You can use the Archive Manager application (also known as File Roller) to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. An archive is a file that acts as a container for other files. An archive can contain many files, folders, and subfolders, usually in compressed form. Archive Manager application supports common formats, such as zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2, lzh, and rar. You can use Archive Manager to create, open, and extract a compressed non-archive file.
To start Archive Manager, click
. If you already have a compressed file, double-click the filename in the Nautilus file manager to view the contents of the archive in Archive Manager.Figure 1-21 Archive Manager
In Archive Manager, click
.Select the archive you want to open.
Click
.Archive Manager automatically determines the archive type, and displays the following:
The archive name in the window titlebar.
The archive contents in the display area.
The total number of files in the archive, and the size of the archive when uncompressed, in the statusbar.
To open another archive, click
again. Archive Manager opens each archive in a new window. To open another archive in the same window, you must first click to close the current archive, then click .If you try to open an archive that was created in a format that Archive Manager does not recognize, the application displays an error message.
In Archive Manager, click
.Specify the name and location of the new archive.
Select an archive type from the
drop-down list.Click
.Archive Manager creates an empty archive, but does not yet write the archive to disk. Archive Manager writes a new archive to disk only when the archive contains at least one file. If you create a new archive and quit Archive Manager before you add any files to the archive, Archive Manager deletes the archive.
Add files and folders to the new archive:
Click
or , then select the files or folders you want to add.You cannot add folders to the archive with the
dialog box. Use the dialog box.Click
.Archive Manager adds the files to the current folder in the archive.
You can also add files to an archive in a file manager window without opening Archive Manager. See Section 1.5.2, Archiving Folders for more information.
In Archive Manager, select the files that you want to extract.
Click
.Specify the folder where Archive Manager will extracts the files.
Choose from the following extract options:
Click
.If all of the files in the archive are protected by a password, and you have not specified the password, Archive Manager displays an error dialog.
If some but not all of the files in the archive are protected by a password, and you have not specified the password, Archive Manager does not display an error dialog. However, Archive Manager extracts only the unprotected files to the new archive.
To extract an archived file in a file manager window without opening Archive Manager, right-click the file, then select
.The Extract operation extracts a copy of the specified files from the archive. The extracted files have the same permissions and modification date as the original files that were added to the archive.
The Extract operation does not change the contents of the archive.