I recently downloaded 24 files that have been split into multiple rar files. Each of the 24 files began with x.rar and ended at x.r24 with x being a number between 1 and 24. I did not want to right-click all 24 files one by one and select Extract Here from the menu because this meant a lot of work. I had to stay at the computer all the time as well to initiate the next process.
I knew that it was possible to mark more than one file and extract it at once using the right-click menu function but I did not know how to handle archives with multiple volumes. The obvious way to handle those files would be to mark them all and extract them but this did not work because only the first volume of an archive has to be selected to unpack it.
My first test brought the correct result though. I marked all the 24 rar files (change that to zip or whatever format you are dealing with) and right-clicked one of them. I then selected Extract Here like I would when extracting single archives and all the 24 rar files where extracted at once.
This is in my opinion a great time saver and will hopefully help at least some users who were facing the same problem.
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In my experience, files with such numbered sequence are linked. Extracting the main .rar file extracts from all the files.
I’m talking about multiple rars, something like x1.rar, x1.r00, x1.r01, x2.rar, x2.r00, x3.rar, x3.r00, x4.rar and so on
Marin, I agree with African Boy, you only need to decompress the first one (in your example x1.rar). It has always worked for me.
African Boy and ismaelj: you are not right, because there is no problem with x.rar, x.r01, x.r02, but with x.rar, .., and then with x2.rar, x3.rar, so there are not only multiple extensions, but also multiple file names.
Thank you Martin, your solution works perfectly with winrar :)
you can maybe, class your files with type you’ll have all the x?.rar grouped, you select all the .rar files and right click>extract with winrar, (you select only the .rar not the x.r02 x.03 …) that will extract all the archives at once … or by using a software like extract now (http://www.extractnow.com/)
peace
Im having the same problem. I have 11 files starting at name.rar through to name.r09 and the files inside each (that I need) seem to need to be extracted in order. It wont let me extract them individually.
I have made this work before but I cant remember how. Can anyone please help!