If you ever get an email message in your Inbox
that includes multiple file attachments, you can easily download all the
attachments to your hard disk as a single zip archive with a click. Such a
feature is available in all popular email clients including Gmail, Yahoo Mail,
Hotmail and even Microsoft Outlook.
However, let’s now consider a slightly different
problem.
You have multiple emails that contain multiple
attachments of multiple types and you now want to download them all (the
attachments) to a local folder? How do you do this?
Well, here’s an easy workaround.
Step 1:
Go to drop.io and click the “Create a Drop” button. Drop.io is now a paid
service but you can still create temporary accounts for free.
Step 2: You’ll
be assigned a unique email address for your drop.io account. Copy this email
address to your clipboard (it’s listed in the right sidebar).
Step 3:
Go back to your email inbox and forward all the messages, that you would like
to download, to your new drop.io email address. Within seconds, drop.io will
pull all the file attachments from your emails and will add them to the new
“drop” that you created in Step 1.
Step 4:
Now click Share –> Zip file to create a compressed zip file containing all
the email attachments that you can save to your computer with a click. Once you
are done with the download, go to Settings –> Maintenance –> Destroy Drop
to delete all your files from drop.io permanently.
