 Universal Extractor, Extract files from any type of archive or application installer |
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 Dec 9 2005, 12:09 AM
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Advanced Member  Group: Software Developers Posts: 316 Joined: 5-November 04 From: USA Member No.: 35763 OS: none 
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Updated: 10/17/2008
Version 1.6 Released - Please see the Universal Extractor Latest Version for details of this release, and all releases going forward. I was inspired by ZoSTeR's Universal Silent Switch Finder, so I wrote an application to do something I've wanted for quite a long time: an easy way to extract files from executable files, installation packages, .msi files, etc. I often have a need to unpack other application packages, whether it's to get a file out of it and I don't feel like installing the full application, or I'm investigating how to perform a silent install, or whatever the case may be. In the past it's always resulted in some internet research and dropping to a command line to do it manually. Now, I just right-click and select Extract. :-) PEiD was the key to this, so thanks, ZoSTeR, for the idea. In the process, I also decided to add support for pretty much any archive/compression format I could think of. While this isn't overly helpful if you already own a good archiving utility such as WinRAR, I find it convenient to have a commone way of extracting everything. Also, since the package only uses freely redistributable components (mostly open source), it can be quite useful to send to somebody that needs to extract an odd file but doesn't have a supporting program. Well, I guess that should be enough exposition. :-) I'm posting this here bacause:
Direct downloads: Please see Universal Extractor Latest Version I hope you find this useful. This post has been edited by nitro322: Oct 18 2008, 12:05 PM |
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Dec 9 2005, 02:16 AM
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Tpyo Spceialist  Group: Members Posts: 1033 Joined: 16-August 04 From: UK Member No.: 27774 OS: XP Pro x86 
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Very useful thanks
 , testing now
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Dec 10 2005, 10:38 AM
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Junior Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 24-March 05 Member No.: 49110 
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thankx.
very useful. |
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Dec 11 2005, 04:33 AM
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MSFN Junkie Group: Members Posts: 3288 Joined: 19-May 04 Member No.: 20315 
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just a thought, good idea & all, but how about instead of having a dos box open u could have a GUI instead ?
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Dec 11 2005, 05:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 24-December 04 Member No.: 39215 OS: none 
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can you list currently supported archives, or are all supported already in \bin\formats ?
and thanks for the util! |
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Dec 12 2005, 08:42 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: 13-September 04 From: This great blue planet in the star system with nine planets somewhere in the milky way Member No.: 30871 OS: XP Pro x86 
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I have the problem that nearly everytime it hangs after I click in the context menu on "Extract". Then it shows the "scanning file" bar and I do NOTHING. And when I push ctrl+alt+del It shows me an error code.
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Dec 12 2005, 11:28 AM
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Junior Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 17-November 05 Member No.: 80037
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Works like a charm... this is a good product. In particular, nice to get ISS setups easily extracted. Go on...
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Dec 12 2005, 12:44 PM
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MSFN Master Group: Members Posts: 2288 Joined: 27-February 05 From: Bucharest Member No.: 45441 OS: Windows 7 x64 
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i dont like that when u extract a cabbed file, this one extracts to a folder......not to the uncabbed file.....
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Dec 13 2005, 07:28 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Software Developers Posts: 316 Joined: 5-November 04 From: USA Member No.: 35763 OS: none
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QUOTE (atomizer @ Dec 11 2005, 05:27 AM)  can you list currently supported archives, or are all supported already in \bin\formats ? atomizer, the supported formats are listed in detail on the app's home page. QUOTE (McStarfighter @ Dec 12 2005, 08:42 AM) I have the problem that nearly everytime it hangs after I click in the context menu on "Extract". Then it shows the "scanning file" bar and I do NOTHING. And when I push ctrl+alt+del It shows me an error code. McStarfighter, can you please give me an example of the kind of file you're trying to extract? I've never seen this behavior. QUOTE (boooggy @ Dec 12 2005, 12:44 PM) i dont like that when u extract a cabbed file, this one extracts to a folder......not to the uncabbed file..... boooggy, what do you mean? What exactly is an uncabbed file? QUOTE (MCT @ Dec 11 2005, 04:33 AM) just a thought, good idea & all, but how about instead of having a dos box open u could have a GUI instead ? Wish I could, but for now that's not possible. The UniExtract front-end doesn't do any of the work itself - it calls all of the other binaries in bin\ to extract the files. As a result, there's no way for UniExtract to know the current status or progress of any given operation; the only thing it knows for sure is the beginning and end points. It would be easy to hide the DOS box and only show a static GUI message like, "Extracting. Please wait...", but I find it much more useful to know the current status of the operation. With that said, the current beta versions of AutoIt does allow STDIO operations with external DOS programs. As a long-term goal I plan on moving to this approach (also noted in the ToDo file), which should at least allow me to wrap the output in a GUI text box. I still won't be able to give a simple progress bar, but it would look much cleaner. That'll be coming in version 2.0. :-) This post has been edited by nitro322: Dec 13 2005, 07:29 AM |
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Dec 14 2005, 07:18 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 4-December 05 Member No.: 81559
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BRILLIANT IDEA NITRO322!!! THIS WILL ME HELP A LOT!!!
