Load personal storage PST or OST with options

GroupDocs.Conversion provides PersonalStorageLoadOptions to give you control over how source personal storage (PST/OST) document will be processed. The following options could be set:

• ConvertOwned - controls whether the owned documents in the documents container must be converted
• ConvertOwner - controls whether the documents container itself must be converted If this property is true the documents container will be the first converted document
• Depth - controls how many levels in depth to perform conversion
• Folder -  folder which to be processed Default is Inbox

Get folders from personal storage

The following code sample shows how to get folders within personal storage document:

using (Converter converter = new Converter("sample.pst"))
{
    var documentInfo = converter.GetDocumentInfo();
    var ostInfo = (PersonalStorageDocumentInfo) documentInfo;
    Console.WriteLine(ostInfo.RootFolderName);
    foreach (var folder in ostInfo.Folders)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(folder);
    }
}

Convert each personal storage content to different formats

The following code sample shows how to convert each personal storage content to different format based on the content type.

• JPG attachments will be converted to PNG
• DOCX attachments will be converted to PDF
• Emails and all other types will be converted to HTML

using (Converter converter = new Converter("sample.pst", (FileType fileType) =>
{
    if (fileType == PersonalStorageFileType.Ost)
    {
        return new PersonalStorageLoadOptions
        {
            Folder = "ROOT/Inbox",
        };
    }
    if (fileType == EmailFileType.Msg)
    {
        return new EmailLoadOptions
        {
            ConvertOwner = true,
            ConvertOwned = true,
            Depth = 2
        };
    }
    return null;
}))
{
    int index = 0;
    converter.Convert((FileType fileType) =>
    {
        string fileName = $"converted_{++index}.{fileType.Extension}";
        return new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create);
    }, (string sourceFileName, FileType fileType) =>
    {
        if (fileType == ImageFileType.Jpg)
        {
            return new ImageConvertOptions
            {
                Format = ImageFileType.Png
            };
        }
        if (fileType == WordProcessingFileType.Docx)
        {
            return new PdfConvertOptions();
        }
        return new MarkupConvertOptions();
    });
}

More resources

GitHub Examples

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

• GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET examples, plugins, and showcase
• GroupDocs.Conversion for Java examples, plugins, and showcase
• Document Conversion for .NET MVC UI Example
• Document Conversion for .NET App WebForms UI Modern Example
• Document Conversion for Java App Dropwizard UI Modern Example
• Document Conversion for Java Spring UI Example

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