ARCHIVED: In WinZip, how do I unzip files?
You can choose one of three ways to unzip an archive (a compressed file or set of files) in WinZip.
Note: The following information is taken from the
WinZip help files. To access the help files from within WinZip,
from the F1
.
On this page:
The Extract dialog box
In WinZip, open the archive. To display the Extract
dialog box, click on the toolbar, or, from
the menu, select . Use the
Extract
dialog box to extract or unzip files from the
open archive to your disk.
WinZip extracts files from the archive to the folder specified in the
"Extract to:" field. You can specify this folder in one of four ways
from the Extract
dialog box:
- Select a folder and drive in the "Folders/drives" area on the
right side of the
Extract
dialog box. - Type a folder name in the "Extract to:" field.
- Click the arrow next to the "Extract to:" field and select a folder from the list of folders you have used previously when extracting files.
- Click to create a folder.
The Extract
dialog box provides the following options
for handling the files you are extracting:
- The radio button instructs WinZip to extract only files that are selected in the main WinZip window. You can use conventional file selection methods to choose files. This option is disabled if no files are selected.
- The radio button instructs WinZip to extract all files from the archive.
- The
*.doc
, for example, to extract all files ending in.doc
. radio button and text field allow you to
specify which files are extracted using filenames. Standard Windows
wildcards are accepted, so you could use - The checkbox determines whether you are prompted before existing files are overwritten with files from the archive.
- The checkbox determines whether WinZip skips (does not extract) existing files when the file in the archive is older than the file on disk.
- The
For example, suppose the folder to which files are extracted is
c:\temp
. If the option is checked, the filemydir\filename
would be extracted to the folderc:\temp\mydir
. If the option is not checked, it would be extracted to the folderc:\temp
. checkbox determines whether WinZip
will use any folder names (also known as path names) that are stored
in the archive. You will probably want to check this option for most
extract operations. If this option is checked, any folder names (and
thus any file structure) in the archive will be retained when the
files are extracted. If it's not checked, all files will be extracted
to the same folder, regardless of any folder names in the archive.
- The
Create Folder
dialog box. You can extract files and create a folder without this dialog box. Simply type the name of the new folder in the "Extract to:" field of theExtract
dialog box and click . button activates the
Note: You can change the default folder to which files are extracted. From the
menu, select and select the tab. Under "Extract folder", type the folder name you prefer into the "Folder:" field and click .The Drag and Drop Interface
You can drag and drop files from WinZip to other applications, My
Computer or Windows Explorer, the desktop, printers, and
shortcuts. If you drop files onto a folder listed in My Computer or
Windows Explorer, the files are extracted to that folder. If you drop
files onto the desktop, the files are extracted to the desktop folder.
If you drop files onto a printer, the files are printed. If you drop
files onto an application or a shortcut, the files are extracted to
the temp
folder before the files are passed to the
application, and are removed when the archive is closed.
Note: Different applications handle dropped files in different ways. For example, when you drop a file onto the WordPad application distributed as part of Windows, it will embed the file as an OLE object, but when you drop a file onto the Notepad application distributed as part of Windows, it will open the file. You may need to experiment with drag and drop to understand how each application reacts to a file dropped on it.
You can also move or copy files from one archive to another by opening multiple copies of WinZip, one for each archive, and dragging files from one to the other.
In Explorer
To extract all files in a WinZip archive without leaving Explorer, use the right mouse button to drag and drop the archive from an Explorer window to any folder, and then choose
from the context menu.
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Last modified on 2018-01-18 12:34:26.