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Unzip, unrar all files in all folders

I have folder, with subfolders, each subfolder have bunch of zip and rar files. How to unzip/unrar all this files and then delete zip/rar files. I'd like any GUI software, no DOS. Thanks for help!

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frize🇩🇿

try with Zip or Rar , so select all the Folder then click on unzip normally the Zip can detect if a folder has subfolders , it can can ask you if you want to unzip all folder and its subfolders .

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I would suggest stuffit expander. You just drag a folder or file/files to a window and then it unstuffs them to the directory which the original archive was in, set the DELETE AFTER EXPANDING option if you want to delet the orginal archive after expanding
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amr12000

you can use a program called winrar you will find it www.download.com

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amr12000 - I always used winrar, but it's doesn't have future of batch extracting in folders and subfolders!

Trying to figure out how to use stuffit now, very complecated. I'll let you know results

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Ok, Stuffit, tried 2 versions - standart and deluxe. When I'm drog and drop folder even with one archive it's giving me an error something about folder that it's not supported. Please help

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Quaraxkad - thank you for help, GUI working great with rar files, this is exactly what i need, but this utility is not supporting zip files. Is there any plugins or addons for zip files?

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Hmm... I thought it did support ZIP files... But, you can use WinRAR to convert all zip's to rar's first, then run RarSlave! Just open WinRAR and press Alt+Q.

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Then I'm going to have to open each subfolder with zip files, and I have 50/50 rar and zip files. Bad idea, any other suggestions?

Quaraxkad🇺🇸

If you don't mind using the command line, you can do all the extracting and deleting with WinRAR.

Try this... winrar x -r "c:\test\*.*" *.* c:\target\"
That will extract all archives under the "test" folder, and store the files in the "target" folder. If you want to extract the files into the same folder that the archive itself is in, I haven't figured that out yet...

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Using winrar x -r "c:\test\*.*" *.* c:\target\ I'm getting error and it's not working on all subfolders for some reason.

Anyway, I would accept any solution for my problem, Command line or GUI, I just can't find it anywere. Could anyone help.

Looks like rar files working with http://www.newsleecher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2570
need same thing for zip files, please

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Quaraxkad🇺🇸

There are a few other programs in that forum that could work on ZIP files... Try this one: http://www.newsleecher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5624

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Nevermind about DownloadScan... It only works when there are PAR files available also.

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hm :o(

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How deep do these subfolders go? I just did a little testing with the Convert tool in WinRAR. When you click the "Add" button to add a directory, it allows you to select more than one folder to add at once. Also, if you run WinRAR, browse to the folder containing the archives, select it, and THEN press Alt+Q, it seems to load up all subfolders automatically for conversion!

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And I've found yet another idea! Browse to the folder with your archives in WinRAR, right click it, and select "Extract To The Specified Folder". That also seems to be recursive, but I think all files will go to the same target folder, unless you specify to create a folder for each archive ("Extract Archives To Subfolders").

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extract to - not good, extracting everything in one folder. Converting zip in subfolders did the trick ! I tested twise. First time converted and then used rarslave. Worked just fine. Second time converted other zip files to rar and for some rison rarslave is not detecting them as rar files.

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I guess no easy solution for zip, Thank you Quaraxkad

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