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.
I legit miss that feature when I’m using other PCs
It’s such a great feature I use it all the time!
You explained it, so it’s high quality. Very cool
I think this is the default behavior in GNOME as well
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.
Doesn’t
Ctrl+Zundo 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)
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!
Or you make one because you’ve been burned so many times, and now your files are two levels deep.
Ugh I hate that the most
