file-roller right-click extract here (for RAR) does not work

[Gaspard Leon]

Binary package hint: file-roller

file-roller hung when extracting from a solid rar archive with multiple files.

I right-clicked a multi-part rar archive and tried to extract it, and it failed to extract, waiting at the extracting screen forever.

I then tried opening the archive in file-roller, and it opened ok, I clicked Extract, then in the Extract dialog, clicked Extract... nothing happened

So then I went to a terminal and typed unrar e <rarfilename> and it worked..

Anyone else got a multi-part archive to extract from the right click, or file-roller gui?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Could you attach an example to the bug?

[Gaspard Leon (gaspard.leon)]

sorry, I'm using ubuntu (GNOME) 7.10, with latest updates when the bug was found.

File... well it was pretty big so I deleted it after extracting with unrar.. I will try some more and report back when I can find an example.

cheers,

Gaspard

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

Hi,

You should check the rar version that created the file.
the free version of unrar only handles rar version 1.

[Gaspard Leon (gaspard.leon)]

Hi,

Since then I noticed an issue with file roller... when you click extract in the gui, it brings up a folder chooser
if you click the extract button on the dialog *it does nothing*...
UNTIL you have to go out of the starting folder, go back into it by double clicking the actual folder, (clicking the bread-crumb doesn't work)

This is confusing until you know about this issue, once you know about it it's simply annoying.

Cheers,
Gaspard

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in hardy?

[Gaspard Leon (gaspard.leon)]

The main issue here is resolved...

I can right-click and extract successfully from all the multi-file and single file rar archives I could find laying around on my hard drives.

The secondary issue (with the extract dialog inside of file-roller not responding to extract unless you pick a folder) is still there.
I should probably open a second bug or find an existing bug for the secondary issue.

Cheers,

Gaspard

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for the update, closing the bug since that works correctly now, you can open a new bug about the other issue