Getting attachment from outlook using Access VBA - vba

Question

I have a created folder in my outlook named "Reports". This folder contains emails with one attachment in each email. I would like to use ACCESS VBA to save the attachments from the "Reports" folder in Outlook to a local drive in my computer. here is the code I have so far, but gives me errors. Please help:
Sub GetAttachments()
Dim ns As NameSpace
Dim Inbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim folder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim Item As Object
Dim Atmt As Attachment
Dim FileName As String
Dim i As Integer
Set ns = GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Inbox = ns.Folders.Item("Reports") // I get an error in this line says an object could not be found
i = 0
If Inbox.Items.Count = 0 Then
MsgBox "There are no messages in the Inbox.", vbInformation, _
"Nothing Found"
Exit Sub
End If
For Each Item In Inbox.Items
For Each Atmt In Item.Attachments
FileName = "C:\Automation\" & Atmt.FileName
Atmt.SaveAsFile FileName // here is another error says method is not found
i = i + 1
Next Atmt
Next Item

Answer 1

Is your Reports folder within your Inbox folder? You may need to do something like this:
Set ns = GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Inbox = ns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set RptFolder = Inbox.Folders("Reports")
Your syntax for saving attachments looks correct (apart from your comments not being correct for VBA). You could print out the Filename that you are creating to see if it's a valid name. And I assume that you have created the Automation folder that you mention.
Update:
Try declaring your Atmt as an Outlook.Attachment. There is such a thing as an Access.Attachment which does not have a SaveAsFile method, and it's probably picking that one up first. If you include the library name, you should get the one you need.
Update 2:
To get to your Reports folder, one way is to get the Inbox folder as you are currently doing, then get its parent, then get the Reports folder under that.
Set ns = GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Inbox = ns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set Mailbox = Inbox.Parent
Set RptFolder = Mailbox.Folders("Reports")
Another way would be to scan the items under "ns" to find the one that starts with "Mailbox", then get the Reports folder under that. It seems a little more cumbersome than getting the parent of the inbox. That also seems cumbersome, but I couldn't find a way to get to the Mailbox folder directly.

Answer 2

Replace
For Each Item In Inbox.Items
For Each Atmt In Item.Attachments
FileName = "C:\Automation\" & Atmt.FileName
Atmt.SaveAsFile FileName // here is another error says method is not found
i = i + 1
Next Atmt
With.....
For Each Item In Inbox.Items
For Each Atmt In Item.Attachments
FileName = "C:\Automation\" & Atmt.FileName
Attachments.SaveAsFile FileName // here is another error says method is not found
i = i + 1
Next Atmt
Outlook does not have a problem with atmt in the reference however, MS Access does. This should fix your problem.
Davis Rogers

Answer 3

Replace
Dim Atmt As Attachment
with
Dim Atmt As Outlook.Attachment
It'll make Access find the correct Class for atmt.