I hope this doesn’t violate the low-quality rule. For those who don’t know, when you right click an archive in Dolphin, the extract menu has a “Extract archive here, autodetect subfolder” option and its absolutely brilliant! If you’ve ever extracted a zip, tar, etc and ended up with files splattered everywhere this feature will prevent that. Basically when you choose this option it will:

  • Look to see if the archive has a top level folder, if it does, it will extract it normally
  • If it does not (so all of the files are at the top level), it will automatically create a folder for the archive and extract those top level files into it

It’s something I really wish other file managers had, and is just another one of those features from the KDE team that gives me the “The developer(s) who created this also use this in their daily lives” impression (which is not to say that others don’t). You can of course just open your favorite archive utility and manually check, then manually make the folder yourself and extract the files into there, but this lets me skip those couple of steps and I appreciate that so much.

  • markstos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s a useful feature, but I couldn’t have guessed your explanation from the name.

    It seems to me that the default extract option should work that way and this option should just be removed from the menu.

    I have never once wanted extracting an archive file to litter the current directory with files.

    The only exception would be an archive which contains a single inner file.

  • penquin@lemmy.kde.social
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    1 year ago

    Funny enough, I discovered this a couple of weeks ago when I extracted a zip file with the top option and I had like 100 files all over my downloads directory. I was so pissed I had to delete them all one by one and make sure that I don’t delete the files that I actually want there. It was so painful. Then looked at the bottom one and it made sense and it was an “aha I fucking love kde” moment.

    • not_amm@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t Ctrl+Z undo the extraction? I may be dreaming, but I remember there was a fast option to delete all the files extracted. Anyway, we already know about autodetection B)

  • Kyrinar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Holy shit, that’s awesome. I always get annoyed when there’s no top level and I have to make one manually. Thanks for sharing!