Winrar... right click for power user

[Wolf9999]

Hi guys,
I need help with Winrar.

I have several zip files, containing pdf files and other files.
I would like to find a way, so that when I right click on these zip files, Winrar would show an option to just extract the pdf files.
I don't know if this could be achieved via a profile, or a windows registry hack...
Any ideas?

Thank you!

 

[BIGGDOG]

I am confused. Do you not own WinRar?
When I right click on a RAR or Zip file I am shown three options
1 - Extract Files
2 - Extract Here
3 - Extract into a directory of the file name you are trying to extract

If you do own it or maybe not when you right click on the file what do you see? Maybe the options are different.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Google is your friend.

http://www.sevenforums.com/software...-exclude-specified-files-being-extracted.html

 

[Ketchup]

I have been using WinRAR for years, and the only way I know to extract some files and not others, is to highlight the selected files with the CTRL key and hit extract.

If there are a bunch of small files, I usually just extract the whole thing and delete the folder when I'm done.

 

[lxskllr]

In Thunar(GNU/Linux file manager), you can assign custom actions to the right click context menu to execute virtually any action that can be scripted. If there's a way to do that in Windows, perhaps with a third party utility, the op's task may be doable. I doubt the op will be back unless he wants to use part of his 2 posts per year quota for this topic, but it's interesting in any case if someone can point to a utility that allows creating your own menu.

 

[Ketchup]

...I doubt the op will be back unless he wants to use part of his 2 posts per year quota for this topic...

OK, took me a second, hahaha.

 

[Virgorising]

OK, took me a second, hahaha.

Well, had I not seen this and the heads up post you are responding to, I NEVER would have gotten it.

My premise is, anyone who posts needing help/info, needs help/info.

But, having said that, before I came upon the perspective enhancing above, I thought, well, the Winrar wizard is the best there is! So just use it and open the folder it puts on the desktop and pick only what you want and send the rest to the bin.

I mean, how hard is that?

 

[Wolf9999]

Well, had I not seen this and the heads up post you are responding to, I NEVER would have gotten it.

My premise is, anyone who posts needing help/info, needs help/info.

But, having said that, before I came upon the perspective enhancing above, I thought, well, the Winrar wizard is the best there is! So just use it and open the folder it puts on the desktop and pick only what you want and send the rest to the bin.

I mean, how hard is that?

Hi to everyone.
Of course, I could open the archive and select the files I want to extract.
What I would like to achieve is create one or more right-click options (like you can when creating a profile to create an archive) so that I can extract the file types I want in a breeze.
I contacted the Winrar help desk and they replied that it's not possible with the GUI, just with a command line switch. Too bad!

 

[jolancer]

I did not investigate this, its from winXP, from a diff task than what your asking. but maybe u can use it.

Adding to the Explorer Right Click
- Folder Options
- File Types tab. click File Folder.
- Click Advanced button and then click New.
- In the Action box, type (whatever text you want to appear).
- In the Application used to perform action box, type C:\example.bat
- Click OK

even if not tho, you can just save the command line syntax to a .bat file and just double click it in the same directory as your compressed files. or perhaps very possibly a different application or windows itself may already have the function your looking for built in, unless your specificly not only refering to ".zip" files which you don't need winrar for.

 

[Virgorising]

Hi to everyone.
Of course, I could open the archive and select the files I want to extract.
What I would like to achieve is create one or more right-click options (like you can when creating a profile to create an archive) so that I can extract the file types I want in a breeze.
I contacted the Winrar help desk and they replied that it's not possible with the GUI, just with a command line switch. Too bad!

Thanks for clarifying. I now get you have serious interest in finding a way to do what you want to do, and I respect that. I also respect your interest was serious enough for you to have reached out to Winrar.

So, I hope you find the route you seek to this efficiency!

 

[BIGGDOG]

I must apologize as I did not read your entire post and had assumed something else. Sorry for jumping in. I hope you found your answer.