Thread: UnRAR hundreds of rar files from different folders, SIMULTANEOUSLY...

Alright so I'm under the impression that not enough people know about this.
It's quite simple, but can potentially save people hours of right clicking and unraring :001_tongue:

Heres an example:
Assume you just downloaded a humongous 5 zillion gig movie pack.
Excited to watch a movie you go to the movie folder.
To your dismay you see a buncha rar files.
You go to the next movie folder and great, more rar files.
How do you fix this with just a couple clicks??

First open up WinRAR archiver.
Should look something like this.


Within WinRAR, navigate to the folder filled with the folders that contain rar files.
Hit Ctrl+A to select all, or select the folders that contain the files you want to unrar.
Now right click, and hit Extract to the specified folder.





It will now Search for archive files within all the folders you selected.


Next the dialog box seen below will pop up.
Choose where you want all the nice and simple files to go (your rar-free haven)



I chose C:\BIG PACK but you can choose anything. The default is a folder within the main folder.
So if the movie pack you downloaded is Angelina.Jolie.Collection.DVDRip.XviD then it will make another folder within that folder with the same name and put all the .avi, .mkv, .iso etc files inside the rar into that folder.

Now just hit OK and let it work. Depending on the size it could take a few seconds or a few DAYS lol.

Once it's done navigate to the "specified" folder and voila all your movies files are there waiting to be viewed :laugh:

Hope this helps someone!!
Let me know if it did.

Also if you wanna get rid of the remaining RAR files quickly then check out my SplitRAR deleting solution. :001_smile:

I thought this was common knowledge :D

Great Effort though ...

thanks for this, might come in handy to someone. But like Medschool said, common knowledge.

another option wud be to use dziobas rar player to watch the movies without unpacking...so tht the orig files can be used for furthur seeding

any kind of recursive file operation could also be done via terminal. much better control but it's not just clicking :001_tongue:

Yeah, common knowledge but im sure at least 1/2 if not more of the winrar-using population doesn't know how to do this, lol.
Terminal is great but again this is for people which common knowledge may not apply. :001_tongue: