Automatic RAR deletion

Megalith · Dec 9, 2007, 05:41 PM

Is there a compression program out there that can automatically delete RAR files after a successful decompression?

I hate having to decompress large numbers of binaries from newsgroups, then having to delete them by hand every time.

RacinReaver · Local time: Dec 9, 2007, 03:58 PM

I think Winrar has an option to do that just as it has one to delete files after you've compressed them.

Megalith · Dec 9, 2007, 07:18 PM

I've gone through WinRAR's options multiple times, and just double-checked to be sure, but I don't see anything.

Zergrinch · Local time: Dec 10, 2007, 11:03 AM

Sorry, no option exists in Winrar for that. RacinReaver was referring to WinRar's ability to delete files after you compressed them, not rar files after you decompressed them.

RacinReaver · Local time: Dec 9, 2007, 09:06 PM

Well, I knew it had the one, and upon looking it seems it actually doesn't have the setting for the other way. Weird, I could swear it did that.

If you're doing all this within a folder, then you could just choose to sort by filetype and then select all the .rar files that way, megalith.

LiquidAcid · Local time: Dec 10, 2007, 10:43 AM

It should be quite easy to create a BATCH-script that receives a directory path as parameter and unpacks every RAR-archive in that folder (via the commandline unpacker), after which it deletes the archive (and keeps it in the event that unpacking fails for whatever reason).

elwitty · Local time: Dec 11, 2007, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by Megalith

I hate having to decompress large numbers of binaries from newsgroups, then having to delete them by hand every time.

Grab-it has an option to decompress and delete rars after finishing the downloads, it can also check par2 and delete the par2 files after recovery.

Megalith · Dec 11, 2007, 04:53 PM

Unfortunately, GrabIt is incredibly slow. NewsLeecher is far superior...other than lacking the ability to do the above.