Limiting length of saved attachment in VBA

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I have a simple macro that is saving email attachments. This has been working great, however an application that is accessing these files appears to have an issue with long file names (over 100 characters in length). I'm not a vba expert, but wondered if someone might know how to truncate/limit the file name length when macro runs and saves attachments. The first 30-40 characters include the subject, date, etc. so filenames are unique. I'm really trying to limit overall file name length for those few attachments with extremely long names. Any help appreciated! Thanks-

Sub saveAttachtoDisk(itm As Outlook.MailItem)
Dim objAtt As Outlook.Attachment
Dim saveFolder As String
Dim i As Long
Dim dateFormat
saveFolder = "Z:\"
For Each objAtt In itm.Attachments
i = i + 1
dateFormat = Format(Now, "YYYY-mm-dd HH_mm_ss")
objAtt.SaveAsFile saveFolder & "\" & itm.Subject & "-" & dateFormat & "-" & i & objAtt.DisplayName
Set objAtt = Nothing
Next
End Sub
 
Is there any field you want to shorten over the others?

you can use the left function:
filename = itm.Subject & "-" & dateFormat & "-" & i & objAtt.DisplayName
filename = left(filename, 98)

or
strSubject = left(itm.subject, 30)
objAtt.SaveAsFile saveFolder & "\" & strSubject & "-" & dateFormat & "-" & i & objAtt.DisplayName

The advantage in shortening the subject is that the file extension will not be removed - so you don't need to get it first and add it back.

For what it's worth, because you are using Now for the date stamp and including seconds, you shouldn't have a duplicate file name problem
 
Diane Poremsky said:
Is there any field you want to shorten over the others?

you can use the left function:
filename = itm.Subject & "-" & dateFormat & "-" & i & objAtt.DisplayName
filename = left(filename, 98)

or
strSubject = left(itm.subject, 30)
objAtt.SaveAsFile saveFolder & "\" & strSubject & "-" & dateFormat & "-" & i & objAtt.DisplayName

The advantage in shortening the subject is that the file extension will not be removed - so you don't need to get it first and add it back.

For what it's worth, because you are using Now for the date stamp and including seconds, you shouldn't have a duplicate file name problem
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Thank you Diane- I will try a couple of these changes and update after testing. Best-
 
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