How to Extract Zip Files Directly on Google Drive: ZIP Extractor

The following guide provides a clear overview of ZIP Extractor, with the most relevant background, details, and practical takeaways.

ZIP Extractor Overview

Imagine someone sending you a set of archives, photos in an email or a zip file from a cloud folder. Besides downloading and unzipping as usual, you can do this in the Google Drive folder with ZIP Extractor.

Install ZIP Extractor.

ZIP Extractor is a Chrome extension that extracts files from Zip files in Google Drive. This utility is extremely useful and time-saving if you work a lot with cloud computing and want to ignore the inconvenience of extracting.

Install the Chrome utility from the Chrome Web Store or you can open Google Drive account> New> More> Connect more apps, search ZIP Extractor and install.

Now, you can select any archive file in Google Drive to extract. Select the file and right-click Open with the ZIP Extractor to open the Zip file stored in Drive. If used for the first time, the utility will ask you to allow ZIP Extractor to access Google Drive. Then, decompression will take a few steps.

• The ZIP Extractor screen will give you the option to extract files. By default, all files are selected.
• Select Extract Now to extract to a new folder inside the current folder. You can also change the destination folder.
• The extracted file will be saved in a folder with the same name as the ZIP file.

Use the ZIP Extractor interface to view the extracted files, share or extract other files. Very easy, isn't it? Remember that this decompression process takes place in cloud computing, so bandwidth power determines the speed of the decompression process.

Do you often work with compressed files in cloud computing? Try using ZIP Extractor and feel!