With the habit of sharing photos with family and friends via email, we often end up with our memories scattered all over our email inboxes…so we thought it would be helpful to list a few ways to extract photos from your inbox. entry. this way you can move them to your photo archive and enjoy those memories that would otherwise be lost among tons of emails. enjoy!
need to save/download photos from your email?
Emailing photos is an easy and convenient way to share them, but did you know that most people don’t bother saving those photos to their digital photo center? It’s an easy mistake to miss. Unless we get into the habit of regularly extracting and saving those emailed photos, many memories go missing and are never seen again. Let’s change this, okay?
There are a few different ways to download and save photos from your email accounts, and while they vary a bit depending on the system you use, it’s a fairly easy task to accomplish. Here’s how to do it in the most common email management apps like Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, and Gmail.
Using an email application?
If you are using an email application such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, or Mozilla Thunderbird, you can download a photo attachment simply by clicking the attachment bar in the email. from there, you will get an option to save it. it is also possible to save the photo by selecting the email, previewing the photo and right clicking on the photo to see the saving options.
download photos from multiple emails?
If you want to extract photos from multiple emails, it’s too slow to download attached photos one by one from each email, but fortunately, there are ways to download multiple photos from multiple emails at once. #timesaver
how to download photos from apple mail
If you are using apple mail, select multiple emails from which you want to download photos by holding down the [command] key. you can see the preview of multiple emails stacked on top of each other on the right. then click on the file and save attachments in the top menu. this way you can save all attached photos at once in a dedicated folder.
using yahoo mail?
Let’s look at some features you can enjoy when using your email account from your web browser or native app. In the Yahoo Mail Browser, you can save a photo from a single email just by right clicking on the image preview, just like in the other email apps. then you will see an option to save the image to your downloads folder.
yahoo mail also offers a very easy way to extract photos attached to various emails in your inbox. it actually gathers all the received and emailed photos in a dedicated tab so you can easily view and download them from there. it is simply called “photos”. this includes photos sent as attachments, as well as photos embedded in the body of messages.
using gmail?
When you check your gmail inbox from your web browser, you can download photos from your emails in much the same way as other email services: by right-clicking on the image preview or from the slider. of attachments. that will give you the option to save your image to the downloads folder.
If the photo is attached instead of embedded, you will see a small preview of that attachment and you can download the photo directly from this preview by clicking the arrow icon without viewing the photo. you can also click to view the full image and download it from that window.
connect a third party app to gmail
Do you want to download photos from multiple emails in gmail at once? Unfortunately, Gmail does not include a built-in feature like Yahoo Mail to view and download photos as a batch. However, it is possible to integrate it with another app, such as dropbox, so you can easily browse emails and download photos to a dedicated folder.
Interested in trying this out?
then go to your gmail mailbox in your browser, click the “+” button on the right menu to browse the list of available gmail plugins. there you can easily search and find dropbox for gmail.
click the dropbox icon and it will ask you to select an email for dropbox to recommend content to you. When you select an email, the dropbox window will display the email attachments allowing you to select and save them to your dropbox. The first time you use dropbox for gmail, you need to sign in and allow dropbox to access gmail, but that’s a one time permission setting.
years of emails to download?
Do you have years of emails you need to handle? so the best option is probably to use a third party solution just to save time. These are usually paid solutions, but can be worth it depending on the amount of work you need to do. These solutions also offer some easy filtering, sorting, and tagging options that you might need. Some examples are Mail Attachment Downloader for Mac as well as Outlook Attachment Extractor, Message Exporter and Windows File Manager for Windows.
Extract your memories from your email now!
Now that you have some simple ways to download photos from your mailbox in mind, it’s time to take action and prevent your memories from being lost between years of emails. if you can create a routine to regularly download incoming photos from your email, that’s even better! in this way you can avoid accumulating work, enjoy your memories in a more organized way and surely nothing is lost!
[editor’s note: Also consider setting up a zap if you’re constantly receiving photos in your email account. subject to availability, of course! 🙂 ]