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.

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Hi,

Do you know an equivalent freeware or donateware doing the same but with attachments embedded in calendar appointments?

Another question: do you know how to write a link (in Word or Excel) opening a given attachment in a given email; I know how to do it to open the email only.

Best regards