Remove the attachments from your Outlook e-mail
On Monday, I described Vaita's free Outlook Duplicate Items Remover, an add-on that finds duplicate copies of Outlook messages, contacts, calendar entries, and tasks. Now, I'll continue to trim my bloated Outlook in-box by using another freebie: the Kopf Outlook Attachment Remover created by Bruno Marotta.
After you download the program and restart Outlook, you see a floating Attachment Remover toolbar that you can drag and dock at the top of the screen along with all the other toolbars to keep it from blocking your view. Click the toolbar's one-and-only button to open the program's one-and-only dialog box.

The Kopf Outlook Attachment Remover shrinks your in-box by storing attachments in a separate folder and placing links to the files in the original messages.
(Credit: Kopf/Bruno Marotta)You can choose the folder to scan for attachments, the type of files to remove, the size limit (the default setting is to remove all file attachments more than 10KB in size), the folder to place the attachments in, and whether to replace the file with a link or text message, or to simply remove it.
The add-on will recreate the structure of the folders and subfolders you scan, but I wish it offered a way to separate attachments by file type or by sender prior to the scan. This would let me detach all the PDFs from my boss, for example.
Since Outlook Attachment Remover is donationware, be sure to drop a couple of bills in the hat if you find the program beneficial.
Wednesday: tweak the Registry to return missing icons to the system tray.
Dennis O'Reilly has covered PCs and other technologies in print and online since 1985. Along with more than a decade as editor for Ziff-Davis's Computer Select, Dennis edited PC World's award-winning Here's How section for more than seven years. He is a member of the CNET blog Network, and is not an employee of CNET.





I know that in my case it would not be a hardhship, since most of my inbox is there for long term reference rather than active use.
I use the Outlook feature which replicates my entire server-based Inbox on my laptop for disconnected use, but my server-based inbox is still there for access from my desktop and from shared machines without having to have access to a single shared network drive.
1.Let's say that you remove attachments from your active inbox email if latter on you decide to backup or archive that inbox it will be not complete because you already removed attachments so backup or archive will be incomplete and this will limit any possibility of backup or archive
2.I liked the idea that the software removes attachement and places a link to the file, but what happens if that location of files is changed into another folder or somewhere else. I guess the link will not work anymore which will mean a lot of headache.
So I guess the best way is to archive the inbox folder regularly and to remove attachments from that archive.
Any other idea?
-
by imoDOTcom
January 13, 2009 6:17 PM PST
- TO INETDOG:
-
Reply to this comment
-
(6 Comments)"I use the Outlook feature which replicates my entire server-based Inbox on my laptop for disconnected use,......."
May I ask how you do that??
That would help me a lot.
Thank you in advance!
imoDOTcom