What's new in OutlookAttachView 3.52
Mar 14, 2024
- Added 'Align Numeric Columns To Right' option.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.51 (Dec 27, 2023)
- When you try to use the 'Delete Selected Attachments' and 'Clear Selected Attachments' options, OutlookAttachView now displays a warning about using these options, and the default answer for the question is no.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.50 (Apr 24, 2023)
- Scan only messages with the following 'From' strings - You can now also specify email addresses (In previous versions, the filter worked only with the sender name).
- Scan only messages with the following 'To' strings - You can now also specify email addresses.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.48 (Apr 8, 2023)
- Added 'Sort By' button to the toolbar.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.48 (Apr 7, 2023)
- Added 'Sort By' button to the toolbar.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.47 (Nov 14, 2022)
- Updated to stop the Outlook mailbox scan when you press the Esc key.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.46 (Sep 26, 2022)
- The status bar now displays the current scanned Outlook folder.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.45 (Jul 6, 2022)
- Added /Columns command-line option, which allows you to set the columns to display or the columns to export from command-line, for example:
- OutlookAttachView.exe /Columns "Filename,From,To,Subject,Folder Name,Attachment ID"
New in OutlookAttachView 3.44 (Nov 8, 2021)
- Fixed issue: When choosing to scan the attachments of another Outlook profile (Instead of default) while Outlook is opened in the background, the profile opened in Outlook was used, instead of the profile selected in OutlookAttachView.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.43 (Sep 24, 2021)
- Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.
- Added option to change the sorting column from the menu (View -> Sort By). Like the column header click sorting, if you click again the same sorting menu item, it'll switch between ascending and descending order. Also, if you hold down the shift key while choosing the sort menu item, you'll get a secondary sorting.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.42 (Aug 26, 2020)
- Added 'Copy Clicked Cell' option to the right-click context menu, which copies to the clipboard the text of cell that you right-clicked with the mouse.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.41 (Jul 7, 2020)
- Added 'Preview Copy' option (Ctrl+M), which allows you to easily copy the text or image displayed in the preview pane into the clipboard.
- Fixed the /cfg command-line option to load the .cfg file from the current directory if full path is not specified.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.40 (May 26, 2020)
- Changed to 'Image Preview' option to 'Preview Pane'. The 'Preview Pane' option allows you to view images and also the content of text-based attachments, like html.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.35 (Apr 30, 2020)
- Added 'Enter Key Action' option, which allows you to choose what to do when you press the Enter key: Open Properties Window, Open Outlook Message, Open Attachment File, Open Selected Attachment With..., Copy Selected Attachment To...
New in OutlookAttachView 3.30 (Oct 28, 2019)
- Added 'Scan only unread messages' option.
- Added /extractallsetreadflag command-line option to extract attachments and then set the read flag.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.26 (Aug 21, 2019)
- Fixed bug: When closing the main window during attachment scan, OutlookAttachView remained in memory.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.25 (Jul 31, 2019)
- Added option to search attached documents that contain the specified text.
- This feature uses the search handlers of Windows operating system to search inside Office documents and other type of files, depending on search filters installed on your system.
- You can also search attached .pdf files as long as the PDF search handler of Microsoft (Windows.Data.pdf.dll) or PDF iFilter of Adobe is installed properly on your system.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.20 (Jul 2, 2019)
- Added option to generate MD5/SHA1/SHA256/SHA512 hashes of attachments. In order to use this feature, select the attachments you want to hash, go to File -> Hash Selected Files -> [Hash Type] and the hashes will appear in the 'Hash' column
New in OutlookAttachView 3.16 (Apr 24, 2019)
- You can now select the desired folder to scan or to skip from a combo-box ('Mailbox Scan Options' window).
New in OutlookAttachView 3.15 (Oct 6, 2018)
- The last size/position of the properties window is now saved in the .cfg file.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.13 (Jun 6, 2018)
- Added more information to the log file to diagnose a problem with deleting attachments while using the /extractdeleteall command.
