[SOLVED] Extracting a .rar file into it's own folder

[VagaSeed]

So I've got over 12,000 .rar files each containing their own amount of images. Obviously I could go through one by one extracted each .rar into it's own folder but that'd take forever. I was wondering if there was a way to extract all of them at once into their own individual folders.

 

[PC Tailor]

Welcome to the forums my friend!

Easy solution using 7-Zip (which is free of course), 7-Zip can extract rar files, just can't create them:

1. Download and install 7-Zip
2. Highlight ALL of your zip/rar files
3. Right click > 7-Zip
4. Click "Extract to "*\"

This will unzip all of the folders into their uncompressed folders, with all of the files within them.

 

[britechguy]

No, but it's simple enough to write a command prompt batch file or PowerShell ps1 equivalent that would go through all of the files with the .rar extension in a given folder and decompress them with the utility of your choosing.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows+for+each+file+in+a+folder+do+something

 

[britechguy]

I was thinking of 7-Zip as the utility to use, too.

However, I did not realize you could do all RAR files in a folder using the "select all" method. Certainly worth a try!

 

[PC Tailor]

I was thinking of 7-Zip as the utility to use, too.

However, I did not realize you could do all RAR files in a folder using the "select all" method. Certainly worth a try!

You can - just re-tested it myself to sanity check!

 

[VagaSeed]

Thank you so much! This was really quick.