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Extract 'Em!: email attachment extraction extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/extract-em
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Omitted files during export (Ref: Rating on Addon Page) #17

Closed anphex closed 4 weeks ago

anphex commented 1 month ago

Greetings,

I image

I checked your suggestion about duplicates but I couldn't find any explizit mention of duplicates. The extract in this example processed 137 mails that clearly have each a single PDF attached. In this folder there are payment notices, invoices and invoice listings. The invoices arent found at all as it turns out.

Due to GDPR I can't attach a file but the name pattern of the invoices is still

"RG_880_240010_1527506.pdf"

It's also noteworthy that these PDF are in the German Invoice fomart ZugFERD, but it's still a normal PDF with some XML inside.

tmccoid-tech commented 1 month ago

Hi Anphex,

When using the Let Me Choose method, you will not immediately see a reference to duplicates. When you click the Extract 'Em button after discovery is complete, a duplicate count is displayed on the second line of the Exclusions section highlighted in red.

https://tmccoid.tech/images/extractem/screenshots/EE-03_03%20Extract%20Immediate.png

Once extraction is complete, provided that you have the most recent version of Extract 'Em! installed (1.3.1), you can generate an extraction report which will tell you exactly which attachments in which emails were identified as duplicates. Please review this file. An attachment is considered a duplicate if it has precisely the same name and file size down to the byte.

If you are still finding that non-duplicate attachments are being incorrectly omitted, please attach to this bug report the extraction report and, if the data is not especially sensitive, one of the emails containing an omitted attachment. If the email file is too sensitive for the public but you are comfortable with me reviewing it, rather than attaching it here you can email it to me at extractem-dev@tmccoid.tech; please save the email file locally rather than forwarding it, and change the file extension from .eml to .txt before you attach it.

Thanks for your assistance, Tom

tmccoid-tech commented 4 weeks ago

I am closing this issue -- the problem was due to the Thunderbird API, not the extension itself, and the underlying issue has been resolved as of the release of TB 128.