Extracting Files and Directories with Your Hosting Account
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Last Updated:
June 11, 2017 1:23 PM
NOTE: Before you start, click here to see which version of the FTP File Manager is in your Control Panel. This help article applies to the New FTP File Manager. If you are using the Classic FTP File Manager, see Unarchiving Files and Directories with Your Hosting Account
To Extract Files and Directories
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- Click Web Hosting.
- Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
- From the Tools section, click File Manager.
- Navigate to the directory in which the file to be unarchived is stored, and then select the compressed file you want to extract.
- Click the Extract icon in the action bar.
- Extract to — Uses the default destination and lets you enter the name of a new or existing destination folder. To navigate to an existing directory, you can click
Browse and select the folder into which you want to extract the selected file. - Overwrite existing file — Overwrites any files or directories with the same name within the selected destination directory.
- Extract to — Uses the default destination and lets you enter the name of a new or existing destination folder. To navigate to an existing directory, you can click
- Click OK.
NOTE: You can only extract one file at a time and it cannot exceed 20MB.
Your file is extracted in the selected destination directory. All files and directories are now uncompressed.
For information on archiving items in your hosting account, see Archiving Files and Directories with Your Hosting Account
