File Extraction Program?

[mtkversion]

Tried googling a program that will take a folder, have the user input a file extension of what they want to extract out and dump it all into a folder the user selects.

I have root-folder1 , folder2, folder3 etc with various .gifs/.jpgs/.pngs that I want to seperate.

Instead of going through each folder and manually seperating them, a program like this would probably cut my time by a few hours.

I tried using WinRAR to achieve this but no luck ... any ideas?

[John Veteran]

use winrar or winzip or whatever you like, then sort the files by type. select them all and extract just those (Y)

[mAcOdIn Veteran]

I don't know of a program that will do this for you but if you are using windows XO just open the folder, click on an open space, and choose arrange icons by type. Then all the .bmp's will be listed together in alphabetical order followed by the .gif's, then the .jpg's, and you can manually select them that way.

But hopefully someone will get you a program to make it easier.

[mtkversion]

thanks fellas. those tips will help but ...

i have go through 129 individual folders ... :(

well time to get cracking i guess ... still looking for some other ideas though :D

[John Veteran]

some programs show all the files in an archive in a single list, with a field for the folder it's contained in. i think winzip did this, but i'm not sure if it still does since i haven't used it since version 7... it probably does though.

[dan87]

try zip genius. it's free and has the most features i've ever seen in a zip/best file support seen.

I don't know if it does an extraction based on extension, but it is worth a check

[dan87]

ok i just checked and it does do what you want

http://www.zipgenius.it/

[mtkversion]

thanks dan .. im trying it out :cool:

[dan87]

you're welcome. Word of advice though- I'd use it in advanced mode, and get rid of the wizards, since it gives you much more control for file types. If you use the wizard interface, it might not give you the option to extract by file extension

[dan87]

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[mtkversion]

zipgenius did the job perfectly!

this program looks a lot fancier than winrar but i will be keeping it around for future use.

thanks again for the recommendation

[dan87]

np. glad it worked