Archive Manager, also known as Engrampa, allows you to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. 2019 MATE Documentation Project 2009 Paul Cutler 2006 2008 Paolo Bacchilega 2003 2004 Sun Microsystems 2003 Paolo Bacchilega 2002 Alexander Kirillov MATE Documentation Project GNOME Documentation Project MATE Documentation Project MATE Desktop Sun GNOME Documentation Team Sun Microsystems Paolo Bacchilega GNOME Documentation Project Alexander Kirillov GNOME Documentation Project kirillov@math.sunysb.edu Paul Cutler GNOME Documentation Project pcutler@foresightlinux.org 1.10.0 July 2015 Wolfgang Ulbrich MATE Documentation Project 2.26.0 March 2009 Paul Cutler GNOME Documentation Project 2.24.0 July 2008 Paolo Bacchilega GNOME Documentation Project 2.6 April 2006 Paolo Bacchilega GNOME Documentation Project 2.5 March 2004 Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project 2.4 February 2004 Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project 2.3 August 2003 Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project 2.2 June 2003 Sun GNOME Documentation Team GNOME Documentation Project 2.1 January 2003 Paolo Bacchilega GNOME Documentation Project 2.0 June 2002 Alexander Kirillov GNOME Documentation Project This manual describes version 1.22 of Archive Manager. Engrampa engrampa Archiving Archives Adding files to Archives Deleting files from Archives Opening Archives Viewing Archives Extracting Archives Creating

You can use the Archive Manager application to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. An archive is a file that acts as a container for other files. An archive can contain many files, folders, and subfolders, usually in compressed form. Archive Manager provides only a graphical interface, and relies on command-line utilities such as tar, gzip, and bzip2 for archive operations. If you have the appropriate command-line tools installed on your system, Archive Manager supports the archive formats listed in the following table. Format Filename Extension 7-zip archive .7z ACE archive .ace Alzip archive .alz AR archive .ar ARJ archive .arj Microsoft Cabinet archive .cab CPIO archive .cpio Debian package .deb, .udeb raw CD image .iso Java archive .jar Enterprise Application aRchive .ear Web Application Resource or Web application ARchive .war LHA archive .lha, .lzh Roshal ARchive .rar Comic Book (Rar-compressed) .cbr RPM package .rpm Tar archive .tar Tar archive compressed with bzip .tar.bz or .tbz Tar archive compressed with bzip2 .tar.bz2 or .tbz2 Tar archive compressed with gzip .tar.gz or .tgz Tar archive compressed with lzip .tar.lz or .tlz Tar archive compressed with lzop .tar.lzo or .tzo Tar archive compressed with compress .tar.Z or .taz Tar archive compressed with 7zip .tar.7z StuffIt archive .bin or .sit Zip archive .zip Comic Book (Zip-compressed) .cbz Zoo archive .zoo The most common archive format on Linux and Unix-like systems is the tar archive compressed with gzip or bzip2. The most common archive format on Microsoft Windows systems is the archive created with PKZIP or WinZip.

A compressed non-archive file is a file that is created when you use bzip2, gzip, lzip, lzop, compress or rzip to compress a non-archive file. For example, file.txt.gz is created when you use gzip to compress file.txt. You can use Archive Manager to create, open and extract a compressed non-archive file.

This section provides information on how to start Archive Manager, and describes the Archive Manager user interface.

You can start Archive Manager in the following ways: Applications menu Choose AccessoriesArchive Manager. Command line Execute the following command: engrampa

When you start Archive Manager, the following window is displayed:

Shows Engrampa main window.

