When you save email conversations to your Google Drive, you can select from the following options:

  1. Save each conversation in a separate file
  2. Merge conversations into one file
  3. Save only attachments

Save each conversation in a separate file

When you select this option, each email conversation will be saved in a separate PDF file. All email messages from the same conversation will be merged into one PDF.

The resulting PDF document will also contain all email attachments of the following type:

  1. Images
  2. PDF
  3. MS Word
  4. MS Excel.

For example, if you select two email conversations, and each of them has two attachments as shown below:

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…then each conversation is saved in a separate file. Each attachment will also be saved as a separate file.

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Merge conversations into one file

When you select this option, all email conversations will be saved into one PDF file.
The resulting PDF document will also contain all email attachments of the following type:

  1. Images
  2. PDF
  3. MS Word
  4. MS Excel.

For example, if you select two email conversations, and each of them has two attachments as shown below:

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…if you select Merge conversations into one file, all attachments will be saved in a separate ZIP file. If you are saving all emails in the label, then the name of the file will be the label name. If you are saving just the selected emails, then the filename will be EmailsMergedToPdf date.pdf.

Email conversations will create just one PDF file:
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Save only attachments

For example, if you select two email conversations, and each of them has two attachments as shown below:

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…if you select the option Save only attachments, only attachments will be saved in Google Drive. Each attachment will be saved as a separate file.
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