Outlook - Removing attachment from incoming email

Asked By sanjay

03-Feb-10 12:41 AM

Removing attachment from email , does this attachment occupy space on
computer? To free the space , Do we have to take  some action , similar to

03-Feb-10 01:55 AM

Just where did you think that attachment was?  Floating out in cyber
etherspace somewhere?  Look at the Size column for the e-mail.


If you saved the attachment or do not want it: Open the message, Edit -> Edit
Message, right-click on the attachment and Remove.

03-Feb-10 04:35 AM

With the help of Attachments Processor for Outlook
you can remove attachments from the incoming messages or extract and save
them to your hard disk.

http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/attachments_processor/

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Nick Kharchenko, MAPILab Ltd.
Software for Microsoft Exchange and Outlook

04-Feb-10 05:35 AM

I was not asking.  You replied to the wrong post in this thread.

Mapilab's add-on costs $39.  There is a free attachment save add-on at
http://www.kopf.com.br/outlook/.  Although it is an add-on, that is just an
interface to the main program that runs separately (this is not an automatic
save utility when you receive e-mails and instead you run it manually when
you want to strip out the attachments).  You can also get free VBA macros to
use in Outlook.  Which one you want depends on what features you want.
However, if all you are do are a couple e-mails over, say, a year then
saving and editing the e-mail to remove the attachment is not much more
difficult than having to define a macro in Outlook or click on a toolbar
button for it (especially considering what it takes to add the macro in the
first place).

Setup and usage over time should be less then what you expect when manually
doing the individual save-and-edit operation.  I might remove an attachment
from many a couple e-mails over the span of several years worth of e-mails
so destabilizing Outlook with additional add-ons is not worth it to me.  The
OP never mentioned the frequency at which he needs to remove attachments
(and then following with a compact operation to actually reduce the size of
his .pst file).