Rename an attachment file received by email before saving it

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Posted on by frdrcjrdn

Hi everyone,

I tried to make a flow with Dropbox : "save email attachments to a dropbox folder"

The standard flow is working great but, if I have the same name of the file attached, it is overwriting on the dropbox folder...

Could you please tell me how to remane an attachment file (with the date/time added for example) ?

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Fred

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telu Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi frdrcjrdn,

I think you can use subject+attachmentName or any other name combination as the dropbox file name to resolve the name conflict. Hope it works

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frdrcjrdn 6 on at

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I can't put the object + the attachment name.
It told me (in red) that it is impossible because of the foreaech instruction...

So I put the "subject".pdf and I get my attachment renamed with the email subject plus the PDF extension.
But my problem, now, is when I have two attachments in the email, I get an error with the flow because, of course, there is a problem of overwriting files...

I get stucked !

I even try to put a condition on the content-type of the attachment (equal to ".pdf") but I get an error of the flow...

Did someone has a flow which is working to save only a PDF attachment of an email recevied into a dropbox foler ?

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Fred

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krizz 2 on at

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Hi, same issue here... adding a timestamp to the filename would be a solution, but as far as I now it's not possible for the moment.

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Kris

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v-micsh-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @frdrcjrdn and @krizz,

Please take a look at the thread below, see if the workaround works for your situation:

Modify Dynamic Content Before Use in Flow

If you have any further questions, please post back.

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Dutch77 2 on at

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Hi,

I'm looking for the same solution... i have many bills coming in via email for different properties. In the body of the email it has supply address, and ideally i would like this captured somewhere so i can either name the file this way, or store it in the correct folder commencing with email date YYYY-MM-DD Supply address 1 - Elec

It will save me lots of time... and manual filing of these bills... seriously... if someone could create this archive box for all bills etc, they would be trillionaire...

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h173802 2 on at

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@Dutch77 Did you get a solution? I am trying something similar.

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