Excel Macro to Save Outlook 2010 attachment, oldest email to newest email - excel

Question

Need to save excel attachments in Outlook emails from oldest email to newest email and mark email as read. The newer attachments will overwrite the older if there is more than one unread email.
I receive an number of emails daily that need to be saved to run a report. However, if one report is missed, it is ignored and I go to the next dataset. The following works but does not always save the oldest first...it jumps around.
I have tried a number of options to save oldest first, with no luck. Any help on how I could make this consistently take the oldest email first. Thanks
Sub Save_Attachments()
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application, olNameSpace As Outlook.Namespace
Dim olFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder, olMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim olAttachment As Outlook.Attachment, lngAttachmentCounter As Long
Dim i As String
On Error GoTo Oooops
Set olApp = New Outlook.Application
Set olNameSpace = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFolder = olNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Folders("sub_folder")
If olFolder Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
For Each olMail In olFolder.Items
If olMail.UnRead = True Then
For Each olAttachment In olMail.Attachments
lngAttachmentCounter = lngAttachmentCounter + 1
olAttachment.SaveAsFile ThisWorkbook.Path & "\zzzzz.xls"
Next olAttachment
End If
If olMail.UnRead Then
olMail.UnRead = False
End If
Next olMail
Exit Sub
Oooops:
MsgBox Err.Description, vbExclamation, "An error occurred"
End Sub

Answer 1

Since you did not state the options you tried maybe you did not try
For j = olFolder.Items.count To 1 Step -1
Something like this.
Option Explicit
Sub Save_Attachments_ReverseOrder()
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application, olNameSpace As Outlook.Namespace
Dim olFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim olMail As Object ' <-- olMail is not necessarily a mailitem
Dim olAttachment As Outlook.attachment, lngAttachmentCounter As Long
Dim j As Long
On Error GoTo Oooops
Set olApp = New Outlook.Application
Set olNameSpace = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olFolder = olNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Folders("sub_folder")
If olFolder Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
For j = olFolder.Items.count To 1 Step -1
Set olMail = olFolder.Items(j)
If TypeOf olMail Is mailitem Then
If olMail.UnRead = True Then
Debug.Print olMail.subject & " - " & olMail.ReceivedTime
'For Each olAttachment In olMail.Attachments
' lngAttachmentCounter = lngAttachmentCounter + 1
' olAttachment.SaveAsFile ThisWorkbook.Path & "\zzzzz.xls"
'Next olAttachment
olMail.UnRead = False
Else
Debug.Print vbCr & olMail.subject & " - " & olMail.ReceivedTime & " was previously read"
End If
Else
Debug.Print vbCr & "Current item is not a mailitem."
End If
Next j
Exit Sub
Oooops:
MsgBox Err.Description, vbExclamation, "An error occurred"
End Sub