{"id":21701,"date":"2018-10-18T06:20:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T05:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=21701"},"modified":"2018-10-18T06:20:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T05:20:38","slug":"how-to-extract-multiple-zip-files-to-a-single-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/10\/18\/how-to-extract-multiple-zip-files-to-a-single-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"How to extract multiple zip files to a single folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s surprisingly difficult to discover the right settings in .ZIP-file handling software to extract multiple .ZIP files into a single subfolder.  Without making multiple subfolders <em>within<\/em> that new folder, one for each .ZIP file. That latter arrangement is not so good&#8230; if you have scans of 10 journals in 10 .ZIP files and want to visually pick out just five images from their combined 800 pages.<\/p>\n<p>The popular 7-zip for Windows has what appear to be the right settings (&#8220;No pathnames&#8221;), but fails to respect this.  I tried multiple configurations, but 7-zip always extracted each .ZIP  into its own subfolder regardless.  <\/p>\n<p>The solution is <a href=\"https:\/\/rarlab.com\/download.htm\">WinRAR<\/a>.  Use its &#8220;Do not extract paths&#8221; setting when extracting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2018\/10\/winrar-paths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2018\/10\/winrar-paths.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"464\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-21702\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s surprisingly difficult to discover the right settings in .ZIP-file handling software to extract multiple .ZIP files into a single &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/10\/18\/how-to-extract-multiple-zip-files-to-a-single-folder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurn-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}