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Dec 15 2005, 05:56 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 6-December 05 From: London, UK Member No.: 81708 OS: none
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QUOTE (McStarfighter @ Dec 12 2005, 02:42 PM) I have the problem that nearly everytime it hangs after I click in the context menu on "Extract". Then it shows the "scanning file" bar and I do NOTHING. And when I push ctrl+alt+del It shows me an error code. I am getting this everytime i try to extract adobe reader, quicktime and firefox. |
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Dec 16 2005, 11:26 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Software Developers Posts: 316 Joined: 5-November 04 From: USA Member No.: 35763 OS: none
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QUOTE (REDRUM @ Dec 15 2005, 05:56 AM) QUOTE (McStarfighter @ Dec 12 2005, 02:42 PM) I have the problem that nearly everytime it hangs after I click in the context menu on "Extract". Then it shows the "scanning file" bar and I do NOTHING. And when I push ctrl+alt+del It shows me an error code. I am getting this everytime i try to extract adobe reader, quicktime and firefox. Ok, I still haven't been able to duplicate this behavior. I don't think that Adobe Reader cannot be extracted with UniExtract, so that may not make a good test case. Quicktime I'm not sure about one way or another. Firefox, however, definitely works. I just downloaded and tested again to make sure that nothing changed in version 1.5, and it still works fine. It's a Self-Extracting 7-Zip archive, so UniExtract should call 7z.exe to extract the contents. With that said, I did notice a couple oddities while testing for this problem. If you've already extracted the archive and try to extract again (while the previous folder still exists), UniExtract will appear to hang after spawning an empty command shell. What's actually happening is 7-Zip is prompting you to confirm whether or not you want to overwrite the existing files; however, for some reason the prompt itself is not shown. Simply hitting a then enter will make it continue. Now, I've only just encountered this problem with 7-Zip while extracting the Firefox installer, so I don't know how pervasive it is. I'll do some more testing and figure out a better way to deal with this. Regardless, though, this doesn't appear to be related to your problem since this occurs after the file is scanned with PEiD. I also noticed that when using the Explorer integration, short names (8.3) are used instead of long file names when creating the new directory. I've already tracked down this problem and will include the fix in the next release. Finally, I have a couple other questions for you, to help track down your problem. #1, are you using the installed version, or the self-extracting version? #2, do you have any other copies of PEiD open when you're running UniExtract? Thanks for the feedback. I am very interested in making this the best it can possibly be, so please keep it coming. |
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 Dec 17 2005, 02:55 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 29-October 05 Member No.: 78082 
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You know something
U did jus wat i was goin to do I jus started with the code which will allow to unpack only installtions not other archives for other archives i use IZArc CODE http://www.izsoft.dir.bg which unpacks every known archive including bin,iso,nrg,img files So i think u oly concentrate on unpacin installers let IZArc do the other job BTW u can call IZArc from commandline and avoid use of other files Just a suggestion hop u lik it  
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Dec 17 2005, 07:27 AM
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MSFN Master Group: Members Posts: 2288 Joined: 27-February 05 From: Bucharest Member No.: 45441 OS: Windows 7 x64
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if i have a file lets say rundll32.dl_ and i extract it using your progie....it will extract to a folder not to the file rundll32.dll......
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Dec 19 2005, 12:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 9-January 04 Member No.: 12190 |
Another very handy msi extractor (can just unpack from the msi), is Less MSIérables. Works very nicely.
Cheers |
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Dec 19 2005, 05:05 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Software Developers Posts: 316 Joined: 5-November 04 From: USA Member No.: 35763 OS: none
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QUOTE (boooggy @ Dec 17 2005, 07:27 AM) if i have a file lets say rundll32.dl_ and i extract it using your progie....it will extract to a folder not to the file rundll32.dll...... Ahh. Yeah, I know what you mean. I actually considered this issue during development. However, I have common code that takes care of initial setup and then final verification of extraction for each type of archive. I would need to create a special case specifically for this type of file to get around it, and just didn't want to go down that route. Additionally, since every other archive type extracts to a subdirectory, I figured this one as well, if only for consistency. I hope this isn't too much of an inconvenience. :-) For the next version I'll probably look into this again, see if there's some better way of handling it. However, as I said, I'd prefer not to create a special case just for this one filetype, so we'll see what happens. QUOTE (ATM @ Dec 17 2005, 02:55 AM) So i think u oly concentrate on unpacin installers let IZArc do the other job BTW u can call IZArc from commandline and avoid use of other files Thanks for the suggestion, ATM. I actually do exactly this with 7-Zip. which I use to open .7z, 7-Zip SFX .exe, .bz2, .cab, .chm, .cpio, .deb, .gz, .lzh, .rpm, .tar, and .Z files. I still use some other standalone binaries, however, because they may support their native format more robustly. For example, the official unrar.exe can open certain RAR files (particularly SFX files) that 7-Zip cannot, despite the fact that it does support RAR files. I chose to use 7-Zip rather than IZArc primarily because it's open source (which I am a huge proponent of), and because it has a great command line interface. However, I didn't realize that IZArc could handle .iso files. I'll look into it and see if it's possible to use in my program. This post has been edited by nitro322: Jan 16 2006, 07:24 PM |
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Jan 16 2006, 09:16 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Software Developers Posts: 316 Joined: 5-November 04 From: USA Member No.: 35763 OS: none
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I just released version 1.0 of Universal Extractor. Please see the original post for details and download links.