The Archive Manager window contains the following elements: Menubar The menus on the menubar contain all of the commands that you need to work with archives in Archive Manager. Toolbar The toolbar contains a subset of the commands that you can access from the menubar. Archive Manager displays the toolbar by default. To hide the toolbar, choose ViewToolbar. To show the toolbar, choose ViewToolbar again. Folderbar The folderbar enables you to navigate among folders within an archive. Archive Manager displays the folderbar only in folder view. See for more information. Display area The display area displays the contents of the archive. Statusbar The statusbar displays information about current Archive Manager activity and contextual information about the archive contents. Archive Manager displays the statusbar by default. To hide the statusbar, choose ViewStatusbar. To show the statusbar, choose ViewStatusbar again. When you right-click in the Archive Manager window, the application displays a popup menu. The popup menu contains the most common contextual archive commands.

Several Archive Manager dialogs (New, Open, Extract,...) enable you to browse files and folders on your computer. Refer to the Desktop User Guide to learn more about using the file browsing dialogs. You can also refer to the Bookmarks section of the Desktop User Guide to learn how you can use the Places pane to access your favorite locations.

When you use Archive Manager to work with an archive, all changes are saved to disk immediately. For example, if you delete a file from an archive, Archive Manager deletes the file as soon as you click OK. This behavior is different to that of most applications, which save the changes to disk only when you quit the application or select Save in the menu. If an archive is very large, or you have a slow system, some archive actions can take significant time. To abort the current action, press Esc. Alternatively, choose ViewStop, or click Stop in the toolbar. In Archive Manager, you can perform the same action in several ways. For example, you can open an archive in the following ways: UI Component Action Window Drag an archive into the Archive Manager window from another application such as a file manager. Menubar Choose ArchiveOpen. If you have recently opened the archive, it will be listed directly in the Archive menu. Toolbar Click on the Open toolbar button. If you have recently opened the archive, click on the down arrow near the Open toolbar button. Right-click popup menu Right-click on the archive, then choose Open from the popup menu. Shortcut keys Press CtrlO. This manual documents functionality from the menubar.

Archive Manager enables you to add, extract, or delete several files at once. To apply an action to all files that match a certain pattern, enter the pattern in the text box. The pattern can include standard wildcard symbols such as * to match any string, and ? to match any single symbol. You can enter several patterns separated by semicolons. Archive Manager applies the action to all files that match at least one of the patterns. The examples in the following table show how to use filename patterns to select files. Pattern Files Matched * All files *.tar* All files with extension tar, including those in which the tar extension is followed by any sequence of symbols, such as filename.tar.gz *.jpg; *.jpeg All files with extension jpg and all files with extension jpeg file?.gz All files with extension gz that have the name "file" followed by any single character, e.g. file2.gz, filex.gz.

To open an archive, perform the following steps: Choose ArchiveOpen to display the Open dialog. Alternatively press CtrlO, or click Open in the toolbar. Select the archive that you want to open. Click Open. Archive Manager automatically determines the archive type, and displays: The archive name in the window titlebar The archive contents in the display area The number files and folders (objects) in the current location, and their size when uncompressed, in the statusbar To open another archive, choose ArchiveOpen again. Archive Manager opens each archive in a new window. You can't open another archive in the same window. If you try to open an archive that was created in a format that Archive Manager does not recognize, the application displays an error message. See for a list of supported formats.

To select all files in an archive, choose EditSelect All or press CtrlA. To deselect all files in an archive, choose EditDeselect All or press ShiftCtrlA.

To extract files from an open archive, perform the following steps: Select the files that you want to extract. To select more files, press-and-hold Ctrl and click on the files you want to select. Choose ArchiveExtract to display the Extract dialog. Alternatively click Extract in the toolbar. Select the folder where Archive Manager extracts the files. Select the required extract options. For more information about the extract options, see . Click Extract. If all of the files in the archive are protected by a password, and you have not specified it, Archive Manager asks you to enter the password. If some but not all of the files in the archive are protected by a password, and you have not specified the password, Archive Manager does not ask for a password. However, Archive Manager extracts only the unprotected files. For more information about passwords, see . Archive Manager also provides ways of extracting files from an archive in a file manager window, without opening a Archive Manager window. See for more information. The Extract operation extracts a copy of the specified files from the archive. The extracted files have the same permissions and modification date as the original files that were added to the archive. The Extract operation does not change the contents of the archive. For information on how to delete files from an archive, see .