- Added 'TryAgainOnDeleteFail' entry to the .cfg file. If you set it to 1, OutlookAttachView will try to delete attachment again if the first delete fails.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.12 (May 14, 2018)
- Added %folder_full_path% variable to the attachment filename format. You can use it to generate subfolders identical to the folders structure in Outlook (e.g: Personal FoldersInbox )
New in OutlookAttachView 3.11 (Feb 14, 2018)
- Added 'Select All' and 'Deselect All' to the 'Column Settings' window.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.10 (Oct 9, 2017)
- Added /extractdeleteall command-line option, which extracts the attachments and then deletes them from Outlook.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.05 (Jul 26, 2017)
- Added 'Quick Filter' feature (View -> Use Quick Filter or Ctrl+Q). When it's turned on, you can type a string in the text-box added under the toolbar and OutlookAttachView will instantly filter the attachments table, showing only lines that contain the string you typed.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.02 (Jun 19, 2017)
- The properties window is now resizable.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.01 (May 18, 2017)
- Fixed bug: 'Copy Selected Items' worked improperly when setting the 'Unicode/Ascii Save Mode' to 'Always UTF-8'.
New in OutlookAttachView 3.00 (Mar 6, 2017)
- Added 'Message Delivery Time' column.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.98 (Feb 13, 2017)
- Fixed bug: When pressing Delete key inside the text-box of the Find window, OutlookAttachView asked you if you want to delete the selected item instead of deleting a character inside the find text-box.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.97 (Jan 19, 2017)
- Fixed bug: OutlookAttachView crashed when using /SaveDirect command-line option.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.96 (Nov 9, 2016)
- Made another change that hopefully will fix a crash problem occurs on some systems.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.95 (Sep 1, 2016)
- Fixed bug: OutlookAttachView crashed when using the find option while the last item was selected.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.94 (Jul 28, 2016)
- Made a small change that hopefully will fix a crash problem occurs on some systems.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.93 (Jun 8, 2016)
- You can now change the text/background colors for marking inline attachment in the .cfg file (InlineAttachmentBackColor and InlineAttachmentTextColor values). These colors are stored in the .cfg file as Hexadecimal RGB numbers.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.92 (May 9, 2016)
- Fixed bug: OutlookAttachView saved the files with incorrect encoding and Byte order mark when using /SaveDirect command-line option
New in OutlookAttachView 2.91 (Apr 18, 2016)
- Fixed OutlookAttachView to store the 'Create subfolders automatically' option in the .cfg file
New in OutlookAttachView 2.90 (Mar 28, 2016)
- You can now choose the desired encoding (ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16) to save the csv/xml/text/html files. (Under the Options menu)
New in OutlookAttachView 2.87 (Jan 6, 2016)
- Added option to append log lines to the existing log file instead creating a new one. This option was added to 'Copy Selected Files To' window and as command-line option - /LogFileAppend
New in OutlookAttachView 2.86 (Nov 30, 2015)
- Added option to generate a log file in the 'Copy Selected Files To' window
New in OutlookAttachView 2.85 (Oct 28, 2015)
- Added /LogFile command-line option for using with /extractall command, which allows you to generate a log file while extracting attachments from command-line, for example: OutlookAttachView.exe /extractall /LogFile "c:\temp\log1.txt"
New in OutlookAttachView 2.83 (Oct 12, 2015)
- Fixed bug: OutlookAttachView failed to extract the attachment if the value of one of the special variables (%from% and others) contained a character between 0x01 and 0x1f, which is not allowed to use in NTFS filenames. OutlookAttachView now replaces these characters with a space character.
- Fixed bug: The 'Select Outlook Folders' window displayed empty folders list (The bug appeared on version 2.80)
New in OutlookAttachView 2.82 (Oct 1, 2015)
- When using the 'Open Selected Attachment With' option, the 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file' check-box is now turned off and disabled.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.81 (Aug 19, 2015)
- You can now specify environment variables in the base folder of 'Copy Selected Files To...' window (e.g: %temp%\attach )
New in OutlookAttachView 2.80 (Jul 14, 2015)
- When loading large amount of attachments, OutlookAttachView now consumes less memory than in the previous versions
New in OutlookAttachView 2.78 (Jun 9, 2015)
- Added "Don't copy if filename already exists" option to the "Copy Selected Files To..." window.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.77 (Apr 14, 2015)
- Fixed OutlookAttachView to save the size range filter settings into the .cfg file.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.76 (Mar 13, 2015)
- Added 'Always On Top' option.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.75 (Jan 3, 2015)
- Fixed bug: OutlookAttachView failed to remember the last size/position of the main window and the scan options window if they were not located in the primary monitor.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.74 (Dec 10, 2014)
- Fixed to display the profiles list for Outlook 2013 in the 'Profile Name' combo-box.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.73 (Dec 2, 2014)
- OutlookAttachView now also scans the root folder of the .pst file.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.72 (Nov 4, 2014)
- Added %from_email% and %to_email% variables to the attachment filename format.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.71 (Sep 16, 2014)
- Added %localmsgtime% %localmsgdate% variables to the attachment filename format.
