How about add support for Zip archives that use the Bzip2 compression method?
7-zip support it (but Info-zip not).

Can you post a link to such a file? I'd be happy to look into it.

Using 7-zip (every version since 2003-04-19 - 2.30b30), Select some files, click Add, choose Format: Zip and Method: Bzip2. Almost the same for WinZip 10. Also you can use PKZIP.

If you want a zip file using Store, Deflate, Deflate64 and Bzip2 (Created with KZIP, 7-zip and ZIPMIX): Test File

Universal Extractor problem


Hi All,

I recently discovered, downloaded and installed Universal Extractor, a very powerful program!
But for the moment, I use the 1.2.1 release and have little problems with it.
When, for example, I try to do some UniExtract operations on the UniExtract121.Exe file whatever the uniextract to option I choose from the contextual menu
all my files end in the {app} directory in the root of the curent drive ...
and with an error !!!

And I am unable to unpack the skypesetup.Exe file which is a normal innosetup package ...

Note : I installed UniExtract from the installer choosing the default options.




A bit more information ...

I found the solution of the uniextract misworking.
It was apparently because my default command processor was not cmd.Exe but 4nt.Exe (from Jp Software available at http://www.jpsoft.com).
So a question :
why does Universal Extractor not work properly when cmd.Exe is not the default command processor (in the comspec variable) ?
Is it because cmd.Exe is hard coded in independant programs uniextract uses to unpack/uncompress files ?
IS there a workaround ?

And unfortunately, I did not succeed in resolving my skypesetup.Exe extraction problem.
Each time I try to do so, here is the error message (from uniextract.txt) I receive :
"; Version detected: 5004
Signature: Inno Setup Setup Data (5.0.4skp)
Error (EOutOfMemory) "Out of memory" at address 004029F4"



Excuse me !!!

I inadvertantly posted questions dedicated to the forum in the "Universal Extractor 1.2 Released" news.
Could it be possible to delete those comments please ?

I found the solution concerning my default command processor issue (it just needs some tweaking).

About skypesetup.exe no more news.
Apparently this setup package is a signed one and I wondered if it is not the cause of the unpack problem ...
Even in command line with the innosetup unpacker I have the same result ...

Hello, your tool is just great! The WISE unpacking is true maestry! I have one simple suggestion:
You could add a /E [location] console switch for unknown setup files (for example McAfee one) to extract file; see for yourself here (definitions file: http://download.mcafee.com/us/updates/superDat.asp?real=0).

Best greetz & thanks!

Another False Positive: Now Antivir detects IsXunpack.exe as "TR/Crypt.F.Gen"

Complete scanning result of "IsXunpack.exe", received in VirusTotal at 07.03.2006, 05:47:55 (CET).
AntiVir TR/Crypt.F.Gen
CAT-QuickHeal (Suspicious) - DNAScan
Fortinet suspicious
Panda Suspicious file

The other 22 antivirus no virus found

For comparison purposes a file compressed with Upack...
Complete scanning result of "7zSD.upack", received in VirusTotal at 07.03.2006, 05:52:33 (CET).
CAT-QuickHeal (Suspicious) - DNAScan
Fortinet suspicious

...and a file compressed with UPX
Complete scanning result of "7z.upx", received in VirusTotal at 07.03.2006, 05:54:38 (CET).
Panda Suspicious file

For some reason the Antivir team think that IsXunpack.exe is a real virus
http://portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=976

Yeah and the worst thing is I am warned about it after every reboot. Getting annoying. Just wish they would fix their **** detections.

What's antivirus are you using?

If you are using AntiVir you can exclude files from the Resident Guard:
Extras -> Configuration -> Guard (Expert Mode must be enabled) -> Scan -> Click the + -> Exception -> Files objects to be omitted for the Guard

I like Universal Extractor very much.
I produced a simplified Chinese version, and I hope it can be the Official Simplified Chinese version ^o^

Thanks, I'll check it out.


clauderenaud, I saw your post about this on my website as well. Could you please post the tweaks you made? If possible I'd like to include support for this by default.


