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);
}
}
This functionality is introduced in v20.6
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();
});
}
This functionality is introduced in v20.6
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