---
name: "msiecfexport"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libmsiecf-utils"
version: "20181227-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/msiecfexport"
---

# msiecfexport(1)

exports items stored in a MSIE Cache File (index.dat)

## NAME

**msiecfexport** – exports items stored in a MSIE Cache File (index.dat)

## SYNOPSIS

**msiecfexport** \[**-c** *codepage*\] \[**-l** *logfile*\] \[**-m** *mode*\] \[**-t** *target*\] \[**-hvV**\] *source*

## DESCRIPTION

**msiecfexport** is a utility to export items stored in a MSIE Cache File (index.dat)

**msiecfexport** is part of the **libmsiecf** package. **libmsiecf** is a library to access the MSIE Cache File (index.dat) format

*source* is the source file.

The options are as follows:

- **-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

- **-h**

  shows this help

- **-l** *logfile*

  specify the file in which to log information about the exported items

- **-m** *mode*

  specify the export mode, option: all, items (default), recovered 'all' exports the (allocated) items and recovered items, 'items' exports the (allocated) items and 'recovered' exports the recovered items

- **-t** *target*

  specify the target directory to export to (default is the source filename followed by .export)

- **-v**

  verbose output to stderr

- **-V**

  print version

## ENVIRONMENT

None

## FILES

None

## EXAMPLES

```
# msiecfexport index.dat
msiecfexport 20111030
Opening file.
Exporting items.
Number of items: 42.
Record type		: URL
Offset range		: 20480 - 20736 (256)
Location		: Cookie:username@domain.com/
Primary time		: Mar 23, 2009 17:23:01.515000
Secondary time		: Nov 29, 2007 11:23:44.906000
Filename		: username@domain[1].txt
Cache directory index	: -2 (0xfe)
...
```

Exporting recovered items. Number of recovered items: 0.

Export completed.

## 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.

## BUGS

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

## AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2009-2018, 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.

## SEE ALSO

[msiecfinfo(1)](/msiecfinfo/1.md)