Wednesday 28 November 2012

Export Folder Structure + Emails as MSG in Outlook

I came across the following VBA macro. While most people will want to backup their Outlook email via a PST file, some may want to export each message on its own. A single message can be saved by selecting "File - Save As" or by simply dragging the message from Outlook to the desktop, but if you want to do multiple messages while preserving a folder structure it is much more difficult.

In case the article is ever removed I will paste the macro below as well.
http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb/getarticle.php?kb_id=875#instr



Option Explicit

Sub SaveAllEmails_ProcessAllSubFolders()

Dim i As Long
Dim j As Long
Dim n As Long
Dim StrSubject As String
Dim StrName As String
Dim StrFile As String
Dim StrReceived As String
Dim StrSavePath As String
Dim StrFolder As String
Dim StrFolderPath As String
Dim StrSaveFolder As String
Dim Prompt As String
Dim Title As String
Dim iNameSpace As NameSpace
Dim myOlApp As Outlook.Application
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim mItem As MailItem
Dim FSO As Object
Dim ChosenFolder As Object
Dim Folders As New Collection
Dim EntryID As New Collection
Dim StoreID As New Collection

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set myOlApp = Outlook.Application
Set iNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set ChosenFolder = iNameSpace.PickFolder
If ChosenFolder Is Nothing Then
Goto ExitSub:
End If

Prompt = "Please enter the path to save all the emails to."
Title = "Folder Specification"
StrSavePath = BrowseForFolder
If StrSavePath = "" Then
Goto ExitSub:
End If
If Not Right(StrSavePath, 1) = "\" Then
StrSavePath = StrSavePath & "\"
End If

Call GetFolder(Folders, EntryID, StoreID, ChosenFolder)

For i = 1 To Folders.Count
StrFolder = StripIllegalChar(Folders(i))
n = InStr(3, StrFolder, "\") + 1
StrFolder = Mid(StrFolder, n, 256)
StrFolderPath = StrSavePath & StrFolder & "\"
StrSaveFolder = Left(StrFolderPath, Len(StrFolderPath) - 1) & "\"
If Not FSO.FolderExists(StrFolderPath) Then
FSO.CreateFolder (StrFolderPath)
End If

Set SubFolder = myOlApp.Session.GetFolderFromID(EntryID(i), StoreID(i))
On Error Resume Next
For j = 1 To SubFolder.Items.Count
Set mItem = SubFolder.Items(j)
StrReceived = ArrangedDate(mItem.ReceivedTime)
StrSubject = mItem.Subject
StrName = StripIllegalChar(StrSubject)
StrFile = StrSaveFolder & StrReceived & "_" & StrName & ".msg"
StrFile = Left(StrFile, 256)
mItem.SaveAs StrFile, 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(StrDateInput)

Dim StrFullDate As String
Dim StrFullTime As String
Dim StrAMPM As String
Dim StrTime As String
Dim StrYear As String
Dim StrMonthDay As String
Dim StrMonth As String
Dim StrDay As String
Dim StrDate As String
Dim StrDateTime As String
Dim RegX As Object

Set RegX = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")

If Not Left(StrDateInput, 2) = "10" And _
Not Left(StrDateInput, 2) = "11" And _
Not Left(StrDateInput, 2) = "12" Then
StrDateInput = "0" & StrDateInput
End If

StrFullDate = Left(StrDateInput, 10)

If Right(StrFullDate, 1) = " " Then
StrFullDate = Left(StrDateInput, 9)
End If

StrFullTime = Replace(StrDateInput, StrFullDate & " ", "")

If Len(StrFullTime) = 10 Then
StrFullTime = "0" & StrFullTime
End If

StrAMPM = Right(StrFullTime, 2)
StrTime = StrAMPM & "-" & Left(StrFullTime, 8)
StrYear = Right(StrFullDate, 4)
StrMonthDay = Replace(StrFullDate, "/" & StrYear, "")
StrMonth = Left(StrMonthDay, 2)
StrDay = Right(StrMonthDay, Len(StrMonthDay) - 3)
If Len(StrDay) = 1 Then
StrDay = "0" & StrDay
End If
StrDate = StrYear & "-" & StrMonth & "-" & StrDay
StrDateTime = StrDate & "_" & StrTime
RegX.Pattern = "[\:\/\ ]"
RegX.IgnoreCase = True
RegX.Global = True

ArrangedDate = RegX.Replace(StrDateTime, "-")

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



Tuesday 18 September 2012

Domain.com

So I dipped my toe into web development as a favor for a friend and it feels like I've been bitten through no real fault of my own. While the site design isn't necessarily what I would have chosen or gone with its was exactly what he wanted and it seems to work quite well. 

He wanted to put the site live and asked for my opinion on web hosting. Domain.com have been recommended by various online communities I visit for the last 4 or 5 years, they also have a pretty good ethical stance (they seem like saints compared to my regular hosting provider... GoDaddy) anyway despite good promotional offers and Domain.com are crap, hosted applications (phpBB, WordPress etc) are very very slow, and their customer service is no existent. It takes 3-4 days before someone even looks at any tickets you submit, they'll then comment and provide information unrelated to your actual problem, claim your issue has been fixed and then close the ticket so you have no chance of providing feedback OR confirming that the actual issue has been resolved. Its one big JOKE! We'll be waiting for the hosting to come up for renewal and then migrate away.

GoDaddy.com > Domain.com

Video File Conversion

It seems that a lot of video files these days are avi. This is a little annoying as the HP Touchpad doesn’t natively support avi files so I have to convert all my videos to mp4. I have used various converts in the past and had mixed results. Recently I found a great bit of open source software that works very well.
Check out http://handbrake.fr/ for all your video converting needs

Wednesday 13 June 2012

You should only open attachments from a trustworthy source

I have dealt with an issue today that took me a little while to figure out.

A user using Outlook 2007 was getting prompted every time they opened an attachment to either save or open it.

"You should only open attachments from a trustworthy source"


On my computer this seemed like a simple fix, unchecked the box that says "Always ask before opening this type of file" However on my end users PC this option was grayed out. Turns out that Outlook needs to be running in Administrator mode. This lead me to my next problem, all their Outlook shortcuts lacked the "Right Click - Run As Administrator" option. So I created a new shortcut for the user on their desktop pointing it to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Outlook.exe they now have the option to Run Outlook as an administrator.


Monday 9 January 2012

Backups

I discovered a new backup tool today

EaseUS Todo Backup Free

http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/download.htm

From my initial testing this looks very good (especially for a free product)... I'm currently waiting to find out what the snag with this product is