pffexport — exports items stored in a Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST)
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Bugs
Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website:
https://github.com/libyal/libpff/
Copyright
Copyright (C) 2008-2018, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source
for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
Description
pffexport is a utility to export items stored in a Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST)
pffexport is part of the libpff package. libpff is a library to access the Personal Folder File (OST,
PAB and PST) format
source is the source file.
The options are as follows:
-ccodepage
specify the codepage of ASCII strings, options: ascii, windows-874, windows-932, windows-936,
windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252 (default), windows-1253,
windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258
-d dumps the item values in a separate file: ItemValues.txt
-fformat
specify the preferred output format, options: all, html, rtf, text (default)
-h shows this help
-llogfile
specify the file in which to log information about the exported items
-mmode
export mode, option: all, debug, items (default), recovered. 'all' exports the (allocated) items,
orphan and recovered items. 'debug' exports all the (allocated) items, also those outside the the
root folder. 'items' exports the (allocated) items. 'recovered' exports the orphan and recovered
items.
-q quiet shows minimal status information
-ttarget
specify the basename of the target directory to export to (default is the source filename)
pffexport will add the following suffixes to the basename: .export, .orphans, .recovered
-v verbose output to stderr
-V print version
Diagnostics
Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and
debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.
Environment
None
Examples
# pffexport file.pst
pffexport 20110107
Opening file.
Exporting items.
Exporting folder item 1 out of 4.
...
Exporting e-mail item 17 out of 115.
Exporting attachment 1 out of 3.
Exporting attachment 2 out of 3.
Exporting attachment 3 out of 3.
Exporting e-mail item 18 out of 115.
...
Exporting folder item 4 out of 4.
Export completed.
Files
None
Name
pffexport — exports items stored in a Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST)
See Also
pffinfo(1)
libpff January 1, 2017 pffexport()
Synopsis
pffexport [-ccodepage] [-fformat] [-llogfile] [-mmode] [-ttarget] [-dhqvV] source
