gHacks technology news » archiver http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:35:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Free Winrar 3.62 License http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/03/free-winrar-362-license/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/03/free-winrar-362-license/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 22:21:45 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3991 German computer magazine PC Welt (PC World) is running a promotion in their newest issue which was just released in Germany. They are providing their readers with a free license key to Winrar 3.62 which can be used with the German and English edition of Winrar. Winrar 3.62 is obviously not the latest version of Winrar, that would be 3.71 by the way, but it is sufficient for all your unpacking needs.

Interested users can also use the offer to update to the newest version of Winrar at a discount. If you are interested in the offer visit the promotional Winrar website. The website is written in German, all you need to to is fill out the form and the license key will be send to your email. Here is the translation of the fields: Vorname (First Name), Nachname (Last Name), E-Mail-Adresse (E-Mail), E-Mail bestätigen: (E-Mail again) and Land (Country).

Select Anderes Land in the pulldown menu if you are not living in one of the mentioned countries. A click on Abschicken (send) completes the process and you should receive a link to the key in your email. The link to the key is the second link in the email that contains download.php while the first link would lead to the special offer page that would offer a discount for the latest Winrar version.

A click on “Download des Lizenzschlüssels” downloads the key to your computer. Download Winrar 3.62, for example from Download Junction and install it on your system. Now unpack the contents of the archive that you have downloaded into the Winrar folder. The key will be automatically recognized by Winrar and you got a licensed version.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/03/free-winrar-362-license/feed/ 20 Extract archives from multiple folders at once http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/23/extract-archives-from-multiple-folders-at-once/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/23/extract-archives-from-multiple-folders-at-once/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:51:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/23/extract-archives-from-multiple-folders-at-once/ I received some very nice responses in my last Ask The Readers article that was asking the readers for a way to extract archives – including multi part ones – that would reside in different folders in one go. The archiver that I was using was able to handle all archives in one directory but not in multiple directories.

Extract Now was mentioned in the comments. I did write about it earlier actually but forgot completely that it would have that feature. As the name suggests its main purpose is to extract archives and since I do not pack files regularly I decided to make this my main application to handle archives. Extract Now supports many major file types such as zip, rar, 7z, iso and img, all in all 17 file types are supported.

Two ways are provided to communicate with the program. The main interface supports drag and drop which is probably one of the coolest features in an archiver that I have seen for a long time. Just drop a folder into the interface and Extract Now will scan it plus all subfolders for supported file types. The files will then be added and can be extracted automatically.

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Several options can be configured that customize the output like retaining the archive folder structure or to extract archives into their own name folder.

Extract Now can also be added to the right-click context menu to extract files this way. This comes in handy if you want to extract just one file and not multiple ones. I have to admit that I’m so impressed by Extract Now that I made the switch from IZarc to it.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/23/extract-archives-from-multiple-folders-at-once/feed/ 0 Extract several archives with multiple volumes at once http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/26/extract-several-archives-with-multiple-volumes-at-once/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/26/extract-several-archives-with-multiple-volumes-at-once/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:23:40 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/26/extract-several-archives-with-multiple-volumes-at-once/ 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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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/26/extract-several-archives-with-multiple-volumes-at-once/feed/ 7 Extract Now http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/29/extract-now/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/29/extract-now/#comments Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:00:23 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/29/extract-now/ The article about working with multiple rar files at once was highly productive if you consider that I was able to write two more articles from links that have been posted in the comments of it. Extract Now is a software that has one main purpose and that is to extract multiple files at once.

The feature that sticks out is that it processes subdirectories automatically as well. If you like your downloads ordered, like Anonymoose who mentioned the software, you could have many rar – or other formats such as zip – files in different folders on your hard drive. Just drag the main folder into Extract Now and it will do all the rest automatically for you.

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Besides the obvious drag and drop support it also integrates nicely in your Windows Explorer giving you options to extract files by right-clicking them.

I said earlier that the most used formats like zip, rar and gz are supported as well as image formats such as iso and img. You still need a software that is able to zip software which means this tool is basically for those who work a lot with files that they have to extract.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/29/extract-now/feed/ 2 How to extract multiple independent rar files http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/28/how-to-extract-multiple-independent-rar-files/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/28/how-to-extract-multiple-independent-rar-files/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:03:04 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/28/how-to-extract-multiple-independent-rar-files/ 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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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/28/how-to-extract-multiple-independent-rar-files/feed/ 3 IZArc a great universal archiv software http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/izarc-a-great-universal-archiv-software/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/izarc-a-great-universal-archiv-software/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:08:52 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/izarc-a-great-universal-archiv-software/ If you are looking for a universal archiv software other than 7-zip you should take a closer look at IZArc which lately replaced WinRar on my computer. The real beauty of IZArc is of course it’s support of most known archiv formats such as zip, rar, 7-zip, gz, ace, tar and dozens others including formats such as iso, bin and nrg.

What I really like about IZArc is that it opens really quickly and seems to unpack files at least as fast as WinRar. I did not benchmark anything here so this is just my opinion. IZArc offers all the usual features that archive programs offer these days such as shell integration, drag and drop support, self-extracting archives and multi-volume archives.

IZArc can also be downloaded as a mobile version called IZArc2Go and a command line add-on for the main program that supports batch processing is also available at the official website. I don’t think the users that already use 7-zip will make the switch because of their program offering basically the same features.

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A unique feature is the manual rebuild functionality which lets you make all the changes you need to do to an archive before the archive itself is rebuild. If you are looking for a winzip alternative try muzip.

[tags]packer, unzip, winzip, muzip, winrar, compression, compress, backup[/tags]

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/02/08/freeware-packer-muzip/feed/ 3 Freeware 7-Zip Packer http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/20/freeware-7-zip-packer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/20/freeware-7-zip-packer/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:26:00 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=157 If you are looking for an alternative to the windows xp build in unpacker you might want to take a look at 7-Zip. I was always looking for an unpacker besides the big two Winrar and Winzip who are both not free, after some researching I found 7-Zip which handles the most used file formats like zip and rar without problems.

Head over to 7-zip.org do download this excellent freeware.

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