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I am curious to know how to move emails from a specific subfolder to my hard drive. Basically, my inbox has about 20 subfolders. I want to be able to move all the emails from subfolder1 to my hard drive.
Is there a macro to specifically go to that folder and move all the emails onto my hard drive? Granted I do want to keep all the emails in .msg rather than being a .txt file.

Answer 1

I bielive you can develop a VBA macro or add-in to get the job done. See Getting Started with VBA in Outlook 2010 to get started.
The SaveAs method of the MailItem class saves the Microsoft Outlook item to the specified path and in the format of the specified file type. If the file type is not specified, the MSG format (.msg) is used. The file type to save can be one of the following OlSaveAsType constants: olHTML, olMSG, olRTF, olTemplate, olDoc, olTXT, olVCal, olVCard, olICal, or olMSGUnicode. For example:
Sub SaveAsMSG()
Dim myItem As Outlook.Inspector
Dim objItem As Object
Set myItem = Application.ActiveInspector
If Not TypeName(myItem) = "Nothing" Then
Set objItem = myItem.CurrentItem
strname = objItem.Subject
'Prompt the user for confirmation
Dim strPrompt As String
strPrompt = "Are you sure you want to save the item? " & _
"If a file with the same name already exists, " & _
"it will be overwritten with this copy of the file."
If MsgBox(strPrompt, vbYesNo + vbQuestion) = vbYes Then
objItem.SaveAs Environ("HOMEPATH") & "\My Documents\" & strname & ".msg", olMSG
End If
Else
MsgBox "There is no current active inspector."
End If
End Sub

Answer 2

This should allow you to select outlook folder and hard drive folder, All emails in that folder and all sub folders will be saved to your HD
Option Explicit
Sub SaveMsgToFolders()
Dim i, j, n As Long
Dim sSubject As String
Dim sName As String
Dim sFile As String
Dim sReceived As String
Dim sPath As String
Dim sFolder As String
Dim sFolderPath As String
Dim SaveFolder As String
Dim Prompt As String
Dim Title As String
Dim iNameSpace As NameSpace
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim olmItem As MailItem
Dim FSO, ChosenFolder As Object
Dim Folders As New Collection
Dim EntryID As New Collection
Dim StoreID As New Collection
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set olApp = Outlook.Application
Set iNameSpace = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set ChosenFolder = iNameSpace.PickFolder ' // Chose Outlook Folder
If ChosenFolder Is Nothing Then
GoTo ExitSub:
End If
Prompt = "Please enter the path to save all the emails to."
Title = "Folder Specification"
sPath = BrowseForFolder
If sPath = "" Then
GoTo ExitSub:
End If
If Not Right(sPath, 1) = "\" Then
sPath = sPath & "\"
End If
Call GetFolder(Folders, EntryID, StoreID, ChosenFolder)
For i = 1 To Folders.Count
sFolder = StripIllegalChar(Folders(i))
n = InStr(3, sFolder, "\") + 1
sFolder = Mid(sFolder, n, 256)
sFolderPath = sPath & sFolder & "\"
SaveFolder = Left(sFolderPath, Len(sFolderPath) - 1) & "\"
If Not FSO.FolderExists(sFolderPath) Then
FSO.CreateFolder (sFolderPath)
End If
Set SubFolder = olApp.Session.GetFolderFromID(EntryID(i), StoreID(i))
On Error Resume Next
For j = 1 To SubFolder.Items.Count
Set olmItem = SubFolder.Items(j)
sReceived = ArrangedDate(olmItem.ReceivedTime)
sSubject = olmItem.Subject
sName = StripIllegalChar(sSubject)
sFile = SaveFolder & sReceived & "_" & sName & ".msg"
sFile = Left(sFile, 256)
olmItem.SaveAs sFile, 3
Next j
On Error GoTo 0
Next i
ExitSub:
End Sub
Function StripIllegalChar(StrInput)
Dim RegX As Object
Set RegX = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
RegX.Pattern = "[\" & Chr(34) & "\!\#\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\=\+\|\[\]\{\}\`\'\;\:\<\>\?\/\,]"
RegX.IgnoreCase = True
RegX.Global = True
StripIllegalChar = RegX.Replace(StrInput, "")
ExitFunction:
Set RegX = Nothing
End Function
Function ArrangedDate(sDateInput)
Dim sFullDate As String
Dim sFullTime As String
Dim sAMPM As String
Dim sTime As String
Dim sYear As String
Dim sMonthDay As String
Dim sMonth As String
Dim sDay As String
Dim sDate As String
Dim sDateTime As String
Dim RegX As Object
Set RegX = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
If Not Left(sDateInput, 2) = "10" And _
Not Left(sDateInput, 2) = "11" And _
Not Left(sDateInput, 2) = "12" Then
sDateInput = "0" & sDateInput
End If
sFullDate = Left(sDateInput, 10)
If Right(sFullDate, 1) = " " Then
sFullDate = Left(sDateInput, 9)
End If
sFullTime = Replace(sDateInput, sFullDate & " ", "")
If Len(sFullTime) = 10 Then
sFullTime = "0" & sFullTime
End If
sAMPM = Right(sFullTime, 2)
sTime = sAMPM & "-" & Left(sFullTime, 8)
sYear = Right(sFullDate, 4)
sMonthDay = Replace(sFullDate, "/" & sYear, "")
sMonth = Left(sMonthDay, 2)
sDay = Right(sMonthDay, Len(sMonthDay) - 3)
If Len(sDay) = 1 Then
sDay = "0" & sDay
End If
sDate = sYear & "-" & sMonth & "-" & sDay
sDateTime = sDate & "_" & sTime
RegX.Pattern = "[\:\/\ ]"
RegX.IgnoreCase = True
RegX.Global = True
ArrangedDate = RegX.Replace(sDateTime, "-")
ExitFunction:
Set RegX = Nothing
End Function
Sub GetFolder(Folders As Collection, EntryID As Collection, StoreID As Collection, Fld As MAPIFolder)
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Folders.Add Fld.FolderPath
EntryID.Add Fld.EntryID
StoreID.Add Fld.StoreID
For Each SubFolder In Fld.Folders
GetFolder Folders, EntryID, StoreID, SubFolder
Next SubFolder
ExitSub:
Set SubFolder = Nothing
End Sub
Function BrowseForFolder(Optional OpenAt As String) As String
Dim ShellApp As Object
Set ShellApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application"). _
BrowseForFolder(0, "Please choose a folder", 0, OpenAt)
On Error Resume Next
BrowseForFolder = ShellApp.self.Path
On Error GoTo 0
Select Case Mid(BrowseForFolder, 2, 1)
Case Is = ":"
If Left(BrowseForFolder, 1) = ":" Then
BrowseForFolder = ""
End If
Case Is = "\"
If Not Left(BrowseForFolder, 1) = "\" Then
BrowseForFolder = ""
End If
Case Else
BrowseForFolder = ""
End Select
ExitFunction:
Set ShellApp = Nothing
End Function