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So I'm struggling with this issue, I am using the Retrieve email messages from Outlook action for All emails with Subject "ApprovalsTest" and save the attachments into a certain folder. So say there are 3 emails with attachments, they all get saved into the folder just from that one action, but now I have no way of iterating through my emails and moving them to an In Progress folder because I can't match the file saved to the email it came from. This is a snippet of a code and I hope it makes sense of what I am trying to do

How can I extract and save attachments one by one or rework my code to make this method work please. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you :)

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Hi,

Retrieve Emails

Action: Retrieve email messages from Outlook

Filter: Subject = "ApprovalsTest"

Retrieve: Only unread or all (your choice)

Store output in variable: %RetrievedEmails%

For Each Email

Action: For Each

Value to iterate: %RetrievedEmails%

Current Item: %CurrentEmail

If Attachments Exist

Action: If

Condition: CurrentEmail.Attachments.Count > 0

For Each Attachment

Action: For Each

Value to iterate: %CurrentEmail.Attachments%

Current Item: %CurrentAttachment%

Save Attachment to Folder

Action: Save email attachment

Attachment: %CurrentAttachment%

Destination folder: "C:\YourFolder\" (adjust as needed)

Move Email to In Progress

Action: Move email message

Email: %CurrentEmail%

Destination folder: "In Progress"

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Thank you for the response, I presume thats the AI response from ChatGPT or CoPilot as sadly there is no Save Email Attachment action

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So I figured out the way to do this! So I did as before with Retrieve email messages from Outlook and saving all the attachments to the folder, but then to match each file in the folder, I matched it against the CurrentEmail.Attachment, the screenshot below will make more sense, so now it only pulls the file that is in the CurrentEmail

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