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Moving old emails to Sharepoint and keep the attachment?

Anonymous
2023-03-02T09:14:06+00:00

We have a lot of emails with attachments saved on drives that we are moving to Sharepoint, if I drag the email into Sharepoint you lose the attachment, so you have to do them separately, meaning you can't just drag a large folder at once. I've seen this article suggested https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-US/templates/details/65ceb79430ef4956a0855fbe09249cdf/save-office-365-email-attachments-to-onedrive-for-business/ but it just looks like attachments are automatically saved in Onedrive, this doesn't help with old emails, and looks like I'd just need to move it from there rather than from the email.

Is there a way to do this or is it a pending development maybe?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-02T11:32:33+00:00

    Dear Jedthedog,

    Good day! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to help you.

    As per your description, it seems that you are trying to drag the email into SharePoint, however, lose attachments.

    We've also done a quick test, if we upload a downloaded email directly to SharePoint, and open it in browser, the attachment will be shown as text, if we download the email to local device and open, the attachment is there as expected.

    ImageIf the understanding above is right, per the test and searching, we're afraid that there's no out of box way in SharePoint to achieve this requirement currently. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

    There's a possibility that this can be achieved by Power Automate as a workaround, we've found a similar thread for your reference: Email with attachment from outlook 365 to sharepoint online - Microsoft Q&A

    If you want to know more about Power Automate solutions, considering that we have a dedicated channel Microsoft Power Automate Community, for you to be assisted properly, we sincerely recommend you go to that community and post a new thread. You can click "Start a topic" to post a question there, as shown below.

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    Members and engineers over there are proficient in the knowledge of creating customized flow queries. They will focus on the specific situation on your side and share suggestions for you. We are sure that our experts from that team can address your query effectively and accurately.

    If the scenario above is not consistent with yours, you can also post back and point that.

    Your patience and understanding are highly appreciated. I hope that you are keeping safe and well!

    Sincerely,

    Rhoda | Microsoft Community Moderator

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-05T07:16:34+00:00

    Dear Jedthedog,

    Thanks for your valuable feedback. We'd sincerely recommend you post a new thread on Microsoft Power Automate Community to check if there's any automated way to achieve this requirement.

    Welcome to post new threads in this community when you have other questions next time, we will be here for help.

    Have a good day and stay safe 😊

    Best Regards,

    Rhoda

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-02T11:51:52+00:00

    Thanks for that, didn't know you could retrieve them in a downloaded version. But I think we'll stick with having them separate so that we don't have to download attachments as it may mean doing that to see if it's the file we need, rather than just opening the attachments saved as files in Sharepoint.

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