No 'SAVE AS' option for attachments in new Outlook desktop app

Anonymous
2023-05-08T09:29:48+00:00

Dear All,

Outlook offered to switch my application to the new Outlook version (there is a switch item below the window close button).

It looks like the in-browser version and works better than the former, but it has a missing option in the attachments drop-down menu, called 'save as'.

We get a lot of documents in our emails, which should be saved in different projects' locations on a local hard drive. The in-browser version and the former desktop app have this option but this new app does not.

How can I add this function back again?

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

István

Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For home

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-28T10:39:09+00:00

    I am also missing this setting. It would be really good, if Outlook would be able to download the attachments as "Save as", and not automatically to the "Downloads" folder.
    I've really enjoyed to use the previous version of Outlook, in which the attachment's download was working as "Save as".

    Please set this again available.

    Thank you in advance.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-26T15:04:04+00:00

    Yes, it was working fine there for a while. However I noticed today that Outlook was no longer prompting where to download the attachment, but was automatically downloading the file to the "downloads" folder, so were are back to the situation where we have to tediously copy all downloaded files to where we want them.

    I don't believe it can be so difficult to fix this issue.....

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-02T19:54:28+00:00

    Also, drag and drop of file attachments to/from emails is an essential feature.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-29T22:50:24+00:00

    I hope this will be fixed as soon as possible !

    For PDF documents, I found this trick (it's far from perfect but it helps a bit):

    1. click on the attached file to preview
    2. click somewhere in the pdf
    3. press CTRL + S to save

    Then it open a window to ask you where to save the document.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-16T07:29:59+00:00

    It's still not fixed. OMG

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