Outlook program to move Attachments to SubFolder - vb.net

Question

I have written this small program in VS2010 to run on Outlook 2007.
It works for a standard read through of the Inbox, but I cannot get it to correctly point to other Folders, I am getting a "COMException was unhandled by user code" error that says "The operation failed. An object could not be found." ...
I have included a screenshot of my Outlook structure if it helps ...
Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop
Public Class ThisAddIn
Private Sub ThisAddIn_Startup() Handles Me.Startup
End Sub
Private Sub ThisAddIn_Shutdown() Handles Me.Shutdown
End Sub
Private Sub Application_Startup() Handles Application.Startup
Dim MyApp As Outlook.Application = New Outlook.Application
Dim MyNS As Outlook.NameSpace = MyApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Dim MyInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder = MyNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox)
Dim MyEmails As Integer = MyInbox.Items.Count
Dim MyEMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim MyCount As Integer
Dim MySubFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder = MyNS.Folders("Kickabout") **<<< Error occurs here**
For MyCount = MyEmails To 1 Step -1
MyEMail = MyInbox.Items(MyCount)
If MyEMail.SenderEmailAddress = "MrX#abc.com" Then
If MyEMail.Attachments.Count > 0 Then
MySubFolder = MyNS.Folders("Kickabout\Attachments")
End If
MyEMail.Move(MySubFolder)
End If
Next
End Sub
End Class

Answer 1

OK, I have solved this myself ... if anybody is interested in the future, you have to be quite explicit in setting up the path & need a Function to do so, here is the code ...
Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop
Public Class ThisAddIn
Dim strFolderPath As String
Private Sub ThisAddIn_Startup() Handles Me.Startup
End Sub
Private Sub ThisAddIn_Shutdown() Handles Me.Shutdown
End Sub
Private Sub Application_Startup() Handles Application.Startup
Dim MyApp As Outlook.Application = New Outlook.Application
Dim MyNS As Outlook.NameSpace = MyApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Dim MyInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder = MyNS.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox)
Dim MyEmails As Integer = MyInbox.Items.Count
Dim MyEMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim MyCount As Integer
Dim MySubFolder As Outlook.Folder = GetMyFolder("Outlook (Gary)\Kickabout")
Stop
For MyCount = MyEmails To 1 Step -1
MyEMail = MyInbox.Items(MyCount)
If MyEMail.SenderEmailAddress = "MrX#abc.com" Then
If MyEMail.Attachments.Count > 0 Then
MySubFolder = GetMyFolder("Outlook (Gary)\Kickabout\Attachments")
End If
MyEMail.Move(MySubFolder)
End If
Next
End Sub
Function GetMyFolder(FolderPath)
' folder path needs to be something like
' "Public Folders\All Public Folders\Company\Sales"
Dim aFolders
Dim fldr
Dim i
Dim objNS
On Error Resume Next
strFolderPath = Replace(FolderPath, "/", "\")
aFolders = Split(FolderPath, "\")
'get the Outlook objects
' use intrinsic Application object in form script
objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
'set the root folder
fldr = objNS.Folders(aFolders(0))
'loop through the array to get the subfolder
'loop is skipped when there is only one element in the array
For i = 1 To UBound(aFolders)
fldr = fldr.Folders(aFolders(i))
'check for errors
'If Err() <> 0 Then Exit Function
Next
GetMyFolder = fldr
' dereference objects
objNS = Nothing
End Function
End Class