- Fixed a crash problem occurred on some systems after version 2.70 update.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.70 (Aug 27, 2014)
- Fixed to display date/time values according to daylight saving time settings.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.69 (Aug 17, 2014)
- Fixed bug: OutlookAttachView crashed on some systems.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.68 (Jun 6, 2014)
- Added secondary sorting support: You can now get a secondary sorting, by holding down the shift key while clicking the column header. Be aware that you only have to hold down the shift key when clicking the second/third/fourth column. To sort the first column you should not hold down the Shift key.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.67 (Apr 3, 2014)
- Fixed bug: when turning on the 'Image Preview' option, OutlookAttachView displayed empty image or incorrect image
New in OutlookAttachView 2.66 (Mar 19, 2014)
- Added more accelerator keys (in the menus)
New in OutlookAttachView 2.65 (Feb 5, 2014)
- Added 'Image Preview' option (Under the View menu). If you turn on this option, a preview of selected gif/png/jpg file will be displayed in the lower pane.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.63 (Dec 23, 2013)
- The number of attachments is now displayed in the status bar while scanning the mailbox of Outlook
New in OutlookAttachView 2.62 (Nov 19, 2013)
- Added 'Recent Config Files' menu, which allows you to easily open the last 10 configuration files that you used
New in OutlookAttachView 2.61 (Sep 12, 2013)
- Added GB and Automatic to the 'File Size Unit' option
New in OutlookAttachView 2.60 (Aug 20, 2013)
- Added option to save and load the entire configuration of OutlookAttachView ('Save Configuration' and 'Load Configuration' under the File menu)
New in OutlookAttachView 2.56 (Jul 26, 2013)
- OutlookAttachView now remembers the last size and position of the 'Copy Selected Files To...' window
New in OutlookAttachView 2.55 (Jul 1, 2013)
- You can now specify wildcards (For example: nir*.doc, abc???.txt) in the include/exclude filename option
New in OutlookAttachView 2.51 (Jun 13, 2013)
- Added option to choose the file size display unit: Bytes, KB, or MB.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.50 (May 27, 2013)
- OutlookAttachView now remembers that last 20 strings you typed in the Extensions List, Excluded Extensions List, Subject contains string..., From string, and To string, and you can easily select a string again from a Combo-Box.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.47 (May 14, 2013)
- Added option to choose another font (font name and size) to display the attachments list. (Options -> Select Another Font)
New in OutlookAttachView 2.46 (Apr 12, 2013)
- Fixed the flickering occurred while scrolling the attachments list
New in OutlookAttachView 2.45 (Mar 21, 2013)
- You can now resize the scan options dialog-box. Also, the last size and position of this dialog-box is saved to the config file
New in OutlookAttachView 2.43 (Feb 11, 2013)
- Added %attach_id% variable to the attachment filename format.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.42 (Jan 24, 2013)
- Added option to change the maximum number of characters in every variable of formatted filename. (The default is 64 characters)
New in OutlookAttachView 2.41 (Dec 3, 2012)
- Added option to filter by the message direction (incoming or outgoing) in the Scan Options window
New in OutlookAttachView 2.40 (Nov 1, 2012)
- Added %message_direction% and %message_entryid% variables to the attachment filename format.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.38 (Oct 11, 2012)
- The 'Show Inline Attachments' option is now turned on by default (In previous versions it was turned off). The reason for this changed: I found out that many users think that there is a bug in OutlookAttachView because they can't find some of the attachments, without understanding that they have to turn on the 'Show Inline Attachments' option.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.37 (Aug 27, 2012)
- Fixed issue: The properties and the options windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.36 (Aug 14, 2012)
- Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option, which allows you to automatically resize the columns according to the row values and column headers.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.35 (Jul 2, 2012)
- Added 'Message EntryID' column, which displays the ID string of the Outlook message
New in OutlookAttachView 2.32 (Jun 27, 2012)
- Added %domain% variable to the attachment filename format.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.31 (May 14, 2012)
- Added /SaveDirect command line option, for using with the other save command-line options (/scomma, /stab, /sxml, and so on...). When you use the SaveDirect mode, the attachments list is saved directly to the disk, without loading them into the memory first. This means that you can save a list with large amount of attachment lines into your disk without any memory problem, as long as you have enough disk space to store the saved file. The drawback of this mode: You cannot sort the attachments according to the column you choose with /sort command-line option.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.30 (Apr 24, 2012)
- Added 'Domain' column, which displays the domain of the from/to email address.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.25 (Apr 9, 2012)
- Added 'Message Direction' column (Incoming or Outgoing).