I still have yet to investigate this. If you already tried via command line, then it very probably can't be done. I've seen a few Inno Setup installers like this, and unfortunately I have yet to discover a workaround.


medzik, are you talking about being able to specify the destination directory for extracted files from the command line? That capability is already supported. Run 'uniextract.exe /help' for information about command line usage.


Clippit, this is very cool. I have no problem with this port, and will link to it during my next update. I have a couple questions/requests, though.

First, for everyone else's sake I'd like to list the URL for the port. Clippit sent this to me via PM, which is why no one else saw it.
http://zlthooray.googlepages.com/universal...lp:introduction

Specifically for Clippit: are the first three links on the download page for the original/unmodified version? If so, would you mind redirecting them to point to the my copy of the binaries rather than hosting your own? This way the links will automatically point to any updates I release, and I'm also able to keep track of download statistics.

For everyone else: it looks like Clippit made this port by modifying the source code and recompiling. That's a very effective way to do it, but obviously rather time-consuming. If there's interest in creating ports to other languages, I can try to build a translation framework into the next version. I only speak English myself, so any translations would have to come from volunteers, but if there's sufficient interest in this I'll be more than happy to add it to the next release. Please let me know.

Im sorry~~The links have been point to your copy of the binaries
BTW, Google pages is not so good. It said "The bandwidth limit for this site has been exceeded. "while I was downloading the files!!

Nitro322, here is a Chinese version of your program

http://www.hanzify.org/?Go=Show::List&ID=10846

It is at a warez place, even if it is free....

Has anyone on this board ever dealt with reporting false positives to virus companies? I know I'm a bit late in tackling this, but I'd like to essentially submit copies of the binaries that have been reported as infected with a virus to the major virus companies so that they can (hopefully) validate them and fix their definitions. My time is still rather limited at the moment, though, so I was wondering if there was any fast/easy way to do this, rather than looking up contact info for one company at a time.

Any suggestions or previous experience with this topic? Thanks.

It's not a warez place.
That is a Hanzify website named "汉化新世纪", where you can release localized softwares.

Hey nitro,

Universal Extractor I think has replaced 7-zip on my end. It does more than 7-zip could ever do (extracting-wise, that is).

I have 1 problem. Whenever I try to extract the type-2 hotfixes (the 913433 hotfix for example), I get an error about invalid switches. It detects the installer correctly, but it says the switches are incorrect. Is there a way you can fix this for 1.3/1.2.2?

the_guy

Using F-Prot Antivirus and yea its lame you cant exclude anything from resident protector...

I am trying but not a single one has responded back to me. I guess because I am not a paying customer with any of them besides f-prot and even they have not answered me. Basterds!

reporting "false positives" seems to be a waste of time so far. i tried asking avg how to remove them but received no reply.

i searched their .dat files with a hex editor but couldn't find any of interest.

Not a problem as such but I tried to UniExtract PhotoStory3.exe
(it came out of an MSI file to belin with) and get this...

C:\__\__\__\PhotoStory3.exe cannot be extracted.
Filetype returned was: Nothing found



Seems Microsoft have some compiler all of their own?

Also, there is a virus scanner that claims to scan within
ASprotect packed executables. It would be a GODSEND
if those could be unpacked!

Many viruses are put in those ASprotect files because
they are really hard to crack open. The virus scanner that
claims to scan within them is called "Virus Chaser". It can
also scan within UPX EXE files.

Hello nitro.

I don't read all 12 pages of this topic
My request to you - please , add support for InstallShield3 (*.z) , old-NSIS(compressed in BZip2) , MHT-files.

You can use TrID for identify file (now more than 1700 filetypes) - http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html

Add please , useful option in GUI - "detect filetype" and AviExtract (http://members.lycos.co.uk/yugres/download/avixtr.zip)

PS Many thanks for UniExtractor !

@Clippit, thanks for your info.

Ok, I'm starting to plan my change/improvements for the next version. I've gone through each forum post since the last version was released and jotted down all suggestions, which I've listed below. Of course, the anything listed here is not guaranteed to be implemented, but I'll at least look into it and see if it's feasible and/or technically possible. If you have any other suggestions, please speak up now.


Btw, I never did get any feedback to my internationalization question in post 161. Is there sufficient interest in this to make it worth my time? If not, then I'm just going to leave it as it is.

