Solved: Automate Saving Message Attachments

I use win2000 with Office 2000 at work I am new to VBA in outlook but, have a some VB knowledge and have mostly worked with VBA in excel. I receive E-mail messages with an excel sheet attached and have created a rule wizard to place them automatically in a sub folder called (Weekly asking) which is located in a folder named (Overtime Info) in the outlook folder the sheets I receive each week have different revisions ex; wkasking.060704.rev1.xls I clean these out and back up to the local PC hard drive since my outlook pst file is on the server and my space is limited. I would like to create a procedure to automate this. I currently right click and do a save as, I would like to be able to select all the files at one time in the Weekly asking folder and click the macro button and have all the attachments from each message saved to c:\my documents\xl\wk asking folder I wrote a little code from the help file examples but the message had to be opened before I ran the procedure and I could only do one message at a time It would be just as easy to do right click & SaveAs. Also how is the code written for folder objects that are in sub folders? Any help or ideas would be appreciated THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Blatantly stolen:


[vba]
Option Explicit
Private Const MAX_PATH = 255

Private Declare Function GetTempPath Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTempPathA" (ByVal nBufferLength As Long, ByVal lpBuffer As String) As Long

'_____________________

Public Function SaveAttachments(Optional PathName As String) As Boolean

Dim oOutlook As Outlook.Application
Dim oNs As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim oFldr As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim oMessage As Object
Dim sPathName As String
Dim oAttachment As Outlook.Attachment
Dim iCtr As Integer
Dim iAttachCnt As Integer

On Error GoTo ErrHandler

If PathName = "" Then
sPathName = GetTempDir
Else
sPathName = PathName
End If

If Right(sPathName, 1) <> "\" Then sPathName = sPathName & "\"
If Dir(sPathName, vbDirectory) = "" Then Exit Function

Set oOutlook = New Outlook.Application
Set oNs = oOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set oFldr = oNs.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
For Each oMessage In oFldr.Items
With oMessage.Attachments
iAttachCnt = .Count
If iAttachCnt > 0 Then
For iCtr = 1 To iAttachCnt
.Item(iCtr).SaveAsFile sPathName _
& .Item(iCtr).FileName
Next iCtr
End If
End With
DoEvents

Next oMessage
SaveAttachments = True

ErrHandler:
Set oMessage = Nothing
Set oFldr = Nothing
Set oNs = Nothing
Set oOutlook = Nothing
End Function
'______________

Public Function GetTempDir() As String
Dim sRet As String, lngLen As Long
'create buffer
sRet = String(MAX_PATH, 0)
lngLen = GetTempPath(MAX_PATH, sRet)
If lngLen = 0 Then Err.Raise Err.LastDllError
GetTempDir = Left$(sRet, lngLen)
End Function
[/vba]

I hope YOU know what to do with it. :)

Len,
If you already have code and just need a way to iterate through all the messages, use this section of the sample Dreamboat posted:

[vba]
For Each oMessage In oFldr.Items
With oMessage.Attachments
iAttachCnt = .Count
If iAttachCnt > 0 Then
For iCtr = 1 To iAttachCnt
.Item(iCtr).SaveAsFile sPathName _
& .Item(iCtr).FileName
Next iCtr
End If
End With
DoEvents

Next oMessage
SaveAttachments = True
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You will need to set you oFldr tp your "Overtime\Weekly Asking" folder, and the sPathName to the "c:\my documents\xl\wk" path.

Let us know if you need more help putting it all together. If so, post the code you've already written and I'm sure we can get it working like you want.

Cheers,
James