GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 591818
file-roller "An error occurred while adding files to the archive."
Last modified: 2020-11-11 19:14:20 UTC
this report has been filed here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/413357 file-roller version is: 2.27.90 "I've tried to create an archive with the nautlius-context-menu "Compress..." The files and folders are on the desktop Mark the items o Press and hold the button [shift] o click on the items (1 folder, 1 file) o Release the button [shift] o Right-click at one of the marked items and click on "Compress..." o Filename is "test", archive-type is "tar.bz2", Location is "Desktop" o Click on the button [Create] /!\ Now the error message --- An error occurred while adding files to the archive" The file is created however the message is shown anyways. Thanks,
Affects 2.32.0 on Fedora 14 for me as well. I cannot right click a folder, select Compress.. and create a 7z archive.
Another issue regarding this one reported downstream, complaining about the fact that the user feedback provided is not very user-friendly. The message only says "An error occurred while adding files to the archive", but it does not mention why and which files do cause the issue. For more details see downstream bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/696546.
This bug should be confirmed, as there are at least two users having this on 2.32.0 and one on an older version, thus it is an issue.
I am also encountering this problem, although I am adding files to the archive by opening the application and from inside the application I clicked on the "Add Folder to archive" button. The archive runs up until close the end, then I get the error "An error occurred while adding files to the archive" I selected the tar.gz compression.
I would like to confirm this difficulty in File Roller 3.4.1 (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) and to comment that I finally tracked the problem down to a permissions bit on two of the directories (out of thousands being archived). It would have been VERY helpful if File Roller had displayed the exact error message(s). In my circumstance, I was creating an archive of a directory using EITHER right-click compress (via Nautilus) OR using file-roller via its "ordinary" GUI. In both cases it would create the archive, but produce the enigmatic "An error occurred adding files to the archive." Since the archive was created and it seemed to be about the right size, I was confused. I finally used "tar zcf" to create the archive and saw a couple of hundred files failed with "Cannot stat: Permission denied." The entire directory I was archiving was symlinked to another user's directory, HOWEVER the few failing files were in a couple of the directories that were missing the chmod g+x bit needed to access those directories from my user's account. SO to reproduce this bug, create an archive of a directory containing lots of subdirectories, but include at least one subdirectory having the wrong permissions for access by the current user.
This also affects Ubuntu 14.04
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