Thanks.

handy little critter -- may have caught a bug?

I tried to look at : http://www.astrosurf.com/astropc/cartes/prog/cdcbase276.exe (other files on same page seem to produce the same result)

UniExtract.exe 121 (exe install all options off) in PIII win98se sp21a returns yellow-! "exe could not be extracted -- appears to be a self-extracting MS CAB file which is supported but extraction failed. see log"

log is 2 bytes: 0d0a.

regards

--edit--
7-zip 442 extracts the exe ok, creating a "presetup.bmp" which identifies a "Ghost installer Wizard ©2002 ginstall Corp"

As far as I'm concerned, I see no need for a internationalization of UniExtract. IMHO dialogs are not
hard to understand and if an user doesn't understand them, then he probably never used a computer.

Guys , nice work with the extractors , I have been looking for something to be able to do this for a while. I mainly work with Wise ( Design Studio and Install manager ) . Extracting the files is one thing but is there anything in the works in relation to reverse engineering it so that you can create or extract the Wise *.wsi *.wse. This way you would have the reg entries and other components.

I've added that issue to my todo list. Thanks for reporting it.


While I agree that the dialgos are not hard to understand, if you cannot speak the language at all then even the simplest prompt can be incomprehensible. I tried playing around with Clippit's version, and even though I wrote the program I still had no idea what it said.

With that said, I'm not at all discounting your opinion that it's not needed. So far you're the only one that's commented on it, and obviously you feel it's not worth the extra work. That's exactly what I'm trying to guage. Thanks for giving your opinion.


I agree that this would be extremely useful, but there's currently no way that I'm aware of to get this data. Keep in mind that Universal Extractor relies entirely on 3rd-party programs to handle all extraction - if there is no existing method available to extract a given archive format, then UniExtract cannot do it either.

If you ever do come across a utility that can do this, though, please post it here. I'd be very happy to include support for it.

Another format that currently is not supported is UHA (UHARC)

UHARC 0.6b can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/uharc06b.zip
Older versions of UHARC can be downloaded from http://www.klaimsoft.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=25

Edit: If you want to support ZIP/Bzip2 you can do the following: extract the archive with 7-zip (using -aos, so no time is wasted extracting already existing files) if Info-Zip gives an exit code of 81.

This is simply amazing!
I didn't know I was looking for this App. until I found it

Great job, thanks.

EDIT:

PS - Will the UPX update be able to to the overlay of Markus & Laszlo?

Great app Nitro322, Thank's

@ nitro322

I'd like to join thanksgiving.

Keep up the good, time saving, work.

Bug report: when I try to right-click on occupied(busy) file getting this error :
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/7196/un...ctorfailvc2.jpg

Hi, nice Tool!

I hope you implement in the next version: Nullsoft NSIS v2.18 to extract Archive, Wihu & kgb archiver.

http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/
http://www.klaimsoft.com/winuha/
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

Surfer, can you please provide a little more detail? I've never seen that error message before with any application. I have absolutely no idea what could cause it. Can you please give me an example that I can follow to duplicate it?


NSIS support is already included, though it could still be considered expiremental as there are certain types of NSIS installers that it still cannot extract.

I believe I've already looked at KGB and determined that it couldn't be supported. I don't remember the details, though, so I'll add it to my list to check again.

ggf31416 had requested support for UHARC archives a few posts ago. I'll look into it as well.

nitro322

Sorry , I can not duplicate this error (it was not from UniExtractor)

I have idea , how UniExtractor will be support more install format's :

Install Shield 3 unpacker : I upload it to : http://up-file.com/download/c37904282852/I...00.062.zip.html

Other greatest tool's ( but they works only in TotalCommander ):
http://wincmd.ru/files/msi-pluswcx.zip (can unpack MSI more correctly , than UniExtractor)
http://www.totalcmd.net/files/MhtUnp_0.1.1.zip (MHT unpacker)
http://wincmd.ru/files/wcx_InstallExplorer_0.9.1.zip (COOL stuff , can unpack script's and files from: Wise , Vise , Inno Setup , Gentee Installer , InstallShield , NullSoft Installer (ver>=1.1o) , SetupFactory , Eschalon , Msi)

Who have any ideas about working without TotalCommander ?

