Outlook Does Not "See" Attachment

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Hello Community!

I have a sequence where I Get Outlook Messages

For Each mail in mailMsgs I use write line to write the subject line in output panel and it works
Properties- system.net.mail.mailmessage

Inside the For Each email I have another For Each
For Each item in mail.attachments
Properties- System.Net.Mail.AttachmentCollection
Inside the body a Save Attachments activity
Save Attachments mail message- mail
folder path- full folder path

I have moved Save Attachments under just the first For Each and it didn’t work.
I have counted the attachments and it doesn’t find anything. As far as the automation is concerned there are no attachments. I have only unread messages and other boxes unchecked in the get email.

Please help.

Thank you!

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@Jessica_Moseley You have to move the Save Attachments activity in the inner for each loop activity i.e, For Each item in mail.attachments

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That is the current location of the Save Attachments activity.

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Can you check if mail.Attachments.count value? If its returning a count >0. If it does, then check if the Bot has enough rights to access the save location.

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No value. It doesn’t detect an attachment at all. I put an IF statement mail.attachments.count >0 then message boxes for both results and didn’t get any message box.

I am saving to the automation project folder. How can I check if the bot has enough rights to access the save location?

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@Jessica_Moseley Try to keep save attachment activity inside the for each loop.

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The save attachment activity is inside the for each loop.

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Hi @Jessica_Moseley ,

You do not need nested For Each for this.
The following workflow is saving the email attachments. No additional conditions are needed.

Sol

Here is the .xaml file: SaveAttachments.xaml (5.8 KB)

Best regards,
Marius

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I took a look and everything looks the same in my workflow but it still does not save attachments.

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@Jessica_Moseley - Please share the screenshot of your workflow for debugging purpose…

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Unfortunately, I cannot. I shared all of the activities and properties I have in my workflow and I am happy to share that again or answer any questions.

If it helps, I am using UiPath version 2018.4.6

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Hi @Jessica_Moseley ,

Why are you using UiPath version 2018.4.6 and not an updated version?
It seems that this version does not even apper within the UiPath Product Lifecycle list: https://www.uipath.com/legal/trust-and-security/legal-support/product-lifecycle

Did you try to run my previous workflow?
It seems that in the past this issue was quite present: Mail save attachments activity do not work - #14 by libork

Do you even have the latest activity packages?

Best regards,
Marius

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Client policy.

The save attachments activity is not working.

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Hi @Jessica_Moseley ,

Thanks for your reply!

If you are using the community version, then I strongly suggest to get the latest version.
New release means that sometimes some bugs are found and fixed

If you are using an enterprise version and, if I was in your place then I would directly contact the UiPath Support (Link). As you can see, there are some similar topics here (e.g. https://forum.uipath.com/t/mail-save-attachments-activity-do-not-work/84979 or https://forum.uipath.com/t/outlook-attachments-not-found/283228), with unfortunately no resolution …

Best regards,
Marius

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@Jessica_Moseley - Please try this…Get Attachments.zip (15.7 KB) . This is without using save attachments activity.

I just ran on my end and it is working perfectly.

Just add your account and run it.

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The first invoke method errors saying Stream does not have a public instance method named “CopyTo”

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Please confirm whether you have this in the parameters??

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