Jeremy S
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Search My Rar Archive?
How can I go about searching my rar archive produced by my windows backup without extracting everything?
I use win rar. What I really want to do is scan multiple archives for a file name in a whole directory tree. There are hundreds of these 100 mb rar files, and I don't have the energy to peak in each one of these. It's essentially a needle in a hay stack. I noticed virus software opens and scans each of these automatically, but I need a tool that just search for a name of a file. For some reason the desktop search doesn't index the contents of these rar. I'm sure someone at some point has had this problem and designed a tool for it.
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akruvi
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Best Answer:
That would depend greatly on the program you use to view your archive. Since you're talking about a rar archive, I'll assume you use Winrar for the operation (Although nowadays almost any archive software can read and create any archive type).
I'm using Winrar 3.80. On the top, below the context menus, are graphic buttons that expose basic functionality - the 6th from the left is called "Find". Click it, and under "File names to find" enter the file you're searching for. You may use wildcards (For example, type "setup.*" to find all files called setup, regardless of their extension. Type a* to find all files starting with the letter "a").
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rev_olie
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I depends what program you have to do the searching. I dont know whether you mean look through or scan eg virus scanning.
If you want to scan it then most software give you a right click function to scan
If you mean just look though then using 7ZIP a free archive program you can double click and it will allow you to look through without extracting everything
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akruvi
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That would depend greatly on the program you use to view your archive. Since you're talking about a rar archive, I'll assume you use Winrar for the operation (Although nowadays almost any archive software can read and create any archive type).
I'm using Winrar 3.80. On the top, below the context menus, are graphic buttons that expose basic functionality - the 6th from the left is called "Find". Click it, and under "File names to find" enter the file you're searching for. You may use wildcards (For example, type "setup.*" to find all files called setup, regardless of their extension. Type a* to find all files starting with the letter "a").
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