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XrmToolBox Bulk Attachment Manager - Version 1.0.1.0

I am pleased to announce that today I have published version 1 of my Bulk Attachment Manager plugin for XrmToolBox.  This is an open source plugin that I created because I had a need multiple times to migrate attachments out of CRM and into another system.  because of the way CRM stores attachments in the database, migrating these are sometimes hard said then done.  So to make this process easy I came up with this tool.  Before I go any further I am sure you want the important links so you can take a look.  Here they are:

GitHub Project
Project Wiki
Nuget Package

Right now, this plugin can only download note attachments from CRM.  In future releases I will turn on email attachment downloads and note attachment uploads (notes will need to already exist in the system).  To download note attachments, you have 2 options and that is to either download all note attachments or only select note attachments.  To download only select note attachments, you will need to provide a .csv file with guids of the notes that contain the attachment you want to download.

When the attachments download they will download into a folder in the directory you choose called "Note Attachments".  In that folder will be a folder for each note, the folder names are the guids of the note records.  Inside those files are the attached file themselves.  Also for everything that is downloaded there is an output screen showing you what has been downloaded, along with data on the regarding record.  Once the process is done you and export these results into a pipe-delimited .csv file.

If you have any input on this plugin or experience any issues please leave a comment in the issue tab of the GitHub project.  Thank you.
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