New in OutlookAttachView 2.20 (Mar 20, 2012)
- Added 'From Email' and 'To Email' columns, which displays the From/To email addresses. (The existing To/From columns shows the 'Display Name')
New in OutlookAttachView 2.15 (Mar 6, 2012)
- Added 'Put Icon On Tray' option.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.11 (Jan 25, 2012)
- When trying to connect to Outlook 2010 with the wrong build of OutlookAttachView (OutlookAttachView 32-bit with Outlook x64 or OutlookAttachView x64 with Outlook 32-bit), OutlookAttachView now displays informative error message about the problem
New in OutlookAttachView 2.10 (Dec 28, 2011)
- changed the user interface of the Main Scan Options window, to make it useable for lower screen resolutions and to give more space to the folders/subjects/from/to include/exclude lists
New in OutlookAttachView 2.05 (Dec 12, 2011)
- Added 'Skip Exchange public folders' option.
New in OutlookAttachView 2.00 (Dec 2, 2011)
- Added command-line options to change any configuration value.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.95 (Nov 9, 2011)
- Added /extractall command-line option, which allows you to extract all Outlook attachments from command-line, according to your saved settings.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.90 (Oct 25, 2011)
- Added option to scan only emails in the last xx days (alternative to the date/time range).
New in OutlookAttachView 1.85 (Oct 10, 2011)
- Added option to scan only emails with the specified 'From' and 'To' strings.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.82 (Sep 27, 2011)
- When adding a folder to scan (with the Add button), the folder path in now delimited with quotes, to ensure that it'll be scanned properly if the folder name contains a comma character.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.81 (Sep 14, 2011)
- Fixed a crash problem when trying to save outlook attachment.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.80 (Sep 5, 2011)
- Added 'Add' buttons, which allows you to easily add folders to scan or skip by choosing them from the list of Outlook folders
New in OutlookAttachView 1.75 (Aug 17, 2011)
- Added the ability to choose the desired Outlook profile inside the 'Mailbox Scan Options' window.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.72 (Jul 27, 2011)
- You can now specify a folder with all its subfolders (to include or to skip) by adding * character to the folder string, for example: Personal Folders\Inbox*
New in OutlookAttachView 1.71 (Jul 19, 2011)
- Fixed OutlookAttachView to be able to scan the public folders of Exchange server.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.70 (Jul 6, 2011)
- Added option to specify a custom date/time format for the filename in the 'Copy Selected Files To...' option, for example: %msgdate:yyyyMMdd% , %msgtime:hhmmss%
New in OutlookAttachView 1.67 (Jun 23, 2011)
- OutlookAttachView now displays (in the status bar) the current copied filename while copying the attachments. It also allows you to stop the copying process by clicking the stop menu.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.66 (May 31, 2011)
- In the 'Copy Selected Files To...' window, you can now specify a subfolder in the attach filename format. For example, if the filename format is %folder_name%\%subject%_%attach_name%.%extension% - All attachments from the inbox will be saved under the Inbox subfolder, All attachments from Sent Items will be saved under the Sent Items subfolder, and so on...
- You can also choose the 'Create subfolders automatically' option if you want that OutlookAttachView will automatically create the subfolders for you.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.65 (May 17, 2011)
- Added time fields for the scanning date range.
- The date range is now saved in the .cfg file.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.63 (May 17, 2011)
- Added 2 actions to 'Double-Click Action': 'Open Selected Attachment With' and 'Copy Selected Attachment To'
New in OutlookAttachView 1.62 (Apr 14, 2011)
- Fixed bug: OutlookAttachView crashed when trying to extract a special type of attachment.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.61 (Mar 18, 2011)
- Added 'Mark Inline Attachments' option. When it's turned on, inline attachments are marked with blue background color.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.60 (Mar 3, 2011)
- Added /start command-line option, which instructs OutlookAttachView to start the mailbox scan immediately with the loaded configuraion, without displaying the Scan Options dialog-box.
