Thread: Question about archiving files.

Ok I want to compress all the files in one folder into individual .zip or .rar files on windows, but there is a pantsload of files and it'll take me forever to do them all one by one. Is there a .bat script i can put in to the 'send to' folder to do this? or some other way? I have some other scripts that make filelists and such but i didn't write them nor do i know how. I just found them with google but i can't word it right for google to find a fix to this. any help greatly appreciated, thanks.

You can do it into 7z or zip files with 7-zip's 7z.exe

You'd make a bat or cmd script in that directory with

Code:

whole load of stuff here

"c:\program files\7-zip\7z.exe" a -ai [something] -t 7zORzip

wholeloadofstuffhere2

In whole load of stuff here, you'd want to somehow make a variable that points to the first file, the first time the batch script is initiated. In [something] you'd type the variable you set in the 1st whole load of stuff. In wholeloadofstuffhere2 you'd want to make it so it loops back to the beginning, and the variable calculation is done again, pointing to the next file in the folder.

Haven't touched batch files in yonks, don't remember how to do the whole load of stuffs :\

Google "batch zip toolkit". Shareware with 30-day trial.

thanks