how to extract compressed folders?

  • Hi,

    I am having a folder say folder1 and in that folder another folder's which are compressed folders.I want to extract that compressed folders.These folders are compressed by built in windows xp utility.not zip/zip7 or any other software.I know we can do this by using execute process task but i could not understand which executable is used for this.

    Thanks in adavance

    Abhas.

  • abhas (2/10/2011)


    Hi,

    I am having a folder say folder1 and in that folder another folder's which are compressed folders.I want to extract that compressed folders.These folders are compressed by built in windows xp utility.not zip/zip7 or any other software.I know we can do this by using execute process task but i could not understand which executable is used for this.

    Thanks in adavance

    Abhas.

    Hi Abhas,

    What is the file extension (.xxx) of these "compressed folders" ?

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  • abhas (2/10/2011)


    Hi,

    I am having a folder say folder1 and in that folder another folder's which are compressed folders.I want to extract that compressed folders.These folders are compressed by built in windows xp utility.not zip/zip7 or any other software.I know we can do this by using execute process task but i could not understand which executable is used for this.

    Thanks in adavance

    Abhas.

    Normally, the built-in compression utility of windows creates .zip files.

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  • I want extract folders which are compressed using windows built in utility.So i don't know which exe extract these folders.

    Regards

    Abhas.

  • You can use the exe of winzip I guess.

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  • The best option should be 7zip which is an open source licence

    we have a 7-Zip Command Line Version available for download(http://www.7-zip.org/download.html)

    use that one with commands as Expressions along with ur variables in exec process task..

    for command line arguments...

    http://dotnetperls.com/7-zip-examples

  • I can't use 7zip as i don't have permission.

  • So you must decompress folder, but you can't use an exe to decompress them.

    That's quite a deadlock.

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  • Are you looking for a native tool...

    if so you can use compress

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en

    for that u need to ask ur admin to install this toolkit for u.

  • Maybe the permissions issue is not with EXE files, rather adding (non MS) software

    The only only MS only options that I can see would be to have a CLR written to access the Windows Shell (where the native compressed folders are) or to install the 2003 Resource Kit (from MS) which has a COMPRESS executable that is command line-able.

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