Viewing Archives
Archive Manager enables you to view several aspects of an archive.
6.1. To View the Properties of an Archive
To view the properties of an archive, choose Properties dialog. The Properties dialog displays the following information about the archive:
to display the- Nom
The name of the archive.
- Emplaçament
The position of the archive in the file system.
- Modificat lo
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.
- Nombre de fichièrs
The number of files in the archive.
6.2. To View the Contents of an Archive
Archive Manager displays the archive contents in the main window as a file list with the following columns:
- Nom
The name of a file or folder in the archive.
- Talha
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 Section 7.3 ― To Display Additional Details.
- Tipe
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.
- Emplaçament
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 Section 7.1.1 ― Folder View.
If another program has modified the archive since Archive Manager opened the archive, choose to reload the archive contents from disk.
For information on how to customize the way that Archive Manager displays the archive contents, see Section 7 ― Customizing the Archive Display.
For more advanced tasks, use an application installed on your system. For more information, see Section 6.3 ― To View a File in an Archive.
6.3. To View a File in an Archive
To view a file in an archive follow the steps described in Section 5.6 ― To Modify a File in an Archive. If you save the opened file, click Cancel when Archive Manager asks confirmation to update the file in the archive.
6.4. To Test the Integrity of an Archive
Sometimes an archive can be damaged for some reason, to check whether an archive is damaged, choose
:- 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.