Outlook Attachment Exporter

Controlling the size of your Outlook message store can be a pain - you need to delete attachments from messages you've sent, and file attachments from messages you've received.

However, doing that always used to cause me 2 problems - 1) it was a hassle and 2) I lost the little "paper clip" icon in Outlook which showed that those mails had attachments - and I tend to remember which mail I'm looking for with reference to that.

This application was developed to be a program that can either delete an attachment and replace it with a much smaller icon which tells you the name of the file you sent before it was deleted, or can save the file to your hard disk and replace it with a shortcut. In both of these cases the paper clip stays, and in the case of the shortcut, you can double click the shortcut and load the file up, just as before. 

Except the file only occupies space on your disk, not in your mail store. As a final productivity tool, the Outlook Attachment Exporter will even expand .zip files into their constituent files, at the click of a button.

When it's installed, it adds a button to the Outlook main screen so all you need to do is select a message and click the button. It will also navigate up and down your messages, so you can export a number in one go. It remembers where each type of attachment (.doc, .xls, etc.) was last stored and offers that as first choice to store the current attachment. It can be made to be friendly with the current Outlook 2002 security model, thus obviating the need to keep clicking the Outlook dialog box.