Justin Beek said:

>My main concern is the renaming of the attachments.

Why is that? How are identically named files of any help? How do they
convey information about the differences of their content, for example?

A better solution IMHO would instead be to embrace renaming by actively
sort to meaningful contexts (one folder per attachment is hardly
meaningful) as well as rename incoming attachments with their original
name plus additional information that would be different like the date
and time. Keeping the proper extension of course. 

This way, there would be no question on what was the actual original
name, as it would be known what added data looked like, and also with the
added benefit of knowing when they had come in (with the original date &
time you'd risk exact copies). Granted this is also in the meta-info of
the file, but date & time is a reliable way of distinguishing equally
named files from each other.

I'm interested enough in the problem to look at scripting solutions.
Cheshirekat wrote "Rename Existing Attachments" so that is probably a
great starting point. Anyone else have already done such a thing?

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