I have successfully created this flow that goes: When a new e-mail arrives in a shared mail box, for each attachment, create a file in a Sharepoint folder. The problem is, when a new e-mail arrives, the new attachments replaces the old ones from the previous e-mails, even though the file names are completely different. How do I prevent this from happening? I want to keep all files from all e-mails that comes in the mailbox during a period of time that I have this flow activated.
I'm very new to Power Automate. Any help is highly appreciated. Thank you!
It's hard to offer any recommendations without seeing your full flow and the logic behind it. Toggle off the New Designer and click each action to expand it. Upload a screenshot of your flow in edit mode.
Power Automate doesn’t have a download attachment from outlook action. In this Power Automate Video tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the Get Attachment (V2) action in combination with the Create File action to get your email attachments onto SharePoint.
The Create File action will overwrite any files that already exist with the same name. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can append a timestamp to the end of a file name to prevent your file from being overwritten.
I’ll also show you how to set up your flow so that you can trigger it manually while building it so you don’t need to wait for an email to arrive. At the end of the video I’ll show you how adding trigger conditions to your flow can prevent it from triggering if certain conditions aren’t met. Although the final flow uses the When a new email arrives in a shared mailbox (V2) trigger, you can use any of the When a new email arrives triggers for your flow. Adjust this flow to suit your needs!
IN THIS VIDEO:
✅ How to Automate Downloading and Uploading Email Attachments to SharePoint
✅ How to Use a the Get Email (V2) action
✅ How to Use the Get Attachment (V2) action
✅ How to Create Attachment Files using the Create File Action
✅ How to Prevent the Create File Action from Overwriting a File
✅ How to use Split the Filename from its Extension
✅ How to Append a Timestamp to a File Name
✅ How to use the When a New Email Arrives in a Shared Mailbox (V2) trigger
✅ How to use the Convert Time Zone action
✅ How to add Trigger Conditions to your Flow
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