Hardly anyone would dump the entire contents of the closet onto the floor if they had to get one T-shirt. This idea is also true when working with archives. There is no need to unpack the entire contents if the archiving program allows you to selectively extract the files you want.
It is necessary
- - WinRAR program;
- - archive.
Instructions
Step 1
Load the archive from which you are going to extract some of the files into the WinRAR program. To do this, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + O. You can just as well use the Open Archive command from the File menu. There is another option to do the same: select from the drop-down list located under the main menu of the program window the drive where the desired archive is located. In this case, the contents of the disk will be displayed in the program window. Select the folder in which the archive is located and double-click on it with the left mouse button. You can do it even easier: open the folder in which the archive is located in the explorer and double-click on it with the left mouse button.
Step 2
View the contents of the archive, fortunately, the WinRAR program provides such an opportunity. To do this, right-click on the file with the archive in the program window. In the context menu that opens, select the "View file" option. You can use the Alt + V keyboard shortcut after selecting the archive file. To get the same result, the View button, which is located right below the main menu, or the View File command from the Commands menu is a good choice.
Step 3
Select the files you are going to extract from the archive. In order to select several files at once, left-click on them while holding down the Ctrl key. If you need to select a large number of files at once, left-click on the top one, press the Shift key and click on the last file.
Step 4
Extract the selected files from the archive. To do this, click on the "Extract" button located under the main menu of the program. The same will happen if you press the Alt + E key combination, or use the “Extract to specified folder” command from the “Commands” menu. In the file extraction settings window that opens, specify the folder into which the selected files will be unpacked from the archive and click the OK button …
