Extracting ZIP files and archives with ALZip

The following details how to extract ZIP files and archives using the ALZip main application window.

1. Start ALZip and click the Open button on the toolbar.

2. Select a ZIP or archive to extract files from and click the Open button in the Open archive dialog box.

3. The File list displays all the files in the open archive. Select the files that you wish to extract. If you do not select any files, all files will be extracted. Click the Extract button on the toolbar.

4. ALZip displays the Extract dialog box. Browse to where you want the files saved and click the Extract button.

Tip: If a password was set when the archive was created, the Enter password dialog box will prompt you for the password.

5. ALZip extracts the files and displays the ALZip progress dialog box.

Additional Information:

Duplicate Files

To avoid being prompted for every duplicate file (files with the same name), check the Duplicate Files checkbox and select the appropriate options.

Skip simply skips extracting the file in the archive and preserves the file on disk.

Overwrite replaces the file on disk with the one in the archive. There are 3 options available here:

The "Always" option replaces the file on disk with the one in the archive irrespective of the time stamp.

The "Update" option allows you to keep the newest version of a file.

The "Restore" option is for restoring files from backup archives, and is useful when you want to restore something like a project directory back to a previous known state.

Use Folder Names

If unchecked, the files are extracted into a single folder irrespective of any folders inside the archive. This may result in data loss when the archive is extracted, depending upon whether files in different folders share the same name and overwrite each other. This is useful for dumping all the files in large archives with complex subfolder structures into a single folder for easier browsing. e.g. Imagine 500 folders and subfolder each with 3 files. Is it easier to browse the contents of 1 folder or 500?

Open folder after extracting

Automatically opens a new Explorer window for the folder where files are extracted.

Also see The Extract dialog box for more information.

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