I’m facing issue while saving attachments because the attachment name contains special characters i.e : (colon)
Ex for attachment is : FW: This is a name
so, I’m getting an error as access to save path denied.
any solution for this issue ?
Try to remove the special chars from the Name by using RegEx and replace method. Then you’ll get a proper file name to save it.
Does this work if attachment name as special characters
before saving it to the folder we can’t edit it
@anushaanugowda57 Give it a try!
Im using office 365 to read the emails .i tried to invoke the code but getting error
we are wondering, how this invalid filename can occur.
However, we do feel that with an alternate handling and custom save routine we have a chance to overcome it.
please do one favor for us and share the output with us:
- immediate panel - yourEmailVar.Attachments.Select(Function (x) x.Name).toArray
looks strange as an empty name.
Lets more dive into and check with in_EmailMessage.Attachments(0)
Hi ,please find the screenshot
as we can see name is empty but you mentioned:
we keep in mind, that we had seen the behavior of getting removed invalid chars when using the save attachments activity.
But in general we are right in our assumption that the attachment is a forwarded/attached email, right?
But in general we are right in our assumption that the attachment is a forwarded/attached email, right?
Answer : Right ( and Attached email name .ie subject line always will have RE:)
As mentioned the problem is the empty name
In such case we can think about:
- sorting it out for manually handling
- renaming the attachment with a default name / repair name
You mentioned:
But we can do:
Assign Activity:
myMailCopy = myMailVar.Copy
and then we can rename the myMailCopy Attachments Names when we have detected an invalid/empty name
Hi @ppr
This works Thank you so much.
But i also have some issue. After saving it as .msg seeing error popup while opening it. please find the below screenshot. But i don’t see any issue if i save it as .eml format. But for process we need it in .msg format only.
Using save mail message activity / rename file activity to renaming it to .msg
Can you please provide some solution to this?
lets refer to:
and use this information for the name fixing
UPD1: But we keep in mind:
- using a different filetype extension is not doing a conversion. So if eml is working but msg is needed it has to be converted afterwards
Lets scope the topic only to the saving challenge. For eml-msg conversion ope a new topic if additional assistance is needed.
Sure @ppr
Thank you so much for this help.
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