Extracting Files from an Archive

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New users: For introductory information, please see the section Brief Tutorial - Extracting Files.

This section describes the Extract dialog box. There are other ways to extract files from an archive:

• The Drag and Drop interface
  
• Directly from My Computer or the Windows Explorer, as described in the section Windows 95/98/NT Shell Integration Examples
  
• If a Zip file contains a “setup” or “install” program, you can use the Install Feature to automatically extract the files, run the installation program, and clean up temporary files.

The Extract dialog box:

Use the Extract button on the toolbar or select Extract from the Actions menu to display the Extract dialog box. Use the Extract dialog box to extract or “unzip” files from the open archive to your disk.

EasyZip extracts files from the archive to the folder specified in the Extract to field. You can specify this folder in one of four ways:

• Select a folder and drive in the Folders/Drives list boxes.
  
• Type a folder name in the Extract to field.
  
• Pull down the Extract to combo box and select a folder from the list of previous Extract to folders.

• Press the New folder... button and create a folder.
  

The Extract dialog box provides the following options:

• The Selected files option button instructs EasyZip to extract only files that are selected in the main EasyZip window. You can use conventional file selection methods to choose files. This option is disabled if no files are selected.
  
• The All files option button instructs EasyZip to extract all files from the archive.

• The Files option button and edit field allow you to specify which files are extracted using filenames (standard Windows wildcards are accepted, so you could use “*.doc” to extract all .doc files)
  
• The Overwrite existing files check box determines whether you are prompted before existing files are overwritten with files from the archive.
  
• The Skip older files check box determines whether EasyZip skips (does not extract) existing files when the date/time stamps of the file in the archive is older than the file on disk.
  
• The New folder button activates the Create Folder dialog box. Note that 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 the Extract dialog box and press the Extract button.

Note: You can change the default Extract to folder using the Configuration | Folders dialog box.

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