Extracting multiple independent rar files did take some time in the past until I found out how to do this with just a few clicks of the mouse. The rar files should be in the same directory for this method. Just mark all rar files, right-click the marked area and select to uninstall all files in this location.
The name of the command is different depending on the application that you use to unrar files normally. My packer IZArc has its own entry in the right-click menu and I can select Extract Here from the personal menu to extract all rar files that I have selected.
It took a while until I stumbled upon this method. Before that I really extracted every rar file on its own which takes a while if you have dozens of independent rar files on your computer. I thought I share this method even though I might be the last person on earth that found it.
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IZArc’s function is nice, it’s found in other packages too but does mean rar files have to be in the same directory. If you work with a lot of files that need unpacking and prefer to keep things nicely organised as you download, you might find ExtractNow more useful – it’s a great bit of freeware designed exclusively for unpacking multiple archives.
http://www.extractnow.com/
You can just drag a top level folder to it and have all subdirectories added, or use explorer integration. I can’t live without it :)
If you ever need a much more general solution to this kind of problem, you might check out a program I wrote a while ago called “Drag and Drop Robot”: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/dragdrop/index.html
It’s basically a tool for letting you drag and drop a tons of files and peform a batch operation on them. There is a video on the page showing how its used for extracting, but you could use it for all kinds of things like this.
Warning: it seems to be a bit confusing for people to learn how to use :)
-mouser (jesse)
I have archieved a password protected RAR file in side another RAR File.both have different passwords so please tell me hw can i extract my data back..