"Extract Here" context command in nautilus extracts archive in <archivename>_FILES directory rather than current directory

[Mark Florian]

Binary package hint: file-roller

Right click on an archive in nautilus, select "Extract Here" and a new directory called <name of archive>_FILES is made, and within this the archive contents are expanded.

I believe this behaviour is a regression. This used to happen in GNOME 2.10, or .12, and was fixed to the correct behaviour since then. Now it's gone back to this illogical behaviour.

The contents of the archive are expected to be extracted directly into the current directory (the same in which the archive exists), as "Extract Here" suggests.

[Chris Lord (cwiiis)]

'Me too'

[Warbo (warbo)]

If there is only one file then it is extracted into the current directory. It makes sense to extract multiple files into a directory like it currently does. To move the files from the created directory to the current directory one simply has to cut/paste them, whilst to do it the other way around would require making a folder, knowing what files were in the directory, selecting them individually with ctrl-click then cutting/pasting them into the directory. I like it how it is, but if you insist then perhaps "Extract" rather than "Extract Here"?

[Chris Lord (cwiiis)]

The real solution to that problem would be to select the extracted files, not to arbitarily have different behaviour depending on the amount of files in the archive

[Mark Florian (markrian)]

Chris's idea is more intuitive I think. Also, it's been a while since I've encountered an archive containing multiple files which doesn't have a parent folder, making this extra folder redundant.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

You can read http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324991 upstream on the topic. It seems to be a design decision and not a bug. Extracting one file or directory to a subdirectory would make no sense, extracting 100 files to the current directory can be confusing, the logic seems to be appropriate. Maybe you could argue upstream if you disagree with that?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324991 was marked as a duplicate of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168388 - which is marked as FIXED. I'd rather close this bug also.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Closing the bug.