Extracting multiple RAR files

“I have a folder which contains multiple rar files, each about 14 Meg. How do I extract the whole folder?”

First thing you need is a unzip or unrar program If you don’t have on then I would recommend 7-Zip, it’s free and it can extract RAR formats. Or you can use WInRAR which is shareware but you can try it for free.

When you have multiple RAR files in a folder you can extract them all by highlighting each rar file in that folder. Select multiple files by clicking on the first RAR file then press and hold down the “Shift” key now click on the last RAR file and everything in between the first and last file should be highlighted. Or you can hold down the “CTRL” key to highlight each one at a time by clicking on it, that takes longer but does the same thing.

Once all the RAR files have be selected “right” click on any part of the highlighted area, and scroll down to “Extract Here”, “Extract”, or “Unzip” depending on which program you use but they all do the same thing.

When the first RAR file has been extracted you may be get a dialogue box saying something like you already have this file do you want to replace it. Agree to it and choose the option of not warning you again or else you will need to go through this step for every RAR file which can be annoying.

When it’s done extracting all the files you should get the main file that was compressed and split up, usually its one or two files but sometimes more.