- Decreased the memory consumption when the list of found attachments is very large.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.57 (Feb 17, 2011)
- Added new option to specify the list of folders that you wish to skip (comma-delimited list)
New in OutlookAttachView 1.56 (Feb 7, 2011)
- Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option, under the View menu. When it's turned on, the odd and even rows are displayed in different color, to make it easier to read a single line
New in OutlookAttachView 1.55 (Jan 26, 2011)
- Added new option to specify the list of folders that you wish to scan (comma-delimited list), instead of scanning the entire mailbox
New in OutlookAttachView 1.51 (Jan 17, 2011)
- Added 'Open Selected Attachment With...' option, which allows you to quickly view the content of the attachment with another application, instead of the default one.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.50 (Jan 11, 2011)
- Added 'Open Selected Attachment' option (F7), which allows you to quickly view the content of the attachment, without the need to extract the file and then open it from Explorer. Be aware that when you use this option, OutlookAttachView extracts the attachment into a temporary folder, and then opens it with the default application, according to the file extension. When you close OutlookAttachView, all temporary attachment files are automatically deleted.
- Added to option to choose what to do when you double-click on a single attachment: Open Properties Window, Open Outlook Message, or Open Attachment File.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.47 (Dec 29, 2010)
- The status bar now displays the total size of selected attachments in KB/MB
New in OutlookAttachView 1.46 (Dec 22, 2010)
- You can now send the attachments list to stdout by specifying an empty filename ("") in the command-line. (For example: OutlookAttachView.exe /stab "" > c:\temp\att.txt)
New in OutlookAttachView 1.45 (Dec 15, 2010)
- Add new filter: Scan only emails that their subject contains the specified string.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.41 (Dec 7, 2010)
- Added option to exclude one or more file extensions from the attachments list (in comma-delimited list).
New in OutlookAttachView 1.40 (Dec 2, 2010)
- Added Extension column, so now you can easily sort the list by the file extension of the attachments.
- Added option to filter the attachments list by file extension - you can now specify the list of file extensions (in comma-delimited list) that you want to find. All attachments with file extensions that are not in the list won't be displayed
New in OutlookAttachView 1.37 (Nov 15, 2010)
- Added /cfg command-line option for loading the configuration from another .cfg file.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.36 (Oct 20, 2010)
- Added %message_size% and %folder_path% (full folder path) variables to the attachment filename format
New in OutlookAttachView 1.35 (Sep 28, 2010)
- Added an option to control the filename format for extracting the attachments. (In the 'Copy Selected Files To...' window)
- You can include the following fields in the created filename: Subject, From, To, Attachment Name, Folder Name, Message Date, and Message Time.
- Added 'Set the modified time of the file to the time of the message' option. When it's turned on, the extracted attachment file will get the same modified time of the message that contains the attachment.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.30 (Sep 16, 2010)
- Added 'Email Software' column, which displays the email software that was used to send the message. The value is taken from x-mailer header line. This column is only relevant for received messages (Inbox).
- Added 'Computer Address' column, which displays the computer name or IP addresses that sent the message. This column is only relevant for received messages (Inbox).
New in OutlookAttachView 1.25 (Aug 16, 2010)
- Added a new option to 'Mailbox Scan Options', which allows you to scan another profile of Outlook, instead of the default one.
- Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.21 (Jul 12, 2010)
- Added support for embedded message attachments (attachments of another message). These attachments are saved as .msg files.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.20 (Jul 2, 2010)
- Added option to filter by attachment size.
- Fixed issue: removed the wrong encoding from the xml string, which caused problems to some xml viewers.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.15 (Jun 9, 2010)
- Added 'MailBox Scan Options' window, which allows you to choose the dates range to scan.
- Fixed bug: The 'Created On' column displayed wrong dates in some Outlook configurations.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.13 (May 27, 2010)
- Added 'Copy Selected Attachments To...' into the right-click context menu. Also, changed the 'Save Selected Items' to 'Export Attachments Information', to avoid the confusion between saving the attachment files and exporting the attachments details.
- Added separated x64 version - for using only with x64 version of Outlook 2010.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.12 (Apr 29, 2010)
- Fixed a crash problem when using this utility with IMAP accounts
New in OutlookAttachView 1.11 (Oct 19, 2009)
- Added sorting command-line options.
New in OutlookAttachView 1.10 (Aug 11, 2009)
- Added 'Open Message In Outlook' option
New in OutlookAttachView 1.06 (Jul 1, 2009)
- Added 'Clean Selected Attachments' option - clean the content of attachment, but without removing the attachment entry
New in OutlookAttachView 1.05 (Mar 16, 2009)
- Fixed bug: OutlookAttachView failed to scan sub-folders under main Outlook folders.
- Added 'Folder Path' column.