Title: Archive Extractor
Last modified: January 29, 2018

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# Archive Extractor

 *  Resolved [antonyjosephsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonyjosephsmith/)
 * (@antonyjosephsmith)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-extractor/)
 * Are there any plans to release an archive extractor tool?
 * Thanks
 * Antony
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 *  Plugin Author [Yani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yaniiliev/)
 * (@yaniiliev)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-extractor/#post-9921891)
 * [@antonyjosephsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonyjosephsmith/)
 * There is [https://traktor.servmask.com](https://traktor.servmask.com) that lets
   you see what files are inside the archive.
 * The extractor is part of the plugin – when you import a backup, the files are
   extracted from the archive.
 * We don’t have any plans to allow editing files inside the archive for now – we
   think it will create more trouble than good for quite a large number of our users.
 * Do you have a specific use case to share with us?
 *  Thread Starter [antonyjosephsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonyjosephsmith/)
 * (@antonyjosephsmith)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-extractor/#post-9922076)
 * Yeah I’ve got a 19GB archive of a site that seems to have been installed on an
   older version of WordPress, I could do with extracting and viewing the untouched
   sql database so I can check some parameters and the wp version to make sure I
   can match the WP Version as currently a straight import into 4.9.2 failed on 
   my first two attempt and shifting a 19GB archive round isn’t fun. Plus it’s of
   dubious origin and may be infected with malware so I would have ideally liked
   to perform a scan of all the files before running it – which I can’t while it’s
   archived.
 * I find it bizarre you ask for use cases yet make a tool, Traktor, which to all
   intents and purposes is pretty much useless, it shows me a file structure and
   that’s it, I really cannot see any use case for it at all. What do you guys consider
   are use cases for it?
 * If you’ve no intention of adding this functionality or at least creating even
   an unsupported tool on github so only the savvy can use it, then I’m just going
   to use an alternative.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by [antonyjosephsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonyjosephsmith/).
 *  Plugin Author [Yani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yaniiliev/)
 * (@yaniiliev)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-extractor/#post-9922224)
 * Yes, knowing the WordPress version is important. We are making a few changes 
   in the plugin that will try to address better the compatibility between different
   WordPress versions.
 * What error message do you get when you import on the latest version of WordPress?
   You can turn on debugging with [https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress)
 * To find the WordPress version, you can use the `head` command on the archive.
   Here is an example:
 *     ```
       head -c9000 migration-20180101-223541-606.wpress
       package.json1811476311743.{"SiteURL":"http:\/\/migration","HomeURL":"http:\/\/migration","Plugin":{"Version":"6.62"},"WordPress":{"Version":"4.0.12","Content":"\/var\/www\/wp-content"}}
       ```
   
 * What this will tell you is that the backup is from [http://migration](http://migration).
   It was exported with All-in-One WP Migration version 6.62 from WordPress version
   4.0.12.
 * There is a Go library on GitHub that one can use to work with a WPRESS archive:
   [https://github.com/yani-/wpress](https://github.com/yani-/wpress)
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by [Yani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yaniiliev/).
      Reason: fixing a typo
 *  Thread Starter [antonyjosephsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonyjosephsmith/)
 * (@antonyjosephsmith)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-extractor/#post-9922972)
 * I’ve tried running the Go library without success, I’ve also tried this fork 
   [https://github.com/fifthsegment/Wpress-Extractor](https://github.com/fifthsegment/Wpress-Extractor)
   however I get a fatal error every time and only a partially extracted archive.
 * Yeah I’m familiar with wp debugging but what would be really helpful is if I 
   could just extract the damn archive. Plus none of your suggestions offer a solution
   to scan for any malware.
 * Anyway, you clearly don’t want to do it for reasons which are really quite unclear
   so I’m just going to look at alternatives.
 * Antony
 *  Plugin Author [Yani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yaniiliev/)
 * (@yaniiliev)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-extractor/#post-9926772)
 * Thank you for your feedback.

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