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Massive software collection needs unzipping

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bettablue

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I have well over 4000 vintage games and productivity programs stored on my computer. All of them for use on my IBM 5150. I rebuilt a nice Compaq computer to make floppies of all of the software I have, but extracting each and every one of these software titles is definitely going to take a serious amount of time. Is there any way to extract the entire collection and place each program into its own folder? I have 2 computers I could do this with. One is my Windows 7 machine, and the other is the forementioned Compaq, running Windows 98. I also have Winzip installed on both computers. Is ther another program I could use to do this massive job?
 
Oh, how sweet is that! I did a search for extracting multiple compressed files and didn't see this one. That will tie up either of my computers for hours, but I'm going for it.

Thanks DOS!
 
That went a lot quicker than I thought. There were some changes to make as far as extracting the compressed files though. WinRar made some definite changes to their program, but it still did the job. Do you think I should put together some sort of instruction template in the forums somewhere? Where in the forums would I post the instructions?
 
If the instructions are "highlight all .zip files, right-click, then pick 'extract each archive to separate folder'", then I don't think you need to write anything :)
 
That's is my point. The instuctions have been updated because of a program update in WinRar. So these don't work any more. It's a bit more complicated than that now. Once you open a folder with several archives, you now have to right click and click on "Select all". Right click again and choose "Extract to specified folder". When the new window pops up, then select the checkbox next to "extract archives to sub folders". There is an option to save your settings near the bottom of the window. That will allow the checkbox to remain selected, but you still have to navigate to the folder you want everything exctraced to.

Hope this helps.
 
bettablue said:
That's is my point. The instuctions have been updated because of a program update in WinRar. So these don't work any more. It's a bit more complicated than that now. Once you open a folder with several archives, you now have to right click and click on "Select all". Right click again and choose "Extract to specified folder". When the new window pops up, then select the checkbox next to "extract archives to sub folders". There is an option to save your settings near the bottom of the window. That will allow the checkbox to remain selected, but you still have to navigate to the folder you want everything exctraced to.

Hope this helps.
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No, instructions for all the archivers are pretty much the same. You select the files, right click, and choose what option you want (extract here, extract to folder, extract to folder using file names, etc. etc.). This works with just about any modern archiver in the past 10 - 15 years, winzip included. Now, back in the good old DOS days w/ PKZIP you had to make each directory yourself. Of course a little batch file programming took care of the redundant work ;).
 
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