How to Store your Gmail Attachments to OneDrive Automatically?
If you’re using your Gmail account to collaborate with your office colleagues, you probably receive a lot of Gmail attachments. These attachments may contain documents, spreadsheets, photos, project files, zip files and more. With too many Gmail attachments, you risk your Google Drive account becoming full.
Storing all of your Gmail attachments to OneDrive will provide you an easy way to access them later with a few clicks. You don’t have to browse through each email searching for the required file. Instead, they all will be available at a single place and you can rename/ organize them further using a Web tool like Cloud File Renamer.
If you’re looking to automatically store your Gmail attachments to OneDrive, there’s no native method. Google and Microsoft have their own cloud storage services offering free and paid plans. As rivals, there’s no official way to automatically transfer user data from one service to another. However, there are third-party extensions and app syncing services available which can let you automate this task. They also offer free plans with limited features so that you don’t have to upload a single email attachment manually.
Third-Party Browser Extension Method (Freemium)
You can use a free extension in Google Chrome Store named Save Email Template powered by SendPulse. This freeware extension directly moves your emails and email attachments to OneDrive. All email attachments are stored in their original format (for example JPG, RAR, PDF, etc) while email messages are converted to the Portable Document Format (PDF) and then uploaded to OneDrive.
Pricing
The free plan of the Save Email Template extension limits you to only 15,000 emails per month which is more than sufficient for an average home user. The free plan also restricts you to only 3 email addresses and 1 self-owned domain (for example, .com, .net). The paid plans start from $6.40 per month. Or you can go with the “Pay as you go” plans that charge you on the basis of number of emails (for example, $32 for 10,000 emails). It’s up to you.
How Does it Work?
You don’t need to repeatedly command the extension each time you want to save email attachments. Just set it up once and the extension will automate the task from a specific sender. For example: You can set up the extension to automatically move Gmail attachments and emails from the billing department in your organisation to OneDrive. It’s that simple.
Other Supported Platforms
Apart from OneDrive, the extension supports automatic exporting emails and Gmail attachments to Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, Slack, Salesforce or directly to your SendPulse account.
Note: You’ll need to create a free SendPulse account to use this extension.
Third-Party Syncing Services (Freemium)
There are some third-party syncing services that allow you to move Gmail attachments to OneDrive. One of those services is CloudHQ.
How Does it Work?
CloudHQ requires you to first label specific emails to store Gmail attachments. With CloudHQ, you can export the email content into different file formats such as PDF, HTML and Microsoft Word Document.
CloudHQ does offer a browser extension, however, it’s not a mandatory requirement. You can automate this task even without using a browser extension. Just label an email and it will automatically store the email attachment to OneDrive.
Pricing
CloudHQ can be used for free if you’re already using a free plan for your cloud account (here, OneDrive free plan). The free plan limits the maximum file size to only 100 MB. If your Gmail attachments are larger than 100 MB, you may be required to upgrade.
The paid plans start from $118 charged annually for a single user. There are no file size limits for the paid plans and you can use them with both free and paid plans of your OneDrive cloud account. The paid plans come with additional features such as unlimited backup & sync, admin integration and customer support (phone & email).