To close the current archive and the current Archive Manager window, choose Archive Close , or press CtrlW. There is no way to close the current archive but not the Archive Manager window.

In addition to opening existing archives, you can also create new archives with Archive Manager.

To create an archive, perform the following steps: Choose ArchiveNew to display the New dialog. Alternatively press CtrlN, or click New in the toolbar. Specify the folder where Archive Manager places the new archive clicking on the entry in the Save in folder drop-down list. If the folder is not present in list, click on Browse for other folders, and select the folder. Alternatively, enter the path in the Name text box. Enter the name of the new archive, including the file extension, in the Name text box. Alternatively you can specify the archive name without extension, and then select the archive type from the Archive type drop-down menu, this way the extension will be added automatically. Select the required create options clicking on Other Options. For more information about the create options, see . Click New. Archive Manager creates an empty archive, but does not yet write the archive to disk. Add files to the new archive as described in . Archive Manager writes a new archive to disk only when the archive contains at least one file. If you create a new archive and quit Archive Manager before you add any files to the archive, Archive Manager deletes the archive.

To add files to an archive, perform the following steps: Decide where in the archive you want to add the files, then open that location in the archive. Choose EditAdd Files to display the Add Files dialog, or click Add Files in the toolbar. Select the files that you want to add. To select more files press-and-hold Ctrl and click the files. Click Add. Archive Manager adds the files to the current folder in the archive. You cannot add folders to the archive with the Add Files dialog. To add a folder see . The Add Files dialog provides the Add only if newer option, see for more information on this option. You can also add files to an archive in a file manager window, without opening an Archive Manager window. See for more information. The Add operation adds a copy of the specified files or folders to the archive. Archive Manager does not remove the original files, which remain unchanged in the file system. The copies that are added to the archive have the same permissions and modification date as the original files.

To add a folder to an archive, perform the following steps: Decide where in the archive you want to add the files, then open that location in the archive. Choose EditAdd a Folder to display the Add a Folder dialog. Select the folder that you want to add. Click Add. Archive Manager adds the folder to the current folder in the archive. The Add a Folder dialog provides several advanced options. See for more information.

To convert an archive to another format and save as a new file, perform the following steps: Open the archive that you want to convert. Choose ArchiveSave As to display the Save dialog. Enter the new archive name in the Name text box. Select the new format from the Archive type drop-down list. Alternatively, enter the filename extension in the Name text box, and select Automatic from the Archive type drop-down list. Select the required create options clicking on Other Options. For more information about the create options, see . Click Save. If all of the files in the archive are protected by a password, and you have not specified it, Archive Manager asks you to enter the password. If some but not all of the files in the archive are protected by a password, and you have not specified the password, Archive Manager does not ask for a password. However, Archive Manager copies only the unprotected files to the new archive. For more information about passwords, see .

You can modify the contents of an archive in several ways.

For security, you might want to encrypt the files that you add to an archive. If the archive format supports encryption, you can specify a password to encrypt the files that you add to the archive. Currently, only 7-Zip, ZIP, RAR and ARJ archives support encryption. To specify a password for file encryption, perform the following steps: Choose Edit Password to display the Password dialog. Enter the password in the Password text box. Click OK. Archive Manager uses the password to encrypt the files that you add to the current archive, and to decrypt the files that you extract from the current archive. Archive Manager deletes the password when you close the archive. For information on how to check whether an archive contains encrypted files, see . The encryption provided by archive utilities is weak and insecure. If security is important, use a strong encryption tool such as GNU Privacy Guard.

To rename a file in an archive, perform the following steps: Select the file that you want to rename. Choose EditRename, or press F2, to display the Rename dialog. Enter the new filename in the New file name text box. Click Rename.

