• Extract a Developer Archive
  • Extract a Developer Archive
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  • If you plan to edit any of the documents contained in an archive, you must first extract the archive file. To do this, you use the command-line utility OdArc. After saving your changes to the documents, you use the same Odarc utility to recompress the archive so that it can be imported.
  • Odarc is stored in the directory in which the Developer is installed. Therefore, you must change to this directory in order to execute OdArc.exe from the command line.
  • The syntax for extraction is as follows:
  • odarc /x <archive_path> <destination_folder>
  • where
  • <archive_path> is the filename, including absolute path, of the archive to be extracted
  • <destination_folder> is the location for the extracted files
  • During archive extraction, the OdArc utility processes the selected archive and writes its contents to the specified location in the form of an archive manifest and a collection of folders for the documents contained in the archive. Because the functioning of the archive depends on its relative structure, you should always extract each archive to a clean, empty folder, so that the folder contains only the extracted archive files. This destination_folder location can be a subfolder of the directory containing the archive to be extracted, or it can be a completely different location. However, you should not extract an archive into the same folder in which the archive itself is located.
  • As an example, consider a Developer archive file named "test.odarc" that was exported to the "temp" directory at the root of the local computer and is to be extracted to a subfolder named "extract" in the same directory, the command line should read:
  • odarc /x c:\temp\test.odarc c:\temp\extract
  • Tip:
  • odarc /x “c:\documents and settings\userid\desktop\export\test.odarc” “c:\documents and settings\userid\desktop\export\extract”