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Delete Attachments

This option removes attachments from emails (the attachments are NOT saved). The email body has a status message added reflecting that attachments have been removed. The advantages are:

Your Outlook mailbox (PST file) is smaller, and therefore easier to backup
Outlook is faster, as it has less data to go through
Outlook is more reliable, as it tends to crash as the mailbox gets close to its maximum size of 2 GB.

Attachments are deleted via the Recycle Bin. DetachPipe leaves a link in place so that you can see where the attachment was, and also you can restore the attachment from the Recycle Bin and re-attach it to the email at a later date. If you don't want these status messages added to your email, edit Languages/English.ini and set the text for entries 10200 and 10210 to blank (i.e. = nothing).

Deletes are preceded by the confirmation window:

Figure 1. Confirmation Window

This option respects the Manual Saving/detaching/deleting settings, so if you have checked Retain attachment icon on emails, the emails will still retain a small dummy attachment.

You can control which emails have their attachment deleted based on size and age, using the Manual Saving/detaching/deleting settings. First click the DetachPipe toolbar button\Settings. On the Detach Settings tab\Manual Saving/detaching/deleting, specify your Age and Size criteria. Click [Ok] to save the default settings. Then, select the emails to delete, and click the DetachPipe toolbar button\Delete.

Figure 2. An email that has had attachments removed. This message had three (3) attachments before they were deleted. Retain attachment icon on emails was checked, so the dummy attachment has been added to retain the attachment flag for search purposes.