Saving hyperlinks from an e-mail to a designated folder

Nija

Environment: Citrix Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI)
Program: Microsoft Outlook 2010

Every week, but occasionally more frequently, I will receive an e-mail that contains hyperlinked documents such as the following:



Rather than clicking on each link and saving them to the same folder (the current process), is there a way to automate the saving of these documents?

I have no control over the format that these documents are sent in, but the above picture is fairly consistent. The file type is normally PDF but TIFF, JPG and DOC/DOCX are not uncommon.

Thanks.
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bowen

I can't find anything that's free. But there are solutions.

http://www.techhit.com/ezdetach/outlook_attachments.html

is the best one I could find.

TychoCelchuuu

Can you save the email as an html file, open it up in a browser, and use a download manager?

Nija

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Can you save the email as an html file, open it up in a browser, and use a download manager?

I had not thought of that. Let's try!

Nija

I downloaded DownThemAll (A firefox extension), which seemed to work well. Unfortunately, keeps trying to download 'download.aspx', and it frequently changes the filenames from their intended name to a shorter version, as well as changing to extension. I will have to look into other download managers. Any recommendations? A lot of these looks sketchy.

ThunderSaid

Are you just trying to keep them all organized in the same place? If it's not critical that they reside on your local disk, you could keep them organized with Evernote. Evernote (even the free account) will give you an email address you can send notes to. When one of these emails comes in, just forward it to that address. The email and the attachments will be in your Evernote default notebook. The free account has an attachment limit of 25Mb per note, but you can increase that to 100Mb with the $5/month account.

If you need them on your local disk, you could check out sendtodropbox.com. I haven't used them, but it looks like you could forward the email to the account they give you and have any attachments automatically sync to any computers you've got connected to your dropbox account.

(edit)Looking at your post more closely, it looks like you might just be getting the links in the email. If that's the case, I don't know if either of my two suggestions would work. However, I'll leave them anyway since they might apply to your situation, and I think they're both neat "life hacks" in any case(/edit)

Nija

They are nice, but they will not work in this situation.