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How to properly extract files from an archive. How to unzip a file in simple ways

Now let's perform the reverse operation - extract files, or documents, a program, a game - in general, we don't care what is there!

The only thing that cannot be done is to extract the files from the damaged WinRAR archive.

Open any WinRAR archive. I'll take the old version of my site, which is stored in the WinRAR archive, just in case - anything can happen with technology!

We do not need to extract the entire archive, but only certain files. This indicates that when the archive was created, it was created from a folder.

We find our folder that we want to extract from the archive, my folder is SAMSUNG_SCX-4200. By clicking on the line, it becomes of blue color. Next, press the extract button at the top.

A new window opens where you need to specify the path where our folder will be extracted.

I specified the path to the "D" drive. We look - here is our extracted folder from the archive - SAMSUNG_SCX-4200.

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IN modern world every computer user at least once, but faced with files packed into an archive. They are convenient to send via the Internet, store various information(documents, photos and videos) because it takes up less space.

Archives are something like a container that stores files compressed according to a certain algorithm. They are created by special archiving programs. But in addition to creating, such programs are also able to unpack them. They understand many different formats, so extracting a file from an archive will work if it is saved in one of the popular ones: * .rar, *.zip, *.7z, *.tar, *exe or any less popular format.

On our site you can find an article describing free archivers: free archivers for Windows in Russian. Among them there are such popular ones as: 7-Zip, FreeArc, HaoZip, IZArc and others. Nearly all are integrated into Windows Explorer, so to extract files, just right-click on the archive and select the appropriate item. There will be several of them: "Extract to" - you yourself specify the desired folder, "Extract to Current"– the files will be saved on the same path where the archive is located, "Open in [name of the archiver]"- the program window will open, where you can go into the archive and get out of it only required files.

If you choose something from the list of programs, you can not only extract files from archives, but also create them yourself, encrypt, set passwords, create self-extracting ones, and many different functions will be available.

For those who are more likely to deal with archives, for example, for work or study, and do not want to take up disk space with utilities, of all the functions of which only one will be used, there is another option - these are programs for unpacking archives. Among their main advantages, the following can be distinguished: they take up little space, have a limited set of functions, are easy to use, and understand a lot of formats. Let's take a brief look at them here.

Universal Extractor

Universal Extractor - using this program, you can unpack the archive of the format: .7z, .rar, .exe, arc, .bz2, .tbz2, .tar.bz2, .deb, gz, .tgz, .tar.gz, .iso, lzh, .lzma, .pea, .msi, . wim, .msm, .xz, .jar and others. Follow the link above and in the article you will find detailed description how to use it and download link.

There is a version for installation on a computer, and there is portable version, which will not make any changes to the operating system. Russian language is supported for the interface, knows how to extract files from a self-extracting archive. It can also be used to extract individual files from the archive. There are very few settings, which will not distract you from the main task.

The interface is extremely simple. There are only two fields here: in the first, specify the path to the archive, in the second - the path to the folder where the files will be extracted. Click "OK" and wait for the process to complete. She works very fast.

ExtractNow

ExtractNow is another free unpacker, you can download it from the link below. Can open the following formats: zip, rar, iso, bin, img, ima, imz, jar, gz, lzh, lha and sit. There is no Russian language for the interface, and this is a disadvantage, since you can select various parameters in the program. You can also specify in the settings if you want to add the utility to the context menu.

You can add files to the main window by simply dragging and dropping the mouse from Explorer or from the Desktop. The advantage is that you can add several archives at once, and then start unpacking them.

The program can search for archives in the specified directory - click on an empty area of the main window, select a folder and wait until all archived files are found.

Choose either an archiver program if you plan to create archives yourself in the future, or one of the described programs that will easily help you extract files from an archive.

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How extract files from archive, perhaps users who have never used archivers will ask. Or they got an archive with which they don’t know what to do.

What is the archive for? An archive is needed to pack several files into one archived file. It's like multiple items in one package. For example, it is convenient to transfer such an archive to another person than to send each file separately, be it documents or music files, photos. The archive also allows you to compress the size of the files when archiving. You can also create an archive with a password so that only the recipient can view the contents knowing the password to the archive.

Today I'll tell you how extract files from the archive. Very often when downloading files from the Internet, we get archived files. If you do not have an archiver installed, download the WinRAR archiver from the Internet and install it on your computer. In the future, more than once will have to work with this program.

An example of how to visually recognize an archive created by the WinRAR program can be seen in the picture:

So, to unpack the archive, you need to click on the archive itself right click mouse and select "Extract Files" from the menu.

Next, in the appeared window "Path and extraction options", select which folder to unzip and click "OK".

I chose, as you can see in the picture, extract the archive to the desktop. And after extracting the archive, a regular folder with the same name as the archive will appear on the desktop.

To extract files from an archive:

Open archive - Press the Open button and find and highlight the desired archive file and click OK.

Select the desired files in the archive that you want to extract and click the Extract button.

The Extract dialog box will open, in which select the folder where the extracted files will be placed (or create a new one - the New Folders button) and click the Extract button in this window.

Assigning unpacking options in the Extract dialog box.

Skip older files - allows you to avoid overwriting new files with older ones;

Overwrite existing files - makes it possible to write extractable files over files of the same name;

Use folder files - allows you to create folders for unpacked files with the names in which they were before packing.

They also use Drag-and-Drop technology to extract files from an archive. To do this, select the necessary files in the archive and drag them to the desired folder with the mouse.

Viewing the contents of a file

To view the contents of a file, select the file and click the View button.

Viewing methods:

the editor with which this file was created (string Associated program);

Deleting files from an archive

To delete a file from the archive, select this file and display its context menu, in which select the Delete command and select the deletion mode in the window that opens: Entere Archive - all files in this archive, Selectid Files - selected files, Files - files specified by the mask.

Creating a self-extracting archive

WinZip does not create a self-extracting archive, but converts an already created archive file into a self-extracting archive (exe file).

To do this, open the archive, select from the menu Actions- Make. Exe. In the WinZip Self-Extractor window that opens, in the first line you can specify or search for another archive (Browse button) that you want to convert. In the second line write the address where you will place the converted archive or use the default address of your machine. Then press the OK button. A new dialog box will open, in which click the button unzip to create this self-extracting archive and then close the dialog boxes with the button Clouse.

Creating a multi-volume archive

Multi-volume archives are needed when the archive does not fit on one floppy disk. WinZip knows how to cut an archive into parts as well as others. A multi-volume archive is created in the same way as a regular one, only in the Add window there is a Multiple disk Spanning list (separation into several volumes) and it is available only when the archive is created on a floppy disk.

Split modes for multiple volumes:

Automatic - as one disk is full, it will require the next;

Automatic + wipe first disk prompt - before starting archiving, you will be prompted to erase some files from the floppy disk, and then just like in Automatic mode;

No spanning - there will be no spanning, and when the diskette is full, a message will be displayed about the diskette being full (Disk full).

DOS RAR programs by Ukrainian programmer Yevgeny Roshalo have been well known for many years in the country and around the world. WinRAR is an improved version of the RAR archiver, equipped with a convenient graphical shell.

WinRAR creates archives not only of its own type (with rar extension), but also zip. But it can also extract files from ARJ, CAB, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE format archives, and can view the contents of these files. And for the arj, cab, lzh files, the archivers themselves are not even required.

In terms of file compression, WinRAR is significantly superior to WinZip, and in most cases even ARJ. WinRAR is able to work at different speeds, but both are not yet achievable at the same time.

The program works not only in a Windows window, but also from the command line, like a regular DOS archiver.

WinRAR can create multi-volume self-extracting archives and multi-volume self-extracting archives.

Thus, WinRAR is a powerful flexible tool with a wide range of functions, practically in no way inferior to WinZip, and often ahead of it.

The menu and help system are presented in Russian. Therefore, the purpose of the structural elements of the archiver window is clear (they are visible in the figure below) and it makes no sense to consider their purpose. The only thing I want to add is that the toolbar buttons change depending on where you are: one in the archive, another outside it.

Basic operations with archives

Creating a new archive

To create an archive, select the files that will be included in the archive, and then click the button Add. In the dialog box that opens, enter the address of the archive location (use the button Overview) and enter the name of the archive to be created (in the Archive line). Set the archiving parameters: archive format (RAR or ZIP), compression method (Normal, Good, Maximum, Fast, Fast), update method (Add with file replacement, Add with file update, Update existing files, Synchronize archive contents).

Adding files to an archive

To add files to the archive, select them and click the button Add, then in the window that opens, install the desired archive into which we add files (the Browse button) and click the OK button.

Deleting files from an archive

To delete files from an archive, you need to open this archive, select the files to be deleted and click the button Delete on the toolbar.

Creating a multi-volume archive

Creating a multi-volume archive is done in the same way as a new one, but the volume size is also added to the Volume size line (1457500 for a floppy disk)

Extracting files from an archive

To extract files from an archive, you need to enter this archive and mark the files you want to extract and press the button Extract to put these files in the current folder. To move the selected files to another folder, click the button Extract to.

Converting an archive to self-extracting

To convert an archive into a self-extracting one, you need to open this archive (enter it) and press the SFX button. As a result of this command, an archive file will appear on the disk with the same name as the original archive, but with the EXE extension.

Practical part

Working with the archiverwinzip

Instruction

Sometimes there are problems with unpacking the archive - that the file is corrupted (the file is corrupted). Usually users delete such archives without knowing that they can be tried.

Open WinRar and open the folder containing the damaged archive in the program. Select the archive, and then click on the icon depicting a first aid kit.

The archive recovery window will open. Specify in which folder to save the repaired archive, and check the box for RAR archive type. Click OK - the archive recovery will start.

After the restoration is completed, the archive will be saved with the fixed mark (fixed). You can delete the original corrupted archive, or you can leave it as is, using the new fixed file.

To avoid confusion, replace the old archive with the new one in the original folder, and then try extracting the files to the current folder again.

