Multiple archive extraction from Finder

Submitted by ozron on Tue, 2007-12-25 04:30
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First off, Merry Christmas to all from Down Under...

I've just bought BetterZip through the MacUpdate promo and started using it. Very nice app, but having one problem so far...

I understand that you can select an archive in the finder and extract it by holding down the command key & double clicking on it. However if I have say 20 archive files in the same dir and want to unarchive them all with one action, rather than unarchiving each one - one at a time - how do I do that? I've tried various key combinations and the best I get is that it unarchives the first one but opens the BetterZip window separately with each other file. Help! What am I missing here?

Many thanks.

Cheers,
Ronny

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Submitted by Stefan Sturm (not verified) on Tue, 2007-12-25 10:38.

Hello,

I'm looking for the same function. Hope, there is one :-)

Stefan

Submitted by Robert on Tue, 2007-12-25 11:16.

You aren't missing anything. At the moment BetterZip has no queueing mechanism. After all the central idea was to work with one archive at a time. But, I am working on a new version that will have queuing and lots of other new things.

Submitted by ozron on Tue, 2007-12-25 11:19.

Thanks Robert, that sounds great. Looking forward to the new version!

Submitted by Gannet on Thu, 2007-12-27 04:16.

Just a thought - what if you were to make the extraction component a separate app within the main app? The advantage would be you can choose whether to associate files with the extractor or with BetterZip.

Submitted by Robert on Thu, 2007-12-27 10:52.

Gannet: Interesting idea. I'll think about it. I am currently changing the program's structure anyway for AppleScript support. What I don't like is the idea of installing multiple programs. Like StuffIt which comes with 10 programs, all similarly named and the user has to learn which program to use for what tasks.

Submitted by Nojisan (not verified) on Thu, 2010-02-18 02:24.

Any idea when this will be fixed? I am trying to expand multiple archives at once and when I add them all to the list and click "expand all" it asks for the destination folder and then proceeds to do absolutely nothing.

I've also tried using automator. I could use the "watch me do it" function to actually teach it what to do once the files are opened, but I've still found that if I select more than a couple files at once, it opens them all in one window instead of individually.

Any idea how to make automator open one archive, expand it, close it, then move on to the next in the list? Or when can we expect betterzip to be able to handle multiple files?

I'm trying to expand upwards of 60 archives at once.

Submitted by Robert on Thu, 2010-02-18 11:36.

There is probably one file among the list you open that is not an archive. BetterZip detects that and thinks that you want to create a new archive with all the files you dragged in. Are these all single archives or multi-part? If they are all parts of a multi-part archive, open just one of the parts.

I am working on the queueing, but there is no ETA yet.

Submitted by Nojisan (not verified) on Thu, 2010-02-18 21:35.

I made some progress yesterday. Even though betterzip can handle cbr and cbz files, it can't seem to handle more than one at a time. So I made an automator workflow to rename all cbz to zip and all cbr to rar then unpack everything at once.

It seems to work that way.

All the archives are single part. But there maybe both types of archives in one folder.

Submitted by Robert on Fri, 2010-02-19 01:29.

Hm, really? I never noticed a different behavior with cbr or cbz files lately. I'll look into that.