To copy files in an archive, perform the following steps: Select the files that you want to copy. Choose EditCopy, or press CtrlC. Open the location where you want to put the copied files. Choose EditPaste, or press CtrlV.

To move files in an archive, perform the following steps: Select the files that you want to move. Choose EditCut, or press CtrlX. Open the location where you want to put the moved files. Choose EditPaste, or press CtrlV.

To delete files from an archive, perform the following steps: Select the files that you want to delete. Choose EditDelete or press Delete to display the Delete dialog. Select one of the following delete options: All files Delete all files from the archive. Selected files Delete the selected files from the archive. Files Delete from the archive all files that match the specified pattern. See for more information about filename patterns. Click OK.

To modify a file in an archive perform the following steps: Double-click the file that you want to open. Alternatively right-click the file and choose Open. Edit the file opened in step 1, and then save your changes. Archive Manager shows a confirmation dialog, asking confirmation to update the file in the archive with the changes you made. Click on Update. Archive Manager uses the system-defined associations between file types and programs to determine the appropriate application to launch for a specific file. These assocations can be displayed and modified in the Open With tab of the file properties dialog. If Archive Manager cannot determine the appropriate application, Archive Manager displays the Open Files dialog to let you choose an application, as described in below.

You can use an application specified by you, rather than the default application, to modify a file. To use an external application to open a file: Right click the file. Choose Open With.... Archive Manager displays the Open Files dialog, which lists all of the applications that can open files of the specified type. To select one of the applications, double-click the application name or click on the application name and then click Open. Alternatively, enter the application name in the Application text box and then click Open to launch the application of your choice. Once the application starts follow the procedure from step 2 as described in .

Archive Manager enables you to view several aspects of an archive.

To view the properties of an archive, choose ArchiveProperties to display the Properties dialog. The Properties dialog displays the following information about the archive: Name The name of the archive. Location The position of the archive in the file system. Modified on The date and time at which the archive was last modified. Archive size The size of the archive contents when compressed. Content size The size of the archive contents when uncompressed. This information is also available in the statusbar. Compression ratio The compression ratio is a value used to describe the reduction in size of the data. For example a compression ratio of 5 means that the compressed archive is 1/5th the size of the original data. Number of files The number of files in the archive.

Archive Manager displays the archive contents in the main window as a file list with the following columns: Name The name of a file or folder in the archive. Size The size of the file when the file is extracted from the archive. For a folder, the Size field is blank. For information on how to display the size of the compressed file, see . Type The type of the file. For a folder, the value in the Type field is Folder. Date modified The date on which the file was last modified. For a folder, the Date modified field is blank. Location The path to the file within the archive. This column is visible only when the window is in file view, when in folder view the location of the files is displayed in the Location text box of the folderbar. For more information about view types see . If another program has modified the archive since Archive Manager opened the archive, choose ViewReload to reload the archive contents from disk. For information on how to customize the way that Archive Manager displays the archive contents, see . For more advanced tasks, use an application installed on your system. For more information, see .

To view a file in an archive follow the steps described in . If you save the opened file, click Cancel when Archive Manager asks confirmation to update the file in the archive.

Sometimes an archive can be damaged for some reason, to check whether an archive is damaged, choose ArchiveTest Integrity: If the archive contains no errors, Archive Manager opens the Test Result dialog to list each file in the archive, and indicates that each file has status OK. If the archive contains some error, Archive Manager opens the Test Result dialog displaying the part of the archive contains the error. A damaged archive can be impossible to extract, this can bring to a loss of data. For this reason you should test the archive integrity before deleting the original files. If the archive contains encrypted files, Archive Manager asks the password of the archive before performing the test. Not all the archive types support the integrity testing, the following is the list of archive types that can be tested for integrity: 7-Zip, RAR, ZIP, ACE, ARJ and Zoo. To test the integrity of an archive that doesn't support the integrity testing, extract all the files from the archive and check that the operation is completed successfully.

