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
I have been using this program for years and I just wanted to drop by and say thanks. I really could not be without it (from all the users out there, I must be the one who uses this tool the most).. Thank you so much for this!
Ps. It would be a great thing to have a multiprocessor support and support for 7zip.
Solutions and alternatives are available. There will be updates on this program, dunno when. Got a ton of other projects and much work on them too.
Currently I’m working on a complete revised version of StackCopy so please hang on for that update 😉
Mike, a solution for you would be to search for “*.avi” inside the folder with all the episodes. then, you can cut+paste the found files in the root of the directory. that’s what i do in cases like that 🙂
unfortunately, it looks like this great software is not gonna be updated anymore…
Are you planing to update this further? A feature I would like to see is to move extracted file up 1 directory. The reason for this is that when you download a tv season, it comes in a folder for the season, and 24 sub-folders (1 for each episode). Unpacker works great, but after unpacking all 24 episodes of a season lets say, i have to go into all 24 folders and cut and paste each episode I just extracted out of each one. would be nice for it to be extracted to the main season directory instead of those sub folders.
Is there a way to select the destination directory?
Hey Lars!
Very nice Tool! works pretty fine.
Is there an option to delete sfv files after extraction?
best regards
markymark
Hey there Lars!
This tool is EXCELLENT!
I unrared and unzipped all the cr@p that was in my 1TB disks!!
Especially movies and utilities mixed up or left there unrar cause I was bored! Great job indeed!!
Any plans for a new improved version soon, if needed?
Thanx a lot again, god bless!
Dimis Karras
nice feature that i would like add would be to delete Sample folders or any folder that has a video file in it that is would delete
on the auto delete list of except files how about add folders
Hi MnM, I’ve been giving reports of this error on one occasion earlier (Close friend of mine had the problem). We did not find any solution to it since the program just died (He didn’t want a debugger installed on the server). His solution was to reinstall w2k3, and it work afterwards that. You might have ran microsoft “lockdown” tool or something, it set restrictions in many way that might stop the software.
I’ve been using this util exclusive on a w2k3 server for quite a while (with autounpacker) and I don’t have any problem running it even with SP2.
Anyway you could try to install the http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
Then open the unpacker executable, and make it run. The log might say something to me 😉
Just to follow up on my previous post – Win2003 Server R2 with SP2 seems to work just fine (I have tested this ona brand new Virtual Server). However, in my case it will not work. It seems that some software I have installed on my server did change something which will stop Unpacker from running. All other programs run fine. Is just this one. Lars if you have a bebug version or something that you want me to try just let me know and I will work with you to get this program going again.
Hi Lars,
As mentioned by somebody before there are issues with Win2003 Server and SP2. I had this running on Win2003 R2 with SP1 and it just worked fine. Now when I upgraded to SP2 it doesnt run naymore. Any chance you can look inot this? It will be a shame to not get this great program working on the latest service pack.
Thanks.
Please, make support extract archive with passwords. May be take password from list.
Vidar: .NET er en murstein som installeres på sluttbrukers maskin. Helt klart ikke en fordel. Først nå vil .NET bli utnyttet fullt ut, siden Vista inneholder .NET 3.0
Gavepakke og gavepakke, templates for everyone. Kjekk for raske resultat
Hva er det som er sÃ¥ pes med .NET framework’en egentlig? Har aldri skjønt meg pÃ¥ folk som klager pÃ¥ den. “Install-and-fuhgeddaboudit” liksom, hehe.
.NET er jo en gave fra himmelen til oss utviklere 😉
Vidar: Det er jo kult da 🙂 MÃ¥ være behov for noe slikt ja. Flere jeg kjenner hadde nok brukt det, hvis den ikke krevde .Net frameworken 🙂
Hei, har lagd et lignende program, det heter SCRU (Scene Release Unpacker). Det fungerer hovedsakelig som ditt, men ble utviklet for Ã¥ fungere sammen med µTorrent. Du har nok en del ekstra funksjoner da 😉 Kameraten min og jeg har en server hvor vi laster ned tv-serier/filmer/spill via RSS i µTorrent. Hele nedlastingsprosessen og utpakkinga gÃ¥r da helautomatisk, det er digg 🙂
Viktigste funksjonene med SCRU:
* Overvåking av mappe (automatisk utpakking).
* Destinasjon er dynamisk, avhengig av hva som pakkes ut.
Det vil nok aldri komme pÃ¥ høyde med ditt, men det fungerer ypperlig til det bruket det var ment til. Uansett, du kan jo prøve det og si hva du synes 😉
doober: It downloads the file http://lars.werner.no/unpacker/version.txt and checks against the version number. If you don’t want it todo such an action, please turn autoupdate feature off.
I like the program, nice job
One Question: Why does it, everytime you scan a dir, ‘call home’
What i mean is it contacts a Akamai server 217.77.138.134
Why???
Excellent program, but it desperately needs the ability to change the directory to extract to, even if not on a file-by-file basis. Once that get implemented, I’ll happily uninstall the rest of my decompression software. Until then keep up the great work!
Hi large.
Sorry for the slow response.
When I try to start Unpacker or Autoextract they start up (I see them in Task manager) but the process just dies after 4-5 seconds w/o any error or information – neither on screen nor in the event log.
I’ve run Microsoft update on this machine just yesterday and restarted it several times after installation of UnPacker.