Copy email attachment to OneDrive, add link to the attachment and delete attachment from email

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I want to copy email attachment to OneDrive, add link to the attachment in the email and delete attachment from email.

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melim Microsoft Employee on at

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Here is a template that saves Office 365 Outlook attachments to OneDrive for Business: Save Office 365 email attachments to OneDrive for Business.

You an extend this template to take the link from OneDrive For Business and store it somewhere, like a Sharepoint list. Unfortunately there is no way to edit an email with our Outlook connector.

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Shailu 4 on at

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Hello,

I was hoping I can shink may mailbox like that - but sadly I undersatnd I can't.
Thanks for the answer.

Shay

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melim Microsoft Employee on at

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If you want to shrink your mailbox, you can delete the email with the Outlook connector. But there is not a way to delete the attachment and keep the email.

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MageshP 16 on at

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I'm looking for solution to this topic. Has anything changed since it's been 4 years?

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Tony_Armstrong 2 on at

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The only way I thinks this can be done, it's to forward the email to your inbox without attachments and delete the original

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CCSchreiber 2 on at

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You can create a macro with VBA so with one click it saves the email attachment(s) to a folder you choose, deletes the original attachments from the email (but not the email message), and adds a hyperlink to find the attachment right to the original email which remains in your Outlook. I've got it working pretty good, except if I run the macro on multiple emails it adds the hyperlink list of ALL removed attachments to ALL emails. I need it to only list the attachments deleted from each email.

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eldo 2 on at

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Using the Microsoft Graph API ,
I did created a Module , which reads the emails on the Office 365 email boxes ( Specific folders )
and to upload the attachments to One drive Folder + and to remove the same from the Mails (Delete) after attaching link to every specific file into the email body (
because of the huge attachments are replaced with few bytes of link , Mail box size will be freed up drastically so as no requirements to delete or archive mails
Effectively the mailbox capacity is extended with Huge sized Onedrive space -

The users dos not have any inconvenience in opening attachments , they get mails processed faster , feels better

All Uses standard functions and process
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ML-05020844-0 2 on at

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@eldo would it be possible to share the source of your application. We also would like to save email's attachement to a Onedrive/folder and in the mail, replace the attachement by a link to the location where it was saved.

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