Zip and Delete Folder Using 7zip

To Create a batch to archive and delete a folder, first, we need 7zip to be installed on our computer. You can download the latest version of 7zip here.

After installing 7zip, copy following commands to a text file and save it as archive.bat :

@echo off

rem Echo what exactly we are doing
echo "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -r -tzip "%~nx1.zip" -mx9 "%~f1\*.*"

rem Run 7zip with arguments
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -r -tzip "%~nx1.zip" -mx9 "%~f1\*.*"

rem Delete folder silently
rem rmdir /s/q "%~f1"

pause

Caution: If you don’t have 7zip installed on your computer, this script will only delete your folder. So I added rem in front of delete folder line (rmdir /s/q "%~f1"). After testing that this script works fine on your computer, you can remove rem in front of rmdir line to enable deletion of the folder.

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Usage

Drop any directory on the batch file, it will create a zip archive and delete that folder.

Similarly, you can use -mx0 argument to just store your folder without compression.

If you don’t want to delete your folder just remove rmdir line.

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