Automate archive handling

thymaridas · Post by *thymaridas » 2005-05-18, 10:32 UTC

Suppose I have the following file: C:\Downloads\Test.zip. Is there a way to automate the unpacking of this file so that it automatically creates a new directory with the same name as the archive--C:\Downloads\Test\--and then extracts the files into that directory? Programs like Winzip have this feature available from the context menu.

Sir_SiLvA · Post by *Sir_SiLvA » 2005-05-18, 10:51 UTC

Welcome on Board!

Press ALT+F9 on the Archive
Press Entf
Choose Create Directory for every Archive
Enter

done

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2005-05-18, 11:52 UTC

Press Entf

He means "Del"

thymaridas · Post by *thymaridas » 2005-05-18, 13:48 UTC

Thanks for the help. Is there a way to make this the default behavior?

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2005-05-18, 21:02 UTC

Maybe an external script can help.
If you are interested, i can write an AutoHotkey macro to accomplish that.

thymaridas · Post by *thymaridas » 2005-05-19, 02:00 UTC

SanskritFritz wrote:Maybe an external script can help.
If you are interested, i can write an AutoHotkey macro to accomplish that.

Thanks for the offer, but I don't use AutoHotkey now and don't really want to use it just for this.