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Archives with the .zip extension are used quite often. It is convenient to store files in a compressed form in them - so they take up less space. Often archiving programs are used to prepare files for transmission by e-mail. In order to open or unpack a .zip archive, it is important that a program for archiving and unpacking files with the .zip extension is installed on the computer, and then only a few mouse clicks are required.

Instruction

There are several ways to unzip the .zip archive. If you want to extract all the files contained in the archive, you need to right-click on the archive icon. Select the required command from the list of commands in the drop-down menu.

The "Extract Files" command will open the "Extraction Path and Options" window. In this window, you must specify the path to the folder where the files will be unpacked. The directory has a tree structure. Moving through the branches, you should select an existing folder or create a new one by clicking on the " new folder". Having decided on the location to save the files, you should click on the "OK" button.

The "Extract to current folder" command means that the files will be extracted to the same folder where . For example, if the .zip archive is on the desktop, the files will be extracted to the desktop. They will be saved without creating a new folder.

"Extract to" command<название.zip-архива>" will allow you to unpack the files to the same folder as the archive, but they will be placed in a folder with the same name as the archive name.

If you click on a .zip archive with the left mouse button, a window will open with the contents of the archive. From it, you can unpack all files at once or extract only the files you need. To do this, select the files contained in the archive and click the "Extract" button. The same window will open as in step #2 (“Extraction Path and Options”). Also, the window for saving files can be called up by selecting the “Commands” item in the top menu bar, select the “Extract to the specified folder” item in the drop-down menu.

Also, files from a .zip archive can be extracted in another way. To do this, open the archive in the manner indicated in step number 5, select the desired files and, holding the left mouse button pressed, simply drag the files to the desired folder. It doesn't matter if the folder where files are copied from the archive is open or closed.

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Hardly anyone will shake out the entire contents of the closet on the floor if you need to get one T-shirt. This idea is also true when working with archives. There is no need to unpack all the contents if the archiver program allows you to selectively extract the files you need.

You will need

- WinRAR program;
- archive.

Instruction

Load the archive from which you are going to extract some files into the WinRAR program. To do this, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+O. With the same success, you can use the "Open archive" command from the "File" menu. There is another option to do the same: select in the drop-down list, which is located under the main menu of the program window, the disk on which the desired archive is located. In this case, the program window will display the contents of the disk. Select the folder where the archive is located and double-click on it with the left mouse button. You can make it even easier: open the folder in the explorer that contains the archive and double-click on it with the left mouse button.

View the contents of the archive, fortunately, the WinRAR program provides such an opportunity. To do this, right-click on the archive file in the program window. In the opened context menu select the "View File" option. You can use the keyboard shortcut Alt + V, after selecting the file with the archive. To get the same result, the View button, which is located directly below the main menu, or the View File command from the Commands menu, is a good choice.

Select the files you are going to extract from the archive. To select several files at once, click on them with the left mouse button while holding down the Ctrl key. If you need to highlight immediately a large number of files, left-click on the top one, click Shift key and click on the latest file.

Extract the selected files from the archive. To do this, click on the "Extract" button located under the main menu of the program. The same will happen if you press the key combination Alt + E, or use the "Extract to the specified folder" command from the "Commands" menu. In the file extraction settings window that opens, specify the folder where the selected files from the archive will be unpacked and click the OK button .

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Almost any owner mobile phone, even quite inexpensive, has several fun games on it that serve as entertainment anywhere and anytime. In addition, many people like to read their favorite books or necessary textbooks on the phone while riding the subway or bus. All this is done using jar files on the phone. To use this format, you need to know how to properly download and open it on your phone.

Instruction

So, to run this type of file on your , do the following. First, make sure that of the two application files on your computer, jad and jar, you choose the last one and download it. Place this file in a folder on your phone called "Others" or "Others". The jar file for, namely, place in a special folder "Installation files".

Next, disconnect the phone from the computer and go to the folder on the device itself that contains the necessary file. Select it, enter the menu and click "Open". The phone will then launch the application installer. You may be offered the option to install in the Applications or Games folder, or choose the location of the application itself - in the phone's memory or on a removable memory card. In this situation, it is better to stop the memory, since the memory of the phone itself is best kept as free as possible. In addition, you will be able to use the installed applications even after changing your phone.

After that, go to the folder specified during the installation process and check if it works installed application. Launch the game or other service application and make sure that it works properly: it doesn’t freeze, doesn’t slow down, and doesn’t require additional components installation. After a successful check, proceed to the next step.

If you're using a regular phone, then you probably won't need to delete the original jar file on your phone. Just go to the folder where it was previously and make sure it's empty. Smartphones usually save setup files, so if you are sure that you will no longer need it, go to the required folder and manually delete the jar file.

As you can see, opening the jar format in your phone is quite simple: just follow the phone's instructions and do not forget that you can only download files of this type from trusted and high-quality resources.

jar files are executable files which are written in java language and work in the operating room Windows system using Java Runtime. This abbreviation stands for Java Archive File - Java archive file. Typically, such files are mini-programs for various mobile devices.