Ok Something that I should of asked a long time ago haha. So with most of this software as we know comes with multiple zip or rar files. For example. test1.zip test2.zip test3.zip My questions is this, to properly extract them do you extract only the first one(the rest is automatic? ) or do you select all then hit extract(I usually do this and it says replace file sometimes) or do you do each one individually?


I would like to know a definite answer on this lol

cheers!

 

The safest way would be to 'right click' on test1.zip and 'extract to test1'. That way if the zip/rar is corrupt/incomplete you will get an error message.

But I check first how the rar is compiled and if there aren't many sub folders/files I just drag them to my desktop for a better overview. When there are many sub folders/files in the rar, I just make a new folder on my desktop and drag all the folders/files from the rar at once into the folder on my desktop.

You'll also find alot of .rars which are compiled into sub rars. Especially with these kind of rars, a desktop overview comes in handy.

Here's a video of other ways: Youtube

 

Sorry but what do you mean by just "unpack" it after extracting first one?

 

usually double packed, unrar then find the first unrarred rar and unrar that, you should then be able to install and test

 

Unpacking means: getting the files out of the rar (extracting)

 

@ Webshark,







You can also use that method with other 'Archives' Formats as 'WinZip',... , not necessarily only with 'WinRAR'... *yes*

 

great thanks alot so first extract the .rar then the others only AFTER that right?

Thank you!

 

What I do is extract every zip (since most zips aren't linked multi-part). Then I extract the first rar (.rar out of .rar, .r00, .r02, etc). Works most of the time.

 

@ Webshark,

In fact, after having extract (to another place, e.g. a newly created Folder on your Desktop for that purpose) all the 'mini-parts' ('.r00', '.r01', '.r02',.. , '.rar') that are included within an Archive, you must simply find that 'famous' mini-part that contains the 'suffix' : '.rar', and as previously told within my provided snapshots, simply 'Double-Click' on it.
This process will automatically launch the whole decompression of each of these 'mini-parts', and you'll end up with the final Content of your Archive (e.g. a 'Setup.exe' file, or an 'Installer', 'Samples',... , or any other file(s) that have been previously compressed). *yes*

 

It's easy. Select all archives, then extract here (in your foder). WinZip or WinRar, it's the same procedure. Done *yes*

NB: Sometimes with the releases of AiR, you will have archives, which contain other archives .rar. In this case, you choose all the archives, and you extract it here. You'll see that new archives have appeared. You erase the first set of selected, and you extract the second series of archives.

Good Luck buddy