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How to use Xarchive?
Posted: Sun 05 Jan 2014, 23:56
by fixit
I can not figure out how to use Xarchive.
I would like to be able to right click on a file and have a menu pick to compress it in zip format.
I don't think I have a wrapper for zips.
Thanks.
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 00:17
by mikeb
Its a bit manual.... you change the 'new file name' to end in .zip rather than .tar.gz when the dialog pops up...if that makes sense
mike
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 00:23
by ardvark
Hi all...
I've been having a problem with this program, too. I can't ever seem to get it to extract anything completely.
Regards...
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 00:46
by mikeb
I've been having a problem with this program, too. I can't ever seem to get it to extract anything completely. Sad
Hmm selecting nothing should do a full extraction.
I did modify the program and scripts but don't recall having done anything with respect to your problem....only with making archives and faster listings and using 7zip more.
Sometimes I had problems with rar archives with odd filenames inside but usually the listing is incomplete.
Do you have a sample to test?
mike
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 01:15
by fixit
thanks mike.
I got confused when it wanted to create a folder which in reality was the compressed zip file.
It made the archive pretty quickly.
Andy
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 01:51
by ardvark
mikeb wrote:Hmm selecting nothing should do a full extraction.
Do you have a sample to test?
Hi Mike...
Correct, yes, but even choosing that method, Xarchive can't extract any of the files.
I don't have a sample that's within the size limit but my latest attempt was with xjigsaw
here. I was able to extract the .gz file to a tar,gz but can't get beyond that.
Regards...
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 15:50
by mikeb
Ah that particular file seems to be a case of the website/browser misrecognising the mime type and changing it to gz which is wrong...renaming to .pet should sort that out.
mike
Re: Xarchive help
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 16:15
by L18L
fixit wrote:... compress it in zip format....
learning
and
is not an option, no
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 20:09
by ardvark
mikeb wrote:Ah that particular file seems to be a case of the website/browser misrecognising the mime type and changing it to gz which is wrong...renaming to .pet should sort that out.
Hi Mike...
Thank you but unfortunately, while renaming the file worked, it failed to install.
Regards...
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 20:17
by mikeb
Well it might be a bad pet..corrupt or something.
If you rename it to .tar.gz it should normal open in xarchive
mike
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 20:52
by ardvark
mikeb wrote:If you rename it to .tar.gz it should normal open in xarchive
It doesn't do that either. When I rename it that way, nothing shows up. Perhaps a bug report might be in order?
Regards...
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 21:10
by mikeb
bug report for the pet in question maybe....
mike
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 21:12
by ardvark
mikeb wrote:bug report for the pet in question maybe....
Except that this is a problem I have all the time with it.
Regards...
Posted: Mon 06 Jan 2014, 21:15
by mikeb
Ok...well pets are not handled by xarchive...perhaps there is a bigger problem afoot...
mike