PFFEXPORT(1)

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✨ pffexport(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the pffexport manual page (yes, section 1, LOCAL vibes only) — the little utility that gets your stuff out of a Personal Folder File 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

pffexport — exports items stored in a Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST) 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pffexport [-c codepage] [-f format] [-l logfile] [-m mode] [-t target]
          [-dhqvV] source

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so pffexport is this utility to export items stored in a Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST), no cap ✨

it's part of the libpff package, and libpff is a library to access the Personal Folder File (OST, PAB and PST) format 🫶

source is the source file. that's literally it, she's the star of the show 👑

the options are as follows, bestie, buckle up:

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -c codepage — 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 📝
  • -f format — specify the preferred output format, options: all, html, rtf, text (default) 💫
  • -h — shows this help 🙋‍♀️
  • -l logfile — specify the file in which to log information about the exported items 🍓
  • -m mode — export mode, option: all, debug, items (default), recovered. here's the tea:
    • 'all' exports the (allocated) items, orphan and recovered items.
    • 'debug' exports all the (allocated) items, also those outside the the root folder. (yes bestie, "the the" is literally in the original, i'm not touching it 💀)
    • 'items' exports the (allocated) items.
    • 'recovered' exports the orphan and recovered items.
  • -q — quiet shows minimal status information 🤫
  • -t target — 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 ⭐

💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

None 😌 (she needs nothing from you, she's low maintenance)

🌸 FILES 🌸

None 🎀

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

like, look at her go:

# 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.

ate and left no crumbs 🔥

🩺 DIAGNOSTICS 🩺

errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. and here's the catch, bestie: verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation 😭 (so if you compiled her without it, no tea for you)

💀 BUGS 💀

please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libpff/ 🐛

👑 AUTHOR 👑

these man pages were written by Joachim Metz. slay 🫶

Copyright (C) 2008-2023, 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. (fr fr, no warranty, don't come for her 💅)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

pffinfo(1) 💖

okay that's the whole page, love u, go export some folders 🧚 this was libpff, March 16, 2019 — bye bestie, drink water 💜

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