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.

  •  penquin   ( @penquin@lemmy.kde.social ) 
    10•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   ( @not_amm@beehaw.org ) 
      1•11 months 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)

  •  verysoft   ( @verysoft@kbin.social ) 
    10•1 year ago

    I hate when archives are just a folder inside, now I gotta manually move the files up a level into the directory I wanted them in the first place.

    I see this feature is for when there is no folder inside. I come across this a lot less personally.

    •  russjr08   ( @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net ) OP
      4•1 year ago

      That’s perfectly fair! I always seem to have a 50/50 coin toss of whether there will be a folder inside the archive or not.

      I think if things were more consistent for what I end up having, I wouldn’t mind it if archives didn’t have a folder or if they always had a folder, rather than the current state.

      I suppose in your case, it would be cool if there were a config option to make this do the reverse, unpack the files within the subdirectory of the archive to your current directory.

  •  Mio   ( @Mio@feddit.nu ) 
    3•1 year ago

    When I am on Windows and extract, I always get the top folder, but then it appears some compressed a folder with that exact name so I end up with two folders. Have to clean that up manually is really bad. I use Windows built in for zip and Winrar. Never even though about this problem before that it could be handled that way. Thanks for the tip!