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Is there a way of unzipping more than one file at a time, in WinZip or WinRar? In other words, so I can leave it to unzip every file I want it to, without me having to manually click every single zip file. It would be extremely useful, as I am downloading every single EA, EB and EC mesh from SimV (which covers the nearly the whole of Europe and Asia, from Spain, to Japan). And anyone with half a brain would be able to work out that there is a lot of files to download!

I've got a download manager running, which is doing the multiple download job for me (simply called Free Download Manager, I recommend it), but it's unzipping and moving the files out of their respective folders when they are unzipped, that's bothering me!

-Tweek

I use IZArc for my zip utility (also free)
And if you click on one file then while holding "Ctrl" and click on the others it will allow you to unzip as many as you like, also will place each into thier own folder. After selecting which files it is you want to work with use your right click to get your option menu. May work the same with your utility.

WinRar will let you you command line options.  The command line programs are called rar.exe and unrar.exe.  My version of WinZip doesn't have these options.

Create and run this batch file within your Winrar directory and it will create a text file of the command line options:

unrar.exe>commands.txt

With the command line reference you should be able to write another batch file along the lines of:

"C:\Program Files\Winrar\unrar.exe" x "C:\My Download Files\*.zip" "C:\My Download Files\Unzipped"

I strongly suggest you extract the files to a temporary directory and not directly into FS.

Thanks for the help, but I finally found a program which would do this with no hassle whatsoever. All files unzipped to the same folder too I'm now downloading all of the North America mesh. Soon I'll have a nice bumpy world!

Which program did you choose?

Which program did you choose?

UltimateZip. It adds new selections when you right click the files, rather like WinZip, which makes it quick and easy.

Thanks I will check it out!