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Bug 562481 - File-Roller shouldn't get the archive type by the filename extension
File-Roller shouldn't get the archive type by the filename extension
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126130
Product: file-roller
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
file-roller-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-11-27 17:56 UTC by Ruben Grimm
Modified: 2011-12-22 06:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Ruben Grimm 2008-11-27 17:56:02 UTC 
Many archive files come with a wrong filename extensio, so when opening it with file-roller it won't open correctly. The user has to guess what extension could be the right one and is sometimes correct. If you are very unlucky the file is no archive at all. So I think it would be great, if file-roller would check wich archive type to use by perhaps the header of the file or something like that and not by the filename extension.

Other information:
I think in the version 2.22.x I didn't had this problem, but I'm not quite sure.
Comment 1 Robert Roth 2011-12-22 06:38:43 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 126130 ***