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.

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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.

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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.

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If you ever wanted to have a free software that would be able to handle all the different zip formats then you might want to take a look at the open source program called Universal Extractor. Universal Extractor can only be used to extract archives handling this task excellently. It supports a multitude of zip formats including the following popular ones: 7-zip archive, ace archive, arj, gzip, rar, tar and zip archives.

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