How do I extract multiple RAR files into a selected folder?

Question

How do I extract multiple RAR files into a selected folder?

Answer 1

Can you provide more details?

Answer 2

I'm looking into ExtractNow, Extract RAR, and Batch Extract, which purportedly batch extract .RAR files via a GUI interface.

Answer 3

You can download a free version of winrar here: http://bit.ly/1sMdIqr



Winrar is a very good program to unzip files and to decompress a bunch of other formats. You can use also 7zip or winzip for the same purpose but I believe that winrar is the best option. All these programs are very similar (you can compress/decompress files with a simple right click).



The great things is that winrar is free (you can download the trial version that never expires) and it can open all compressed formats: .zip, .rar, .7z / 7zip, .iso, .tar, .jar etc. (much more than the other programs).



That's why I strongly recommend Winrar

Answer 4

you only extract one rar file only which is the first one

Answer 5

have u tried ctrl click on the files and the extract them

Answer 6

Hold down shift, then click the first RAR file, then the last RAR file. It should select all of them. Then right click and choose the extract option. I use a Mac so don't count on me 100%.

Answer 7

You can use a batch file to do the task. I copied the following batch file that appears in the web page of Computing Tidbits titled "Using the WinRAR Command-line tools in Windows"

It reads:



"Two batch file examples are provided. The first compresses all files in a folder or a folder and its subfolders, with the option to compress the files into a single archive or individually. The second batch file decompresses all .rar files from a folder and places the extracted files into another directory. Be sure to change the extension(s) to .bat before using either file. Both of the following batch files temporarily set the Windows path environment variable for the WinRAR folder when executed."



Please visit their page for a thourough explanation of how it wroks



I copied the contents of the second batch file. You can copy the text to a .bat text file and execute it.

Copy from the following line to the end

@echo off



REM uncompress_rar.bat



REM This uncompresses .rar archives in a folder specified by the user, extracts files to

the extracted folder and moves the processed archive to the completed folder



setlocal



REM Specify the folder to uncompress below:

REM -------------------------------- Compressed file folder_----------------------------

set dirA=C:\folder_to_uncompress

REM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------





REM Specify the extracted files folder below:

REM -------------------------------- Folder to extract to-------------------------------

set dirE=C:\Extractedfiles\

REM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------





REM Specify where to move processed archives below. This folder must exist:

REM -------------------------------- Processed folder-----------------------------------

set dirC=C:\Processed\

REM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------





REM change to directory

cd %dirA%



REM Path to WinRAR executable in Program Files

set path="C:\Program Files\WinRAR\";%path%





echo.

echo All files in %dirA% to be uncompressed

echo.





echo.



FOR %%i IN (*.rar) do (

unrar e "%%~ni.rar" "%dirE%"

move "%%~ni.rar" "%dirC%"

echo completed uncompressing "%%i" and moved archives or archive to "%dirC%"

)

goto eof



:eof



endlocal



echo.

echo "Task Completed"

echo.



@pause