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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.

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[–] jag@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's such a great feature I use it all the time!

[–] devSJR@fosstodon.org 1 points 10 months ago

@jag @russjr08
That is true, it's really a great feature.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 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.

[–] Kyrinar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or you make one because you've been burned so many times, and now your files are two levels deep.

[–] bizzle@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ugh I hate that the most