Download Emails From Outlook Web
Donnie Ehlen
In the past I've copied over certain emails from my Outlook inbox into Dropbox just by using copy/paste function. These would bring attachments along with the original message text and are a backup record for my business. I can't seem to do this anymore but can open the email message attachments one at a time and copy them over to Dropbox. This takes too long, breaks up the information and I lose the original message text. Does anyone know if this fuction can still be done and how with the new changes to Dropbox.
Thanks for this. This one link shows at the bottom how to move the "Documents" folder to dropbox which moves the Outlook data and creates an auto sync. Not what I was doing as I was only backing up selective emails but it might work.
What is interesting is that while playing with this I found that if I copy and past an outlook email with attachments from my Outlook inbox into the Documents folder in Windows first, I can then copy and past it into Dropbox the way I used to with no third party app.
So this is an extra step and something Dropbox has done created this inability to do the same thing directly from my email inbox. No idea why or what the fix might be but it does work now if I take this extra step. I tested it and I can open that same email from dropbox with a double click and it opens automatically with Outlook so the process break is only one way on the save side.
Thanks for the reply Walter. My emails are all set as IMAP. To answer your initial question I am on a laptop and was simply copying emails from my inbox list and pasting them into the appropriate Dropbox folder in order to save them as a backup. Doing it this way would capture not just the email text but also any attachments that were included with the email.
I've been doing this for years but just recently went to refresh my backup for this one business I run and that is how I found the function to no longer work.
There are two reasons I am a Dropbox user. One is the multi device access to my information as I travel and use multiple laptops as well as mobile devices. I also share information with others in a group. The second reason which is the most important is that I use Dropbox as a back up for my media but most importantly also for my critical business communications which is where the copy and paste of certain emails was being used. It was a simple and quick method that I must have to remain a Dropbox user.
To fully understand the issue you are facing with the emails you were saving, it will be super helpful to provide the steps you were taking and the type of device you are using to complete this process, as @Waltersuggested.
Thank you for the reply. I thought I had explained the process and what I was using but maybe this is clearer. I'm on a laptop. I go into my Outlook email inbox. I right click and copy the email if it is needed for future purposes from the inbox without opening it. I go to the appropriate folder in Dropbox and right click/paste the email copy there. In the past this worked and the email copy retained the attachments as well for future reference. Nothing more complicated than this and a function I need with Dropbox. Also just to mention that I did already add the Dropbox add-in to my Outlook account. It did not support this funciton any better as I was doing it.
The last time was a couple of months ago, as it's a back up process for business emails I wish to hold on to. These are Outlook emails file extension .msg that contain various attachments. The ones already in my dropbox folders can still be accessed and opened with a simple double mouse click but no new ones can be added.
Copying and pasting the emails without even opening the email, cannot upload the text of the emails and the attachments to Dropbox. All that is saved to Dropbox needs to be uploaded somehow. Copying the text from your email to a doc, you create in Dropbox would work.
No third party apps. Simple copy/paste with my mouse. Not sure why this is so surprising to the Dropbox team. It was as simple as the alternative of saving an email with attachments to an external or internal hard drive. Except putting them on Dropbox was an added back up and made them accessable from any of my devices. This is a very disappointing loss of functionality to be honest. If you can't explain how to do this on your improved platform I'll be looking for another cloud application. It seems like your integration efforts may be adding a bit of function but it's no good if it also takes away the most basic functionality that was there before. I have years worth of client email communication details dating back to 2013 stored on Dropbox this way and if I can't do this any longer the platform is not worth keeping for me.
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