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Ahmed_Mostafa_H's avatar
Ahmed_Mostafa_H
Level 4
11 years ago

What is benefit if using conversion some items Type in EV

i am using EV Version: 10.0.4.1293 

I am using EV server To archive and migrate PST only  that located in user client harddisk 

 

I need to know the advantage and disadvantage for conversion some item types of To HTML and Text

what i will gain and what i will loses if i used HTML ot Text 

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Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    11 years ago
    It's really just formatting that gets messed up when you look through search.asp So you might see a nicely formatted fonversion of a word doc, but in text, you'll lose the fonts and formatting, tables, font color etc Though that's purely for the preview only The original items will remain unchanged If the items can't be converted at all then the content can't be added to the index, only the metadata For instance if you have an ISO file, the name, size, create date etc properties will be indexed and searchable, but because it can't be converted the contents can't be searched Which is why you have to be careful because you see some people tell you to bypass conversion for PDF files for performance gains, but that means that the contents of PDF's are no longer discoverable
  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    11 years ago
    It's really just formatting that gets messed up when you look through search.asp So you might see a nicely formatted fonversion of a word doc, but in text, you'll lose the fonts and formatting, tables, font color etc Though that's purely for the preview only The original items will remain unchanged If the items can't be converted at all then the content can't be added to the index, only the metadata For instance if you have an ISO file, the name, size, create date etc properties will be indexed and searchable, but because it can't be converted the contents can't be searched Which is why you have to be careful because you see some people tell you to bypass conversion for PDF files for performance gains, but that means that the contents of PDF's are no longer discoverable
  • Ahmed_Mostafa_H's avatar
    Ahmed_Mostafa_H
    Level 4
    11 years ago

    Dear JesusWept3

    Does the Conversion affect the Index of the content like attahemnt or mail body

    becasue I try to Convert the ConvertWordToText =0 to Convert the Doc to Text 

    when i try to Serach inside the attahment no ruslt appear but it appear if  make ConvertWordToText =1 and then archived items 

     

  • TonySterling's avatar
    TonySterling
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    No, the conversion does not affect the indexing of the attachments. There are some caveats such as this TN:

    Enterprise Vault fails to search header and footer information in a Microsoft Word document archived as a mail attachment and has been converted to HTML

    Article:TECH57032  |  Created: 2008-01-24  |  Updated: 2013-06-19  |  Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH57032