How to create new Google Drive folder by subject and transfer Gmail attachments to that folder?

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Hi,

Been messing around with Zapier for a while now but can’t figure out if the following is possible. I’ve got a massive amount of email that each have multiple attachments that id need to upload to Google Drive. The problem is that each of these email should be uploaded to a dedicated folder. All off the email have different subjects so i could make a Zapp that creates a folder by the subject but is there any way to add file transfer to the same Zapp?

*New labeled email in Gmail create new folder by subject and transfer attachments to that folder

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Best answer by SamB 15 February 2023, 11:51

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SamB · Accepted Answer

Hi@lauri, welcome to the Community! 🙂The New Labeled Email trigger for Gmail wouldn’t trigger for each file individuallyyou’d likely end up with Zip files being uploaded. The New Attachment trigger would likely be the one to use as that would trigger for each file individually. The issue with that is that it would only see new attachments that came in the last hour.But you could set up a Zap with that New Attachmenttrigger that will create/findthe necessary folders and upload the attachments to them going forward.To move your existing files, ifyou’re specifically looking to use our Transfer feature to move all the files in bulk into the correct folder that won’t work. You’d need an action to create the folder and an action to upload the file andit’s not possible to have multiple actions in a transfer.What I’m thinking you could do instead is use Transfer to forward you the emails with their attachments. Then have a Zap that triggers on the attachments in those forwarded emails, creates/finds the relevant folder then uploads the file. Do you think that approach could work for you here?

lauri · Answer

Hi @SamBThanks you for your answer. Sorry if i wasn’t able to explain the situation well enough or might not understand your solution completely. If i understood you solution correctly it would create as many folders as there areattachments.So i have close to 1000 emailswhich each have 1-10 attachments, all of these needsto be in their matching folders. So i’d need to have as many folders as i have emails, some may have 1 attachmentsome 10 depending on how many attachments were on the email.

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