Let's say I have a ton of folders which represent different categories of e-mails in Outlook. Each folder has at least one thousand e-mails. There's a high number of folders too.
If I want to copy to the hard drive the folders with the exact names and files inside, it does not let me.
I have to manually create a folder on the hard drive for each folder in Outlook and then copy all the e-mails within that folder.
Any way to do this faster? Any VBA coding solution?
Use FileSystemObject to check or create folders locally from Outlook vba
Path = "C:\Temp\"
If Not FSO.FolderExists(Path) Then
FSO.CreateFolder (Path)
End If
You can also loop through to get Outlook folders, FolderPath and all their contents count then use Mid and InStr to find position and folder name..
Here is quick vba Example, I'm using Subject-line as save name and Regex.Replace to strip Invalid Characters from Subject-line.
Option Explicit
Public Sub Example()
Dim Folders As New Collection
Dim EntryID As New Collection
Dim StoreID As New Collection
Dim Inbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim olNs As NameSpace
Dim Item As MailItem
Dim RegExp As Object
Dim FSO As Object
Dim FolderPath As String
Dim Subject As String
Dim FileName As String
Dim Fldr As String
Dim Path As String
Dim Pos As Long
Dim ii As Long
Dim i As Long
Set olNs = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Inbox = olNs.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set RegExp = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
Path = "C:\Temp\"
Call GetFolder(Folders, EntryID, StoreID, Inbox)
For i = 1 To Folders.Count
DoEvents
Fldr = Folders(i)
Pos = InStr(3, Fldr, "\") + 1
Fldr = Mid(Fldr, Pos)
FolderPath = Path & Fldr & "\"
Debug.Print FolderPath
If Not FSO.FolderExists(FolderPath) Then
FSO.CreateFolder (FolderPath)
End If
Set SubFolder = Application.Session.GetFolderFromID(EntryID(i), StoreID(i))
For ii = 1 To SubFolder.Items.Count
DoEvents
Set Item = SubFolder.Items(ii)
' Replace invalid characters with empty strings.
With RegExp
.Pattern = "[^\w\.@-]"
.IgnoreCase = True
.Global = True
End With
Subject = RegExp.Replace(Item.Subject, " ")
FileName = FolderPath & Subject & ".msg"
Item.SaveAs FileName, olMsg
Next ii
Next i
End Sub
Private Function GetFolder( _
Folders As Collection, _
EntryID As Collection, _
StoreID As Collection, _
Folder As MAPIFolder _
)
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Folders.Add Folder.FolderPath
EntryID.Add Folder.EntryID
StoreID.Add Folder.StoreID
For Each SubFolder In Folder.Folders
GetFolder Folders, EntryID, StoreID, SubFolder
Debug.Print SubFolder.Name ' Immediate Window
Next SubFolder
Set SubFolder = Nothing
End Function