EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

"floris grootendorst" <daobra@...> wrote:


> what i have now is something like couple of hundreds of zip files with the
> samples inside. it would be tedious to unzip these all one by one and my
> thought was if this could be done in another way, like a batch process or
> some other automated way.
>
> i'd like to hear how you all managed doing this, by hand or...??

I do it automatically - I wrote a perl script that loops through all zip or
rar archives in a given directory and extracts each of them to their own
folder - I simply copy any archives in my "bulkzip" directory and run the
script, and it neatly extracts them all...

There are probably other ways of achieving this as well...

Ben Hall
www.benhall.co.uk

Hiya, 

Winrar will unzip multiple files no problem


www.winrar.com

jr

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have only now found some time to review the free akai samples we all
> leeched from akai's ftp site. i look forward to it.
> 
> what i have now is something like couple of hundreds of zip 
> files with the
> samples inside. it would be tedious to unzip these all one by 
> one and my
> thought was if this could be done in another way, like a 
> batch process or
> some other automated way.
> 
> i'd like to hear how you all managed doing this, by hand or...??

> There are probably other ways of achieving this as well...

There are...

I simply selected all zipfiles in a directory, then dragged them to 
the same directory using rightclick. In the dropdown menu that 
appears, choose "unzip to directory..." (or something like it). Since 
dir information is already included in the zipfiles, new directories 
will be created for each zip. This is still a bit by hand since you 
have to browse through all directories by hand, but I'm not sure it 
isn't as fast as creating a script for the job... At least you get to 
do a whole directory at once, instead of doing the zipfiles one by 
one.

regards

monsdrum

floris grootendorst wrote:
> what i have now is something like couple of hundreds of zip files with the
> samples inside. it would be tedious to unzip these all one by one and my
> thought was if this could be done in another way, like a batch process or
> some other automated way.

If you are on Windows, TurboZip maybe is what you want:
http://www.filestream.com/turbozip/downloads.html (shareware)
or try this:
http://www.alberts.com/authorpages/00005515/prod_631.htm (shareware)
or this:
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/54812.html (freeware)

Google rocks, just entered: "unzip multiple files" (without the quotes) and
it got me all those in 5 seconds.

Regards,
Sascha

By far the easiest solution is to download Stuffit expander
(http://www.stuffit.com/ for Mac or PC and also free) and drag the folder of
zips to the icon. It'll unstuff all zips and leave them in their respective
folders. Easy! -Jer

> From: "Sascha Franck" <saschafranck@...>
> Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:54:26 +0100
> To: <exs-users@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [exs] about those free akai samples
> 
> floris grootendorst wrote:
>> what i have now is something like couple of hundreds of zip files with the
>> samples inside. it would be tedious to unzip these all one by one and my
>> thought was if this could be done in another way, like a batch process or
>> some other automated way.
> 
> If you are on Windows, TurboZip maybe is what you want:
> http://www.filestream.com/turbozip/downloads.html (shareware)
> or try this:
> http://www.alberts.com/authorpages/00005515/prod_631.htm (shareware)
> or this:
> http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/54812.html (freeware)
> 
> Google rocks, just entered: "unzip multiple files" (without the quotes) and
> it got me all those in 5 seconds.
> 
> Regards,
> Sascha
> 
> 
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