This is a fully automated extracting tool. This is not a WinRAR or WinZIP replacement but quite a useful util when you want to extract large quantum of archives. The program makes a queue of every rar added to the list and extract them one by one. This way you can peacefully play your games (or sleep) while extracting. It also have optional functions to cleanup (removing archives after extract). You should try it, it is free and you’ll get a notice when a program update is available, that way you’ll always have the latest version. Other functions like minimize to tray, thread priority etc. are also available.
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Current version is: v1.5.0 build: 1909
Latest:
- Fixed support for Windows 2003 server and Windows Home Server (captionbuttons messing up)
- Added support for password protected files! (With a simple timeout)
- Added right-click option for “Extract to destination” on found-archives
- Added right-click option for “Rescan same directory” on scan
- Created a SFV-checked option for Autounpacker so it will not rescan same SFV file again
Features:
- Zip-support added!
- Possible to add archives in archives directly to the queue
- Added option for ignoring the found window and directly extract everything it find
- Made the cleanup functions smarter, and fixed a small bug in the renaming feature
- Now possible to save unfinished extraction queue to file on exit and reload it on startup (or a crash)
- Logfile support added
- Also possible to rename the directory you’ve extracted from
- Possible to pause/resume on Unpacker & Autocopy
- AutoCopy can now operate in quiet mode
- Possible to set thread priority
- Autoscan directories by given interval
- Check autoscanned archives against the SFV file
- Automatic adding to queue when archive is equal to SFV, so you don’t have to 🙂
- Recursive scan of harddrive anywhere in Explorer for archives
- Archives can be queued for process
- Each archive is extracted one by one
- Possible (optional) to clean up the archive files after use
Feedback from other sites:
UnPacker 1.5.0 download
on File Fishstick 
Unpacker donations: 2 euros
This is really nice, but I hope you will add a way to extract it to a user selected directory.
A few questions.
Why does the unpacker have to lauch another copy of itself to unpack the files.
I have zone alarm and the software constantly tries to access the internet to check for updates as I Unpack.
When this happens I check the task Manager and found multiple instances running.
I agree with the above regarding having alternative directory to extract to. i.e Incoming and Unpacked.
Perhaps a global variable which will be the directory to extract to.
Any way to speed up scan. When doing a large directory of rars it can take a long time to scan.
Perhaps an option to quick scan which will be equivalent to Directory Scan and then launch background scan for further information.
A great utility that was sorely needed. Thanks for the great work.
A few questions.
Why does the unpacker have to lauch another copy of itself to unpack the files.
I have zone alarm and the software constantly tries to access the internet to check for updates as I Unpack.
When this happens I check the task Manager and found multiple instances running.
I agree with the above regarding having alternative directory to extract to. i.e Incoming and Unpacked.
Perhaps a global variable which will be the directory to extract to.
Any way to speed up scan. When doing a large directory of rars it can take a long time to scan.
Perhaps an option to quick scan which will be equivalent to Directory Scan and then launch background scan for further information.
Good program!
Is it possible for the prog to copy for example an .nfo file contained in the folder with the rar-archive to the directory where you want the extracted file aswell? (or all “external” files in the folder, excepting the rar-archive itself)
Martin Edelius: I’ve just tested it on a W2k3 server and it works perfectly. Could you please explain further?
This seems like a great program but I can’t get it to run under Windows 2003 Server SP1/R2 no matter what I do.
Any ideas?
Fantastic program! One thing that would make it near perfect would be PAR-support. Hoping to see that very soon 🙂
Hi,
Thanks for the wonderful program.
I have a request to be implemented (if possible).
Can you add on option (especially for RAR archive) to uncompress in anewly created directory based on the file name?
A few other programs out there (but nowhere near as good as this one) can handle this option so I would think is not too hard to implement.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Repo: Password protected archives will be ignored with a message & failed icon.
does the prog have facility to accept/input a password; some rar files require a password to be entered to extract the files within. Or will the prog just ignore any password-protected rar files?
Neat program. 🙂
Dear Lars,
Great program, thanks heaps for making this freely available! I’ve spent a few hours looking for sth like this today and the AutoUnpacker did the trick for me. Yay!
One question:
Is it possible to make the context menu entries (‘scan/watch this folder…’ optional? I personally don’t need them and they take up a lot of screen real estate.
Cheers!
It’s sooooooo wonderful! Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for! ^_^
janxster: I haven’t got such a function installed yet. But I might add it in the near future.
Is there a way to clean up specific files. For example: I want to delete the .sfv file after extracting multipart rar files but I don’t want to use the option to “Remove all but these extensions” becuase alot of zip files contain rar files but if I add rar to the list it won’t remove the rar files after extraction of the multipart rar’s.
Nice proggy. Had a heck of a time finding something that does this. Thanks a bunch.
SirPack-A-Lot: I haven’t implemented that into the program yet. But if you have .sfv files you can use the AutoUnpacker function to extract it else where.
I will add it to the todolist.
-Large
Is there an option to extract to a user selected directory? I want to unpack my rar-files to another hard drive to increase the speed, but I can’t find out how.