often in the form of attached documents, photos, PDF's, text files, and anything else that people want to share by email.  This is especially true in a business environment where important files are often sent through email.  The email spigot never seems to end, however, and sometimes it would be convenient to just copy all of the attachments and save them outside of Microsoft Outlook to a folder, where we can more easily browse, sort and access the files. Unfortunately, Outlook doesn't provide a bulk file extraction capability.

MessageExport add-in by Encryptomatic LLC adds the ability to bulk export email file attachments to Microsoft Outlook, making it easily accessible in Outlook's toolbar.  

Download a 15 day free trial of MessageExport and follow along with us.

Selecting Outlook Email Messages

MessageExport inserts itself into the Outlook toolbar. It is active after you select one or more email messages in the mail list, or if you select a folder of messages.  You can select any number of Outlook email messages.  To choose them all, type Ctrol-A, or just click on the folder containing all the messages. 

This photo shows three messages highlighted messages in Outlook.  Depending on the Outlook UI you have selected, you may see something a little different in your Outlook.  To select just a few messages as I have, hold down the Control key and click on the specific messages to select them.

Bulk Exporting Outlook File Attachments

After you have selected one or more emails,  you can use the MessageExport toolbar in Outlook to convert them, or perform one of the many operations that will now be available to you.  Today, we will just process file attachments in the email messages, saving a copy of them to a folder on our desktop.

 

The MessageExport functions live in the main Outlook toolbar.  The next step is to choose the export profile you want to run. In this case we will choose "Export Attachments Only."  Click the blue "Export" button, and MessageExport will prompt you for a location to store the file attachments.

That's it! 

Whether you choose just a few emails or hundreds (even thousands), MessageExport will copy all file attachments and save them to your local drive.  To be clear: MessageExport will not remove the attachments from your emails, but a copy of the file attachments will be stored to your local drive.

If you have any questions, please post them there, or contact the MessageExport support team!

MessageExport: An Outlook Add-in to Export Email to PDF

 

MessageExport in an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that is designed for Outlook power users: people who spend hours each day processing or responding to emails. Perhaps they manage a legal office, or process inbound leads for the sales team.  These people are well aware of Outlook's serious limitations when it comes to exporting or converting email messages.

Allowing for automation, bulk or individual Outlook email exports, MessageExport brings important efficiencies to the Outlook toolbar. This video from the MessageExport support team demonstrates how easy it is to convert Outlook emails into PDF documents.  

We acknowledge that many people will be served just fine by a PDF printer app that will save Outlook print output to a PDF file. Instead, we designed  MessageExport based on user feedback, specifically for people with deeper email processing needs.  They need to convert not only emails, but file attachments.  Perhaps file attachments should be converted into the PDF image, or perhaps the files should be embedded into the PDF file, or perhaps attachments should be extracted to the hard drive.  And perhaps these PDF files need a special file name that draws on email meta data.  

PDF printers can't do this.  But MessageExport can.

MessageExport is for Outlook power users who may want to build their own export profiles, performing several custom actions in one operation. 

For a free trial of MessageExport, visit the product home page.  If you have any questions, post them here or use Live Chat to talk with a support person.

MessageExport Extends the Email Export Abilities of Microsoft Office Outlook, and It's Free to Try.

MessageExport by Encryptomatic LLC is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook. It extends the email export capabilities of Microsoft Outlook, enabling you to save Outlook emails to many different formats, in many different ways.  Save emails to PDF documents, PNG or GIF files,  or even to other email formats like EML or MBOX.  You can save emails as a HTML web page, or send them to a printer. 

There are so many ways you can process and convert emails right inside of Outlook that it can be difficult to explain all of the different ways you can use it to efficiently work with emails.

MessageExport comes with many useful export profiles to perform common export tasks.  But it is also easy to create your own export profiles to do more complex and tedious tasks, and they can run automatically. 

Think of MessageExport as an Outlook email toolkit. You can combine the tools in MessageExport in an unlimited number of ways.  For example, say you want to save all emails from bob@company.com to a shared project folder.  There's several steps you could combine using Outlook's rules and MessageExport to make this happen in the manner that you need.  You could have Outlook Rules copy all emails from bob@company.com to a designated Outlook folder.  Then, create a MessageExport "export profile" that automatically monitors this designated Outlook folder every 15 minutes (or however many minutes you want); when a new email is found, MessageExport can perform a series of events, such as converting the email and its file attachments into a PDF document, giving the PDF document a special name using metadata from the email, then copying the pdf document to a hard drive folder.

MessageExport exports individual emails, bulk selected email messages, and even Outlook folders.

If you have been struggling to automate tedious Outlook tasks, try the full capabilities of MessageExport free for 15 days.  Contact our support team using the live chat button with any questions you have.  

Following the free trial, leave it installed! You can still use it to convert individual emails to PDF.

Learn more about MessageExport from the author's website.