static List convertToProperties(ListManagedBlock[] blocks) throws IOException 
{
        List properties = new ArrayList();
        for (int j = 0; j <  blocks.length; j++)
        {
            byte[] data           = blocks[ j ].getData();
            int    property_count = data.length
                                    / POIFSConstants.PROPERTY_SIZE;
            int    offset         = 0;
            for (int k = 0; k <  property_count; k++)
            {
                switch (data[ offset + PropertyConstants.PROPERTY_TYPE_OFFSET ])
                {
                    case PropertyConstants.DIRECTORY_TYPE :
                        properties
                            .add(new DirectoryProperty(properties.size(),
                                                       data, offset));
                        break;
                    case PropertyConstants.DOCUMENT_TYPE :
                        properties.add(new DocumentProperty(properties.size(),
                                                            data, offset));
                        break;
                    case PropertyConstants.ROOT_TYPE :
                        properties.add(new RootProperty(properties.size(),
                                                        data, offset));
                        break;
                    default :
                        properties.add(null);
                        break;
                }
                offset += POIFSConstants.PROPERTY_SIZE;
            }
        }
        return properties;
}

Convert raw data blocks to an array of Property's