Gmail How To Download Attachments

Download your email attachments to your PC with a single click using Mail Attachment Downloader. This app works out of the box with most of the popular email services and is highly customizable. You can set multiple filters, so only the attachments that matter to you will be saved.

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Gmail How To Download Attachments

Pros

  • Save Gmail attachments to your desktop PC. Have the attachments sent to your Gmail easily accessible from your Windows Desktop PC. This template will automatically download all Gmail attachments sent to your Inbox to a folder you choose. Note that you need to install the On-premises Gateway and leave your PC on and connected.
  • If you want to download attachments in android follow these steps. Download 1)'download all files' from market or other places. 2)go to gmail app. 3)press preview for attachment you want to download 4)and sellect download all apps and press download. Hope this helps you.

Safe: Mail Attachment Downloader only scans your emails, and it doesn't mess with them in any way. So there's no danger of having your emails inexplicably deleted, even if their attachments have been downloaded by the app.

Highly advanced filters: With just a few clicks, you're able to set the app to create a new folder for each person who has sent you attachments and then download them based on size, file type, email address, date range, and text in the email.

Fast: The app performed very quickly when we tested its download capabilities. It took no more than 20 seconds from the moment we clicked the 'Connect and Download' button for the software to establish a connection with the mail server, check for attachments, and download 30MB worth of data.

Cons

Lack of multiple account support: Currently, there is no way of having the app automatically check for new attachments on more than one email account at a time.

Uninspired interface: While the software's functionality is superb, it is obvious that the app was created first and foremost as a utility. The main window looks bland and doesn't offer any sort of a unique experience.

Bottom Line

Do you have an old email account that you'd like to archive? Or maybe you just want to use your PC's hard drive as a local backup for your email attachments? Then look no further than Mail Attachment Downloader. While the visuals leave room for improvement, the core functionality is rock solid.

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Recently, my workplace moved to Google services based environment, and that includes adapting Chrome as our default browser rather than IE. When using Gmail, I am trying to download a file I received as an attachment to a location on my hard drive (and NOT to the Downloads folder). I only see the option to download to that folder or to my Google Drive. When trying Save As... from the context menu, the browser saves the whole HTML page and not just the attachment.

How can I tell Chrome to save the attachment in a desired location?

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4 Answers

This option is actually within the Chrome settings.

  • Click the options button (3 lines)
  • Select Settings
  • Click Advanced Settings
  • Scroll to the section called Downloads

You can change the location here by ticking the box.

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It appears that the Chrome settings allow you to open an 'Advanced' mode settings page. There, there is a section for handling downloads and where you can check the box telling it to ask the user before every download.

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How To Open Attachments In Gmail

This SettingsAdvanced SettingsDownloadsDownloadsLocation option appears to work for every attached file except a PDF (at least on the Mac version of Chrome that I use). When an attachment is a PDF, no pop-up window asking where to save appears as it does for Word, Excel & various image files....it just automatically downloads.

Gmail Download Attachments Automatically

To save a PDF without downloading first, after changing the download location setting, right click on the PDF attachment icon in the email, click 'Open Link in New Window,' and then once the PDF is open in the new browser window, clicking the download icon will trigger the pop-up, giving you the option to 'Save As.'

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Gmail Won't Download Attachments Android

There appear to be a number of advanced settings options to enable this functionality.

In my organization's implementation of Chrome in the Windows environment, there is a settingsadvanced settings within the GMail account that does not provide for this option.

Gmail Download Attachments Button

Rather, by activating the 'Customize and Control Google Chrome' menu option on the far right-hand side of the address bar, a 'Settings' option exists. Within this Settings option, there is an 'Advanced Settings' option and within this, there is a Downloads section. Within the Downloads section, there is an option to 'Ask where to save each file before downloading'. Simply activate the toggle.

The main point here is that it is a Google Chrome setting, and not a GMailSettingsAdvanced Settings option.

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