Mass Compress Individual ROMs?

[KingPizza]

I have a full set of Nintendo 64 ROMs that I want to compress in to individual ZIP files to save space. I can only figure out how to add them all at once to a ZIP file. How do I compress each individually without doing it 1 by 1, which would take hours.

[JoeViking245]

You could create a batch file and run it inside the folder where your roms are located.  If you have 7zip installed, it would look something like this:

for %%i in (*.*) do "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "%%~ni.zip" "%%i"

 

[KingPizza]

This is exactly what I needed, thanks! The only thing I changed was telling the batch file to delete the source ROM after compression, to save space.

for %%i in (*.*) do "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "%%~ni.zip" "%%i" -sdel

Edited April 17, 2021 by KingPizza

[DeadVoivod]

Select files, right click, open with WinRAR, settings --> files, tick the box 'put each file in a separate archive', DONE. 

Options --> delete files after archiving

Why mess with command lines?

Edited April 17, 2021 by DeadVoivod

[KingPizza]

4 hours ago, DeadVoivod said:

Select files, right click, open with WinRAR, settings --> files, tick the box 'put each file in a separate archive', DONE. 

Options --> delete files after archiving

Why mess with command lines?

I googled this question for literal hours last night and this was never mentioned. I just tested it and yeah, WinRAR has this feature built in. That saves me a lot of time, thanks.