Extracting tarball in Nautilus

[Dotan Cohen]

On 14 May 2010 06:11, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 05:58 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Yes, that is exactly how KDE does it as well. I suspect a relation
>> between the missing menu item and the error that I get when I try to
>> extract "here".
>
> Permissions? Is it possible that the archive is in a location that you
> are not permitted to write to? A quick test here suggests that the menu
> doesn't change, but KDA could be different. Odd error message if it's a
> permissions thing, though.
>

No, no permissions issue. Dolphin has no problem decompressing the
archive in place.


> Is it a network thing? Is the folder is mounted in a way that the
> archive manager doesn't understand? I get that in some apps when they
> try to open files that have names like "smb://....."
>

Local disk!



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