Difference between revisions of "Retain BLOB Extraction Tool"

Revision as of 17:31, 20 March 2017

Retain Blob Extraction Tool v1.0.1.51

The BLOB extraction tool allows you to convert the BLOBs on disk into a human readable form.

This is used in conjunction with the kb How to Find An Archived Message's Corresponding File on Disk

Help Screen

Typing either of the following commands into the command line will return the help screen.

BlobExtractionTool.exe 
BlobExtractionTool.exe /help

Retain Blob Extraction Tool v1.0.1.51
Usage:
  BlobExtractionTool.exe options /output dirspec /input dirspec
Options
/input = Required. A directory to start looking at for content file. If recurse mode not activated and the directory contains no content file, exit with error. Otherwise recurse down any subdirectories, looking for blobs to extract.
/output = Required. Create the output under this directory. If recurse mode is activate, a directory tree is created under this directory.
/version = Optional. Program version is printed to output and program exits.
/recurse = Optional. Enable recursive extraction. If this switch exists, continue going down through all child directories of the input directory, decrypting each item.
/xml = Optional. Export the XML header to same location of final file. File will have .xml extension added to filename.
/help = Optional. Print this info screen and exit.
Example: 
  BlobExtractionTool.exe /input C:\Retain\archive\ /output c:\extract /recurse /xml