And anybody have ideas about "CreateInstall" unpacking ?

I need help!

But first of all I want to thank you for this great tool!


But now I have a problem. Every time I extract an archive (it doesn't matter which type, or how I produced the archive) I get this message:




The uniextract.txt says:



And everything was extracted to c:\ and not to the chosen destination.

This Problem did occure since reinstalled version 1.2.1, after the installation of the newest Beta of Winrar killed the Explorer context menu integration.

Whats wrong?

I get this error when I try to extract an patch for a game. It's an exe, would it be possible to support C++ self extracting archives in the future, or do they have some sort of inbuilt scipts or something

get the same as above only for C++ 6.0

and another...

u cant extract executable files itself. only sfx archives!

INstall the **** Viewer and copy it. Its a portable app.

You are completly wrong! Most installers can be extracted with the universal extractor, not just sfx archives.

Sorry guys, have been out of town for a couple weeks. Let me try to catch up on some replies.


Surfer, I cannot download Install Shield 3 unpacker from the link you provided. Can you please verify?

As for the other suggestions, as you mentioned, they only work with TotalCommander. If someone can figure out how to make them work indepently of TotalCommander then I'd love to integrate them into UniExtract, but so far I haven't had any luck doing that myself.


I'm not familiar with it, but if you can figure out how to extract files from any of their installers from the command line, please let me know and I'll be happy to add support.


ma$e, I don't know what's wrong off hand. I'd recommend uninstalling UniExtract completely (to remove all existing UniExtract registry keys), rebooting (to force Windows to forget about any associations), then installing it again. If that still doesn't work, let me know.


MisterH, that's pretty generic filetype. It could've been compressed using a variety of different options. The way I handle those now is I have 7zip and InfoZip both try to list the contents of the file; if either can do this, then it can extract the contents as well. If they both fail, then it displays the error message that you're seeing.

Now, it's possible that there may be some other way to extract the files, but I'd need to do some specific testing on that file. If you send me a link to download it, I'll check it out and see if I can find any way to do it.


Boomer, the same information applies here as well.


I think I've tried messing with aspack stuff before and didn't have any luck with it. However, I wouldn't mind trying again to confirm that. Can you send me a link to the file?

I could not solve the PRoblem. I uninstalled both uniextract and Winrar, deleted all registry entrys manually and rebooted. After installing uniextract the error was still there. I do not know whats wrong.

A very nice and usefull utility. Thank you very much

I was just wondering if it can open the Folder wher files are extracted to. It would be helpfull too

sorry

for the install shield files..

thers is many programs you should look too to add

i3comp
to un/pack files with *.z *.lib files

stix_d
to unpack SFX files of install shiled v3.0

i5comp
to un/pack files with *.cab
if the setup is seperated into disks ( you should find data1.cab, data2.cab,.. inside folders like Disk1, Disk2,..) you should combine before extract.. so i5comp can do so..

i6comp (what you did)

i7comp, isunpack,.
it supports v7.0 of install shiled (not v9.0).. i need help on this info guys

olex_d
extracts files from ole files (microsoft doc, ppt, mst, msi,..)

xjpg
extracts jpg files from any documents with jpeg signature

finallly...this post got sticky!! nice....

http://up-file.com/download/c37904451233/I...00.062.zip.html - I reupload IS3 unpacker

any updates on this?

Sorr, ma$e, I don't know what could be causing that problem off the top of my head. Let me give it some more thought and see if I can find a way to replicate it on my end.


That's not a bad idea. I think it might be nice to have a small options page where you can set this option, whether or not you want it to maintain your history in the registry, etc. I wouldn't want to set it by default, though, because it would probably get it my way more often than not.


Thanks, freeko! I'm always on the lookout for better programs to handle extraction. I'll be sure to check these out and see what improvements I can make.


Got it, thanks.


It's still on my todo list, just been very busy with other things. The curious are welcome to check out my software page to some of the other stuff I've been working on:
http://www.legroom.net/mysoft

ggf31416, is there any chance you can repost this file? I didn't download it when you originally posted it, and now it's expired. It sounds like a good test case to work with.

Thanks.