Extract only some specific folders from ZIP file in MacOS

I selected two folders (Foo and Foobar) on my Desktop and zipped them into Archiver.zip. I then unzipped the Foobar folder and its contents from the zip archive into a new folder named Foobar or any other arbitrary name using:

unzip Archive.zip "Foobar/*" -d Foobar

This writes all of the associated zipped Foobar folder contents into the designated Foobar folder. Note, beware of namespace collisions for the output folder designation. I copied the Archive.zip file into another desktop folder before executing the above syntax. Tested: macOS 11.6.1. I would expect this to work on Monterey too.

Reference: How to extract only a specific folder from a zipped archive to a given directory?

Unzip - RAR ZIP 7Z Unarchiver from the App Store will do what you want. It's free.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unzip-rar-zip-7z-unarchiver/id1537056818?mt=12

Using a very simplistic point of view, this is what I would do

• copy the zip file to a blank external drive
• unzip the file on the ED
• copy the project files from the ED to your computer
• format the the ED

I was about to recommend The UnArchiver, but it does not seem to allow one to extract selectable content from within the zip archive, and extracts everything. So the time to market, so to speak, is to use the command line solution as I offered earlier.

You can check the Mac App Store by searching for unzip if you need a visual interface product, but probably not all give you piecemeal unzip capability.

It's all or nothing.