HubSpot Ideas

jayh

Bulk download email attachments

Currently have to download an email's attachments one-by-one inside the CRM. This takes a long time - especially on the support side where there are multiple images or documents attached - and would be much more efficient if all email attachments could be downloaded together in bulk (like Gmail/Outlook).

 

For each download the destination folder has to be selected each time, which ends up taking much longer than if all the files could get into the destination folder together. This would save a lot of time for users, especially on the service/support side.

39 Replies
AdamG1
Member

Any updates? Almost 3 years and no changes. I wouldn't even call this an "idea", it's a standard feature in just about all email inbox. I figured an easy work around would be to just forward the email to a different email and download all attachments that way but Hubspot only allows 20 attachements at a time and they're not in the order that they're listed in so it's hard to see which one's need to be downloaded manually

OHendrickx
Member

Still an issue.
Please Hubspot, fix this! 😅

TBailer
Member

This consistently kills us

PatrickZ
Member

This is a major problem for me as we often have users who submit 10-20 documents at a time. I have to download them all individually. 

RebeccaAM
Member

Hubspot - seems like this should be a priority with so many upvotes and it's been noticed as an issue for almost 4 years.

LeslieFerrer
Member

I just had to download 73 attachments. 73. Please fix this Hubspot.

LauraSmithTFBG
Member

I have just recently transitioned one (service) department of our company over to HubSpot, and this is actually a huge issue for us. We regularly send files back and forth to clients and the inability to download all attachments in one click adds a lot of time to our workflow. The attachments within tickets also look messy, it's hard to tell what was attached to which email in the thread, and we've had an issue with re-named files not appearing in the ticket at all (they were renamed so we could identify them easily to help a client). 
Hubspot, PLEASE reply to this as this issue will determine whether we are able to move the rest of our company across to HubSpot (i.e. purchase additional paid seats). 

VGumenyuk
Member

Completely agree, we are constantly receiving emails with mass attachments, not having a way to download them in bach, just eating our time. 

MMilani8
Member

We had the same problem with tickets attachments, I came up with this solution that might benefit you all.

I added the Simple Mass Downloader extension to Chrome (but there are probably other services available if you are not using Chrome). In Property history in Hubspot, under File Upload, copy all the attachments urls, go to Simple Mass Downloader, click on the three line icon at the top right corner and select "Import URLs from clipboard" from there I can select the whole list and download all files at once.

LauraSmithTFBG
Member

@MMilani8  a great idea and I've downloaded the extension to see if this will work, but where are you finding "File Upload" when you are in Property History?
Looking at the property history of a ticket with multiple attachments, I can't see anything showing File Upload. 

Are you viewing the history of a ticket, or another type of record? 

MMilani8
Member

@LauraSmithTFBG I'm fairly new to HubSpot so I apologize if I've not been extremely clear with my explanation. Our tickets come from a specific form which has an upload section (hence the "file upload" in property history) so I guess this method works in this case but not if the files are attached to emails? 🤔

JadeaNA
Participant

Yes this would make things so much easier when we have to download project photos. It would also be great to preview all the images in a gallery so its easy to scroll through to find what you are looking for without having to individually click in and out of each one. 

KRobertsson
Member

Totally agree especially since you have to download attachments to be able to attach them to an email send from HubSpot....


Would make more sense if you could just attach attachments from records to emails rather than first having to download them...

I would also like to see that you don't have to download them to see the content of the attachment (only pdf works from what I can see). 

DWiśniowski
Member

What we're missing in Hubspot, in order to fully transition to this software, is the ability to download all email attachments in the integrated mailbox with just one click. It would be great if it could work the same way as in Outlook. When working with a large volume of files, we need the option to mass download this data and further organize it.

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Top Contributor | Diamond Partner

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DSurman
Contributor

I'm so sad to see that this has been hanging out in the ether for 5 years. I hope this is coming soon.

hartdesign
Participant

It's 2024 now @hubspot ... come on, help us out! Surely this isn't difficult to implement? It would really improve efficiency. 

MelissaRodgers
Member

Piling on here. This is really poor design and should be fixed ASAP. Everyone gets emails with multiple attachments. At least provide a way to download a zip file that can be extracted on the desktop.

TechCEO
Participant

This is a critical feature for any sales team managing an inbox, especially for enterprise sales. This is probably a day's worth of software development, if even that. 

 

I am surprised Hubspot is so unresponsive when it comes to this feature. We recently transitioned to Hubspot's Conversations Inbox and it is becoming increasingly clear that this feature is an afterthought to Hubspot vs. being a core feature. 

 

If Hubspot wants to succeed as a CRM, owning the inbox is an important step. I just don't see it as a priority. And if the idea is that Hubspot only reads client requests when they reach several thousand upvotes, then that is a sure path to failure in the long run.