As usual, feedback is most welcome. |
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Jan 17 2006, 04:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 107 Joined: 9-April 05 Member No.: 51267 
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Hi and Thank You nitro322.
I've tried your uniextract10.exe , the installer version worked sweet as for me on a short try (gunna give your proggy a flogging when I get home work...lol) But the uniextract10_noinst.exe just keeps coming up with crc errors when I try to extract the archive (pasted from SFX window) CODE CRC failed in bin\arj.exe I have tried clearing my temp and internet cache and dl'n again , same crc failures when unpacking though. Extracting bin\E_WISE_W.EXE CRC failed in bin\E_WISE_W.EXE Extracting bin\helpdeco.exe CRC failed in bin\helpdeco.exe Extracting bin\i6comp.exe CRC failed in bin\i6comp.exe Extracting bin\innounp.exe CRC failed in bin\innounp.exe Extracting bin\IsXunpack.exe CRC failed in bin\IsXunpack.exe Extracting bin\lzop.exe CRC failed in bin\lzop.exe Extracting bin\PEiD.exe CRC failed in bin\PEiD.exe Extracting bin\tee.exe CRC failed in bin\tee.exe Extracting bin\UniExtract.exe CRC failed in bin\UniExtract.exe Extracting bin\UnRAR.exe CRC failed in bin\UnRAR.exe Extracting bin\unzip.exe CRC failed in bin\unzip.exe Extracting bin\WUN.exe CRC failed in bin\WUN.exe Extracting bin\xace.exe CRC failed in bin\xace.exe Extracting bin\Formats\7z.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\7z.dll Extracting bin\Codecs\7zAES.dll CRC failed in bin\Codecs\7zAES.dll Extracting bin\Codecs\AES.dll CRC failed in bin\Codecs\AES.dll Extracting bin\Codecs\Branch.dll CRC failed in bin\Codecs\Branch.dll Extracting bin\Formats\bz2.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\bz2.dll Extracting bin\Codecs\BZip2.dll CRC failed in bin\Codecs\BZip2.dll Extracting bin\Formats\cab.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\cab.dll Extracting bin\Formats\chm.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\chm.dll Extracting bin\Codecs\Copy.dll CRC failed in bin\Codecs\Copy.dll Extracting bin\Formats\cpio.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\cpio.dll Extracting bin\Formats\deb.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\deb.dll Extracting bin\Codecs\Deflate.dll CRC failed in bin\Codecs\Deflate.dll Extracting bin\Formats\gz.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\gz.dll Extracting bin\Formats\lzh.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\lzh.dll Extracting bin\Codecs\LZMA.dll CRC failed in bin\Codecs\LZMA.dll Extracting bin\Codecs\PPMd.dll CRC failed in bin\Codecs\PPMd.dll Extracting bin\Formats\rpm.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\rpm.dll Extracting bin\Formats\split.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\split.dll Extracting bin\Codecs\Swap.dll CRC failed in bin\Codecs\Swap.dll Extracting bin\Formats\tar.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\tar.dll Extracting bin\Formats\z.dll CRC failed in bin\Formats\z.dll Extracting bin\ZD51145.DLL CRC failed in bin\ZD51145.DLL Extracting bin\Codecs Extracting docs Extracting bin\Formats Extracting bin Extracting UniExtract.au3 Extracting support\Icons\uniextract_exe.ico CRC failed in support\Icons\uniextract_exe.ico Extracting support\Icons\uniextract_files.ico CRC failed in support\Icons\uniextract_files.ico Could you please post the MD5 for uniextract10_noinst.exe The MD5 I get for uniextract10_noinst.exe: B281C1276D2D36B8C09452151649857C (Size 1.84MB (1,934,224 bytes)) cheers PS. Hope you don't mind me adding your prog to my SA Utils personal package. if so let me know. SA Utils Info: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=65085 This post has been edited by smashly: Jan 17 2006, 05:10 AM |
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Jan 17 2006, 08:22 AM
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Snap ... Crackle ... Pop Group: Members Posts: 1742 Joined: 12-December 03 From: Area 51 Member No.: 10764
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thats a great app nitro good job, i usually use various methods to extract but this does make things more convenent,
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Jan 17 2006, 11:32 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Software Developers Posts: 316 Joined: 5-November 04 From: USA Member No.: 35763 OS: none
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QUOTE But the uniextract10_noinst.exe just keeps coming up with crc errors when I try to extract the archive (pasted from SFX window) smashly, I can confirm this error. Not sure what happened, though. When I get home tonight I'll compare it to my local copy and see what's going on. Also, I don't have any problem with you adding it to your SA package (which looks pretty cool, btw). After all, the whole reason I put this out there is for others to benefit from it. :-) |
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