You can customize the way that Archive Manager displays the archive contents, as follows: Switch between folder view and file view. For more information, see . Specify the order in which to display files in the list. For more information, see . Display additional details about the contents of the archive. For more information, see . Archive Manager updates the display immediately, when you make any of the above customizations.

If the archive contains folders, you can show the archive contents in either or .

Archive Manager displays the archive contents in folder view by default. To explicitly select folder view, choose ViewView as a Folder. In folder view, Archive Manager shows folders in the same way as a file manager shows folders. That is, Archive Manager indicates folders in the display area with a folder icon and the folder name. To view the contents of a folder, double-click on the folder name. The folderbar, which Archive Manager displays only in folder view, contains the components described in the following table. Component Description Shows icon to navigate backwards in location history list. Click on this button to navigate backwards in the location history list. Shows icon to navigate forwards in location history list. Click on this button to navigate forwards in the location history list. Shows icon to navigate up one level in folder tree. Click on this button to navigate up one level in the folder tree. Shows icon to open the top-level folder in the archive. Click on this button to open the top-level folder in the archive. Location This field shows the full pathname, within the archive, of the current folder. To change to a different level in the folder tree, type the new location in the Location text box then press Return. Archive Manager displays the contents of the new location.

To select file view, choose ViewView All Files. In file view, Archive Manager displays all files in the archive, including files from subfolders, in a single list.

You can sort the file list by name, size, type, modification date, or location. To specify a sort order, click on the heading of the corresponding column. To reverse the sort order, click on the column heading again. For example, to sort the file list by modification date, click on the Date modified heading. Archive Manager rearranges the file list to display the files by modification date, starting with the earliest. To display the latest files first, click on the Date modified heading again. Archive Manager always performs a secondary sort based on the file name. In the above example, Archive Manager sorts by name any files that have the same modification date.

To open the Last Output dialog, choose ViewLast Output: If you tested the archive in the current Archive Manager session, the Last Output dialog displays the results of the last test. If you did not test the archive in the current Archive Manager session, the Last Output dialog displays a list of all files in the archive, but does not indicate any status for the files. Instead, the Last Output dialog provides the compressed size of each file and the percentage of compression, and the date and time at which the file was last modified.

You can use the file manager to add files to an archive, or to extract files from an archive.

You can use the file manager to add files to an archive, in the following ways: Drag the files into a Archive Manager window from a file manager window. Use the file manager popup menu to add the files to the archive. To use the file manager popup menu to add files to an archive, perform the following steps: Right-click on the files or folders in a file manager window. Choose Create Archive from the file manager popup menu to display the Archive Manager Create Archive dialog. Enter the archive name, without the file extension, in the Archive text box. Choose the archive type from the drop-down list. Choose the location where to save the archive file, from the Location drop-down list. If the location is not present in the list choose Other... to select it with the Location dialog. Select the required create options clicking on Other Options. For more information about the create options, see . Click Create to add the selected files to the root folder of the specified archive. To select any of the advanced add options, you must invoke Archive Manager as described in .

You can use the file manager to extract files from an archive, in the following ways: Drag the files from a Archive Manager window into a file manager window. Use the file manager popup menu to extract the files from the archive. To use the file manager popup menu to extract files from an archive, perform the following steps: Right-click on the archive in a file manager window. Choose Extract Here to extract all of the archive contents into the directory where the archive is located. If the archive is encrypted, Archive Manager will ask to enter the password before extracting the files.

When creating a new archive, or when converting an existing archive to another format, click on Other Options to specify the following advanced options: Password Type the password that will be used to encrypt the archive. If no password is specified the archive will not be encrypted. Not all archive types support encryption. For more information about file encryption, see . Encrypt the file list too If this option is selected, the password will be requested even to view the list of files contained in the archive, otherwise it will be requested only to extract the files from the archive. This option is available only if a password is specified. Split in volumes Select this option to split the archive in more files of the specified dimension. Only 7-Zip and RAR archives support this feature.

