{"id":1406,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583613-how-to-extract-archives-using-the-file-manager-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:13:36","slug":"1583613-how-to-extract-archives-using-the-file-manager-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583613-how-to-extract-archives-using-the-file-manager-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Extract Archives Using the File Manager in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Hostinger&rsquo;s file manager allows extracting archives in just a few clicks! <\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The <b>supported formats<\/b> for archive extraction using this feature are zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz, tar.lz4, and tar.sz<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The file manager is not available for websites created with <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/website-builder\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Hostinger Website Builder<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">To extract an archive, go to go to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a><\/b> &rarr; <b>Dashboard<\/b>, search for <b>File Manager<\/b> on the sidebar, and click on it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/369267f5-3b31-4327-876d-2e54dfa46efd.jpg\" alt=\"The hPanel sidebar showing to select File Manager\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Find the archive file, right-click on it, and choose <b>Extract<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/ae777463-e72a-4f69-ab65-1fed895de6c9.jpg\" alt=\"The context menu on an archive file showing how to extract\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">You will be presented with the following options:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/05\/adff68e9-9bd6-4b16-bf40-91b3f3e5cc69.jpg\" alt=\"The Extract archive options: choose folder name, select destination and overwrite existing files\"><\/div><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Choose folder name<\/b> &ndash; if the entered folder does not exist, it will be created<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Select the destination<\/b> &ndash; you can use these options to pick a different location for your unarchived files. Double-click on .. to go to the parent directory<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Currently navigating on<\/b> &ndash; shows the path for folders on the Select the destination area<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Overwrite existing files<\/b> &ndash; mark the checkbox to overwrite existing files<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">Once all is good to go, click on <b>Extract <\/b>to start the process.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">After the extraction is completed, the File Manager will reload &ndash; you can now navigate to the folder you specified to see the content: <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/fe770e73-bc4e-477d-be3c-b7e40f1507df.jpg\" alt=\"The new folder resulted from extracting the archive\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Additional resources<\/b>:<b> <\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"\/support\/5966088-how-to-extract-archives-with-ssh\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">How to Extract Archives with SSH<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"\/support\/5972776-how-to-create-an-archive-in-file-manager\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">How to Create an Archive in File Manager<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extracting compressed files with File Manager at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583613-how-to-extract-archives-using-the-file-manager-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1583613-como-descomprimir-archivos-desde-el-administrador-de-archivos-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1583613-comment-extraire-des-archives-a-l-aide-du-gestionnaire-de-fichiers-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1583613-cara-ekstrak-file-dengan-file-manager-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/1583613-kaip-isskleisti-archyvo-faila-hostinger-failu-tvarkykleje\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1583613-como-extrair-arquivos-no-gerenciador-de-arquivos-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1583613------\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5104,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/5104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}