Extract Files from Backup - this dialog box will extract individual files from a WinRescue backup file.

First, decide if the Backup that you want to restore was compress or not.  Compressed Backup are put in files ending with .zip or .??z.  Put a check in the "Extract from Compressed Backup" checkbox, if the Backup is compressed.

Second, select the WinRescue backup file to extract from by clicking on the ... button next to the Backup File textbox.  WinRescue will read the files in the backup file and show them in the Contents list box.  If the backup file is big, this may take a while.

If the Backup is uncompressed, you can select the Backup directory or any subdirectory of it.

If you gave notes to the Backup, the Notes button will be enabled.  Click on it to view the Notes.

Third, check the files that you want to extract.  There are two buttons at the bottom of the list to help in this.  The Check All Files button will check all of the files in the list (when you check all of the files using this button, it will change to Uncheck All Files, so that it can uncheck all files).  The Entire Directory button will check or uncheck all of the files in the desired directory.  To use this you must first check or uncheck a file in the desired directory then click on the Entire Directory button.  If you checked a file, all of the other files in that directory will become checked.  If you unchecked a file, all of the other files will become unchecked.

Fourth, select where you want to extract the files to.  This is found in a dropdown box labeled, Extract to:.  Selecting Original Location will extract the files to the original location from which they were backed up.  Selecting Temporary Directory will extract the files to the Temp directory of the drive which has WinRescue on it.  And selecting Select Location will open a dialog box which will allow you to select the location from the hard drive.

Below the Extract to: dropdown box is the Recurse Directories checkbox.  Check this if you want the original directories to be reproduced in the selected directory.

And last of all, press the Extract button to extract the checked files.

Please note that if you have thousands of files checked to extract that the Extractor will take a long time to begin extracting.  During this time it may seem to be locked up, but it is not.  Just wait and it will eventually do its job.  For ten thousand files, it could take over an hour.

When you are finished, press Exit.