The Add Files and Add a Folder dialogs provide the following option: Add only if newer Select this option to add the specified file to the archive only if the archive does not contain the specified file, or if the archive contains an older version of the specified file. Archive Manager uses the modification date to determine which file is the most recent. If the version of the file in the archive is the most recent, Archive Manager does not add the specified file to the archive. If you do not select this option, Archive Manager adds the file to the archive and overwrites the previous archive contents. If you use Archive Manager to create backups, the Add only if newer option is very useful. For example, the archive backup.tar.gz contains a week-old backup of your home folder. To update the archive to contain a current backup of your home folder, perform the following steps: Open the backup.tar.gz archive in Archive Manager. Choose EditAdd to display the Add a Folder dialog. Select your home folder. Select the Add only if newer option. Click Add. Archive Manager automatically adds to the archive all files that you created during the last week, and updates all files that you modified during the last week. However, Archive Manager does not remove from the archive the files that you deleted during the last week. The archive update operation is much faster than doing a full backup of your home folder.

The following options are available in the Add a Folder dialog and allow to automatically select and add all files that satisfy certain criteria: Include files Type a filename pattern in this text box to include files with names that match the specified pattern. See for more information about filename patterns. Exclude files Type a filename pattern in this text box to exclude files with names that match the specified pattern. See for more information about filename patterns. Exclude folders Type a filename pattern in this text box to exclude folders with names that match the specified pattern. See for more information about filename patterns. Include subfolders Select this option to add all files that match the specified pattern, from the current folder and from subfolders. The filename, not the subfolder name, must match the specified pattern. If you do not select this option, Archive Manager adds the matching files from the current folder only. Exclude folders that are symbolic links Select this option to omit files from folders that are symbolic links. Symbolic links are pointers or shortcuts to other folders. If you do not select this option, Archive Manager adds the matching files from folders that are symbolic links. Save Options Click on this button to save the current selection of advanced add options to a file. The Save Options dialog is displayed. Enter a descriptive filename in the Options Name text box, then click Save. Load Options Click on this button to load or delete a previously saved selection of advanced add options. The Load Options dialog is displayed. To load a set of options, select the options file in the list box, then click Apply. To delete a set of options, select the options file in the list box, then click Remove. Click Close to close the Load Options dialog. Reset Options Click on this button to reset the current selection of advanced add options to the default values.

The Extract dialog provides the following options, which are saved when you quit Archive Manager: Extract Select the files to be extracted: All files Extract all files from the archive. Selected files Extract the selected files from the archive. Files Extract from the archive all files that match the specified pattern. See for more information about filename patterns. Actions Select the following extract options: Re-create folders Select this option to reconstruct the folder structure when extracting the specified files. For example, you specify /tmp in the Filename text box and choose to extract all files. The archive contains a subfolder called doc. If you select the Re-create folders option, Archive Manager extracts the contents of the subfolder to /tmp/doc. If you do not select the Re-create folders option, Archive Manager does not create any subfolders. Instead, Archive Manager extracts all files from the archive, including files from subfolders, to /tmp. Overwrite existing files Select this option to overwrite any files in the destination folder that have the same name as the specified files. If you do not select this option, Archive Manager does not extract the specified file if an existing file with the same name already exists in the destination folder. Do not extract older files This option is only effective while the Overwrite existing files option is selected. Select the Do not extract older files option to extract the specified file only if the destination folder does not contain the specified file, or if the destination folder contains an older version of the specified file. Archive Manager uses the modification date to determine which file is the most recent. If the version of the file in the archive is older, Archive Manager does not extract the specified file to the destination folder. If you do not select the Do not extract older files option while the Overwrite existing files option is selected, Archive Manager extracts the specified file from the archive and overwrites the previous contents of the destination folder.