Brief Tutorial: Creating, Adding, Extracting and Removing Files

Creating a New Archive

Since you will more than likely want to create your own archives, we'll now perform the steps to Create a New Archive.

From the toolbar, select the “New” option. You will now see the standard Windows save dialog box. Navigate to the My Documents folder. In the “File name:” input box, type 'TUTOR2' and press the enter key (or click on “Save” button).

Because TUTOR2.ZIP is empty, the “Add” dialog box will display automatically.

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Please Note:

This tutorial approaches the topic using the main PowerArchiver window as its base of operations. Classic interface is used to explain basic usage - if you are using Modern interface, you can change it to Classic interface by going to the Options tab and clicking on the Interface icon.

Adding Files to an Archive

After creating TUTOR2.ZIP and the “Add” dialog box is displayed, select the files or directories you want to archive and press the “Add” button.

Now compression progress window will be shown. After the compression is finished, you will be able to work with PowerArchiver again.

If you wish to stop the compression process, simply click “Cancel” on progress window and when the confirmation dialog box appears, click “No”. This may result in a broken archive however, and should not be done unless absolutely necessary.

Another way to add files is to drag them from Windows Explorer or from the Desktop onto PowerArchiver.

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Extracting Files From an Archive

You will undoubtedly need to extract a file from an archive. Extracting a file from an archive creates an uncompressed copy of the file in the folder of your choice on your hard disk. Extracting the file from an archive does not remove the file from the archive.

Extracting one or more files: highlight the file or files you want to extract in the listing contained within the TUTOR1 archive. Click on “Extract” button on the toolbar. Select the folder where you want to extract the files and press the “Extract” button.

Extracting all files: If you want to extract all the files from the archive, then after opening the archive just press the “Extract” button and make sure “All files” option is selected in Extract window. Select the folder where you want to extract the files and press the “Extract” button.

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More ways to Extract files

If you open Windows Explorer and navigate to the selected directory, you will see that the selected files were extracted. Another way to extract files from an archive is to drag them from PowerArchiver to Windows Explorer or the Desktop or to use PowerArchiver's Explorer Shell extensions.

Removing Files From an Archive

Let us now assume that we no longer want certain files to be included in the TUTOR2.ZIP archive. To remove file or several files from the archive, click each file while holding down the CTRL key. Now click on “Delete” button on the toolbar. The Delete dialog box will be displayed and “Selected files” will be checked. To delete the files you have selected, press Enter or click the “OK” button.

After PowerArchiver removes the files, the TUTOR2.ZIP archive file created in the previous step will still be open.

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Compiled from the official PowerArchiver Wiki (https://wiki.powerarchiver.com/)