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Unzip Files

Automation Workshop includes the Unzip Files Action that allows automatic file extraction from a wide variety of archive types. The Action supports variables, extraction of multi-volume archives, Unicode filenames, decryption of files encrypted with a secure AES 256-bit algorithm. Specific files can be extracted from an archive by using file masks.

Features & highlights

  • Automatically unzip files to specified (local or network) folder. It supports Zip, Tar, Tar.gz, Tar.bz2, gz, and bz2 archive formats.
  • Unzip large and multi-volume archives containing files with Unicode names.
  • Decrypt files in archives encrypted using AES-256, AES-128, and Zip 2.0 encryption standard.
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Usage examples

  • Unzip files automatically when they appear in a monitored local folder or shared network drive.
  • Unzip files to test data integrity, and automatically send the archive over email.
  • Automatically extract files that are downloaded from a remote server, and process each file using the Loop actions.
  • Uncompress just a particular set of files from very large archives (without extracting whole archive contents).

Documentation

  • Archive · Provide the archive file, destination folder, and archive type.
  • Options · Specify which files will be extracted, an archive password, and choose whether to replace existing files and recreate the original folder structure.

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