• I save the attachment to a temporary folder
• Typically I’ll Winzip and encrypt the file
• I then create a message in BC, browse for and attach the file and then upload it
• I then go back and delete the file from the temp folder

I doesn’t sound that bad but frankly its a pain because I constantly having to browse for the appropriate folder.

Does anyone have a quicker way to do this?

I use a temporary folder on my desktop which I always have quick access to (a shortcut is almost always present in the save as/opan as dialog). I clean the folder once a day but you could have a script which takes care of that for you.

Just a quick plug here, but it fits in perfectly with what you’re doing:

I’ve built a service called Mailmanagr on top of the Basecamp API so that you can “e-mail Basecamp”. You can set up an e-mail address for projects and then just send (or forward) messages to that address (including file attachments).

Feel free to give it a try: Mailmanagr

With the new functionality recently added to email attachements into basecamp via replying to a previous post you could have a standard “contact” whose email adderss was the reply address for one message. Then when forwarding emails to this recipient your attachment would also get uploaded.

Hope this helps

Mike