Did you know you can drag and drop an email from Outlook into a SharePoint document library? This is a feature I really like, as it allows me to store relevant emails in a document library that is being used as a project repository. Here’s how it works…
Here I have Outlook and a SharePoint document library side-by-side. I click on one of my emails…
… and drag it over to a non-folder entry in the document library. I can see a faint outline of the email entry that I’m dragging over:
The email is then uploaded to the document library:
It appears as a .msg file along with an envelope file type icon:
If you drag it over a folder, you’ll see the folder outlined with a dashed line, and the email will be uploaded to that folder:
The email doesn’t get deleted from Outlook once you drag it over, so you don’t lose anything in your mailbox when you do this.
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Would be nice to have an option to open msg files in Outlook client
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Hi Tom,
Thank you for post.
The reason I am reaching out to you is because of a situation that we are currently facing.
When we drag-n-drop an email to SharePoint, the email gets deleted in Outlook.
As a workaround we now tell our users to hold CTRL while dragging but we don’t understand why it is behaving like this.
We are 100% certain that it didn’t behave like this before.
Are you experiencing the same? Do you know a solution.
BTW. Microsoft servicedesk claims it works like intended.
Thanks in advance,
Geert
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We are finding the exact same issue recently and agree never behaved like this before. Would be good to know if there is a solution as it is frustrating when you realise the email has been deleted.
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Holding down ctrl and then using drag and drop works.
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