- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 02, 2006
- Total Downloads: 93,594
- Downloads last week: 214
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 15 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
It doesn't unpack your luggage, but this utility greatly simplifies expanding many popular archive types. From the utilitarian interface to the minimal options, AutoUnpack is designed for getting a specific job quickly accomplished. Many archive unpackers require a few steps to expand a RAR or ZIP file, but AutoUnpack does the job in a single step. You merely point to a folder containing your ZIP or RAR files and choose an output directory. Press one button to start a process that ends with your archive perfectly unpacked, or let the program automatically unpack that directory every set number of minutes. You can make downloads fall into your unpack directory; AutoUnpack remembers what it has unpacked and operates only on new archives.
Our favorite feature has to be AutoUnpack:NZB. You set an e-mail address for this application to monitor, and whenever it finds an e-mail with the proper subject and coding, it searches Usenet for the requested file. AutoUnpack downloads all the file pieces, properly combines them, then decodes them. Unfortunately, creating the correct NZB coding must be handled with another program. Some users may be disappointed with the default settings, but it takes only a couple of minutes to make easy changes to all settings. Any Usenet fan, or RAR user, will find this freeware unpacker immensely useful.
Publisher's description
From See-And-Be :AutoUnpack is a utility that can be used to automatically download, repair (PAR), and unpack all RAR, 7z, zip, TS - archives, or splitted files (*.001). Which is especially useful for usenet binaries. Main features: E-mail an NZB file of your favorite movie, and AutoUnpack will make sure it gets downloaded (with your favorite usenet reader), repaired, and unpacked before you get home in the evening Par, Par2, RAR, Unzip, 7z splitted files, Transport Stream (TS). Intelligent file processing (it remembers what archives were already processed).
Separate input and output folders. Delete archives on successful unpack. Unpack to a sub-folder. Automatically remove incomplete or old archives. Automatically remove empty folders. Monitor function. Version 4.4.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 15 votes
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2 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: AutoUnpack 4.4.4
Pros: Don't know since I hate when a program does what this one does - See CONS
Cons: Why does this program need to auto-load each and everytime the o.s. is loaded? That is a lame thing to do even if it is a freebie. I deleted it asap when I found this out...
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: AutoUnpack 4.4.4
"Good for mass unpacking, not so great for individual files"
Pros: - It works great for unpacking several archives at once.
- It neatly places all unpacked files in (sub)folders, in the designated 'unpack' folder. - It works fast.
- It's free...
Cons: - You can't look into specific archives like you can with WinZip or PowerArchiver etc.
- It's not so great in repairing corrupted archives. It did nothing with a damaged zip file, whilst other apps where able to open and extract at least some of the content.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: AutoUnpack 4.4.4
"Unpacking and repairing made simple !"
Pros: Excellent easy to use program.
It gets better with each version and it's free !
Cons: None
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: AutoUnpack 4.4.4
Pros: Simple and effective, does exactly what it says it does and does it very well.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: AutoUnpack 4.4.4
"Has flaws, but incredibly useful."
Pros: Really, the only tool that approaches doing the job to my satisfaction.
Cons: A few workable bugs. Especially with undeletable directories.
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