file-roller doesn't provide deletion of folders in some type of archives

Bug #341357 reported by Oleg Koptev
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
file-roller (Ubuntu)
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Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: file-roller

Technical info:
* file-roller v.2.24.1
* Ubuntu 8.10 (latest updates)

Bug info:

1) make e.g. 2 directories - test1 & test2, put some files & folders in each.
2) select both and make ZIP archive by file-roller.
3) well, now open it in file-roller and try to delete folder test1 for example - select it and hit DEL (or by context menu, doesn't matter). make sure, that in dialog box you check "selected"
4) all files and folders within that unhappy directory will be deleted with no remorse. BUT NOT their parent directory "test1". That is.
5) Instead of that - on step 3 if I select 'all' in context menu - all two folders test1 and test2 will be deleted!

That affect only at ZIP archives (I tried ZIP, RAR, TAR.BZ2, TAR.7Z, TAR)

P.S. Second note - in pure 7z archive function of removal seems to be not implemented at all - when I try to do that error happens:

** 7-Zip 4.58 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Igor Pavlov 2008-05-05
** p7zip Version 4.58 (locale=ru_RU.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)
**
** Updating archive /home/boobaloo/test2/test2.7z
** System error:
** E_NOTIMPL

But, what interest - when I use .tar.7z - I unpack archive twice, then delete what I want in TAR and then succesfully update 7Z. that little bit strange.

Cheerz!

Revision history for this message
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for the report, that works fine in Jaunty, please re open if you encounter the same issue with Jaunty and have another test case to test with, thanks in advance.

Changed in file-roller (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Released
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X (axcoro) wrote :

I'm using Mint 7 (9.04) and right now, I just delete a folder (at least want to..) in a .cbz (a "comic book" format, it's yust a zip renamed)
I press "del" over the folder and select ok whitout see that the option to delete only selected files was unavailable.
The result is an empty file, this issue no occurs if the extension is zip instead cbz..

X (axcoro)
Changed in file-roller (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

Changed in file-roller (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
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Daniel Cordero (supercordero-1) wrote :

Hi, ive seen this issue in lucid having file roller 2.30.1.1 and p7zip-full look at bug #626151

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