Zip All Email Attachments In A Outlook Folder

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Thu Aug 05 2021 02:45:15 GMT+0000 (UTC)

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Sub ZipAllEmailsInAFolder()
    Dim objFolder As Outlook.Folder
    Dim objItem As Object
    Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
    Dim strSubject As String
    Dim varTempFolder As Variant
    Dim varZipFile As Variant
    Dim objShell As Object
    Dim objFileSystem As Object
   
    'Select an Outlook Folder
    Set objFolder = Outlook.Application.Session.PickFolder
 
    If Not (objFolder Is Nothing) Then
       'Create a temp folder
       varTempFolder = "C:\Temp\" & objFolder.Name & Format(Now, "YYMMDDHHMMSS")
       MkDir (varTempFolder)
       varTempFolder = varTempFolder & "\"
   
       'Save each email as msg file
       For Each objItem In objFolder.Items
 
           If TypeOf objItem Is MailItem Then
              Set objMail = objItem
              strSubject = objMail.subject
              strSubject = Replace(strSubject, "/", " ")
              strSubject = Replace(strSubject, "\", " ")
              strSubject = Replace(strSubject, ":", "")
              strSubject = Replace(strSubject, "?", " ")
              strSubject = Replace(strSubject, Chr(34), " ")
 
              objMail.SaveAs varTempFolder & strSubject & ".msg", olMSG
           End If
       Next
 
       'Create a new ZIP file
       varZipFile = "C:\Temp\" & objFolder.Name & " Emails.zip"
       Open varZipFile For Output As #1
       Print #1, Chr$(80) & Chr$(75) & Chr$(5) & Chr$(6) & String(18, 0)
       Close #1
 
       'Add the exported msg files to the ZIP file
       Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
       objShell.NameSpace(varZipFile).CopyHere objShell.NameSpace(varTempFolder).Items

       On Error Resume Next
       Do Until objShell.NameSpace(varZipFile).Items.Count = objShell.NameSpace(varTempFolder).Items.Count
          Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("0:00:01"))
       Loop
       On Error GoTo 0
 
       'Delete the temp folder
       Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
       objFileSystem.DeleteFolder Left(varTempFolder, Len(varTempFolder) - 1)
    End If
End Sub






Sub ZipAttachments()
    Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
    Dim objAttachments As Outlook.Attachments
    Dim objAttachment As Outlook.Attachment
    Dim objFileSystem As Object
    Dim objShell As Object
    Dim varTempFolder As Variant
    Dim varZipFile As Variant
 
    'Save the attachments to Temporary folder
    Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    varTempFolder = objFileSystem.GetSpecialFolder(2).Path & "\Temp " & Format(Now, "dd-mm-yyyy- hh-mm-ss-")
    MkDir (varTempFolder)
    varTempFolder = varTempFolder & "\"
 
    Set objMail = Outlook.Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
    Set objAttachments = objMail.Attachments
    For Each objAttachment In objAttachments
        objAttachment.SaveAsFile (varTempFolder & objAttachment.FileName)
    Next
 
    'Create a new zip file
    varZipFile = InputBox("Specify a name for the new zip file", "Name Zip File", objMail.subject)
    varZipFile = objFileSystem.GetSpecialFolder(2).Path & "\" & varZipFile & ".zip"
    Open varZipFile For Output As #1
    Print #1, Chr$(80) & Chr$(75) & Chr$(5) & Chr$(6) & String(18, 0)
    Close #1
 
    'Copy all the saved attachments to the new zip file
     Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
     objShell.NameSpace(varZipFile).CopyHere objShell.NameSpace(varTempFolder).Items

     'Keep macro running until Compressing is done
     On Error Resume Next
     Do Until objShell.NameSpace(varZipFile).Items.Count = objShell.NameSpace(varTempFolder).Items.Count
        Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("0:00:01"))
     Loop
     On Error GoTo 0
 
     'Delete all the attachments
     Set objAttachments = objMail.Attachments
     While objAttachments.Count > 0
           objAttachments.Item(1).Delete
     Wend
 
     'Add the new zip file to the current email
     objMail.Attachments.Add varZipFile
 
    'Prompt
    MsgBox ("Complete!")
End Sub
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