diff --git a/.config/Scripts/extract b/.config/Scripts/extract
index d09a790a..aaf29118 100755
--- a/.config/Scripts/extract
+++ b/.config/Scripts/extract
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+# there are two different ways this script can work.
+# for the first way, uncomment the two lines after the if and place two '.' in front of the /$1 
+#       this creates a new directory in the directory where the compressed file is and dumps the content in it
+# for the second way, comment the two lines under the if and place just one '.' in front of the /$1
+#       this just dumps the content of the compressed file in the same directory of the compressed file 
 if [ -f $1 ] ; then
-        # NAME=${1%.*}
-        # mkdir $NAME && cd $NAME
+        NAME=${1%.*}
+        mkdir $NAME && cd $NAME
         case $1 in
           *.tar.bz2) tar xvjf ../$1 ;;
           *.tar.gz) tar xvzf ../$1 ;;