Re: Winzip 9 -- prevent restoration of original directory structure?

Vern Hamberg wrote:

AFAIK it's all or nothing. I don't think one can say to honor only directories that have something in them.

You don't want much, do you?

:D

FWIW, some archiving tools support this, though I don't know if it is supported for all archive formats. The 'unrar' command on my Linux system allows both 'unrar e <file>' and 'unrar x <file>'. One of which preserves the original directory structure, the other extracts all files in to the current directory.

7zip* has a menu option 'View > Flat view' which shows all of the files and directories in the archive, so you can easily select only the ones you want to extract. I can't help with Winzip specifically, but I hope that can help you find a similar option David.

HTH,
Adam

* F/LOSS, a nice alternative to Winzip: http://www.7-zip.org/