Automatic RAR deletion
 

Is there a compression program out there that can automatically delete RAR files after a successful decompression?

I hate having to decompress large numbers of binaries from newsgroups, then having to delete them by hand every time.

I think Winrar has an option to do that just as it has one to delete files after you've compressed them.

I've gone through WinRAR's options multiple times, and just double-checked to be sure, but I don't see anything.

Sorry, no option exists in Winrar for that. RacinReaver was referring to WinRar's ability to delete files after you compressed them, not rar files after you decompressed them.

Well, I knew it had the one, and upon looking it seems it actually doesn't have the setting for the other way. Weird, I could swear it did that. :(

If you're doing all this within a folder, then you could just choose to sort by filetype and then select all the .rar files that way, megalith.

It should be quite easy to create a BATCH-script that receives a directory path as parameter and unpacks every RAR-archive in that folder (via the commandline unpacker), after which it deletes the archive (and keeps it in the event that unpacking fails for whatever reason).

Grab-it has an option to decompress and delete rars after finishing the downloads, it can also check par2 and delete the par2 files after recovery.

Unfortunately, GrabIt is incredibly slow. NewsLeecher is far superior...other than lacking the ability to do the above.