<releaseinfo> This manual describes version 2.26.0 of Archive Manager.
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<para>To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the <application>Archive Manager</application> application or this manual, follow the directions in the
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<para>You can use the <application>Archive Manager</application> application to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. An archive is a file that acts as a container for other files. An archive can contain many files, folders, and subfolders, usually in compressed form.
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<application>Archive Manager</application> provides only a graphical interface, and relies on command-line utilities such as <command>tar</command>, <command>gzip</command>, and <command>bzip2</command> for archive operations.
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If you have the appropriate command-line tools installed on your system, <application>Archive Manager</application> supports the archive formats listed in the following table.</para>
<para>The most common archive format on UNIX and Linux systems is the tar archive compressed with <command>gzip</command> or <command>bzip2</command>. </para>
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<para>A compressed non-archive file is a file that is created when you use <command>bzip2</command>, <command>gzip</command>, <command>lzop</command>, <command>compress</command> or <command>rzip</command> to compress a non-archive file. For example, <filename>file.txt.gz</filename> is created when you use <command>gzip</command> to compress <filename>file.txt</filename>.</para>
<para>You can use <application>Archive Manager</application> to create, open and extract a compressed non-archive file.</para>
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<para>This section provides information on how to start <application>Archive Manager</application>, and describes the <application>Archive Manager</application> user interface.
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<para>The toolbar contains a subset of the commands that you can access from the menubar. <application>Archive Manager</application> displays the toolbar by default. To hide the toolbar, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Toolbar</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. To show the toolbar, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Toolbar</guimenuitem></menuchoice> again. </para>
<para>The folderbar enables you to navigate among folders within an archive. <application>Archive Manager</application> displays the folderbar only in folder view. See <xref linkend="file-roller-view-type-folder"/> for more information.</para>
<para>The statusbar displays information about current <application>Archive Manager</application> activity and contextual information about the archive contents. <application>Archive Manager</application> displays the statusbar by default. To hide the statusbar, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Statusbar</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. To show the statusbar, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Statusbar</guimenuitem></menuchoice> again. </para>
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</variablelist>
<para>When you right-click in the <application>Archive Manager</application> window, the application displays a popup menu. The popup menu contains the most common contextual archive commands. </para>
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<title>Browsing the Filesystem</title>
<para>Several <application>Archive Manager</application> dialogs (<guilabel>New</guilabel>, <guilabel>Open</guilabel>, <guilabel>Extract</guilabel>,...) enable you
to browse files and folders on your computer. Refer to the <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:user-guide?filechooser-open">Desktop User Guide</ulink> to learn more about using the
file browsing dialogs.</para>
<para>You can also refer to the <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:user-guide?nautilus-bookmarks">Bookmarks
section</ulink> of the Desktop User Guide to learn how you can use the <guilabel>Places</guilabel> pane
to access your favorite locations.</para>
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<para>
When you use <application>Archive Manager</application> to work with an archive, all changes are saved to disk immediately. For example, if you delete a file from an archive, <application>Archive Manager</application> deletes the file as soon as you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>. This behavior is different to that of most applications, which save the changes to disk only when you quit the application or select <guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem> in the menu.</para>
In <application>Archive Manager</application>, you can perform the same action in several ways. For example, you can open an archive in the following ways:
<entry><para>Drag an archive into the <application>Archive Manager</application> window from another application such as a file manager.</para></entry>
<para><application>Archive Manager</application> enables you to add, extract, or delete several files at once. To apply an action to all files that match a certain pattern, enter the pattern in the text box. The pattern can include standard wildcard symbols such as <keycap>*</keycap> to match any string, and <keycap>?</keycap> to match any single symbol. You can enter several patterns separated by semicolons. <application>Archive Manager</application> applies the action to all files that match at least one of the patterns. The examples in the following table show how to use filename patterns to select files.
<entry align="left"><para>All files with extension <filename>gz</filename> that have the name "file" followed by any single character, e.g. <filename>file2.gz</filename>, <filename>filex.gz</filename>.</para></entry>
<para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Archive</guimenu><guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to display the <guilabel>Open</guilabel> dialog. Alternatively press <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>O</keycap></keycombo>, or click <guibutton>Open</guibutton> in the toolbar.</para>
<para>The number files and folders (objects) in the current location, and their size when uncompressed, in the statusbar</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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To open another archive, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Archive</guimenu><guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem></menuchoice> again. <application>Archive Manager</application> opens each archive in a new window. You can't open another archive in the same window.
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If you try to open an archive that was created in a format that <application>Archive Manager</application> does not recognize, the application displays an error message. See <xref linkend="file-roller-intro"/> for a list of supported formats.
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To select all files in an archive, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Select All</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or press <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>A</keycap></keycombo>. </para>
<para>To deselect all files in an archive, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Deselect All</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or press <keycombo><keycap>Shift</keycap><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>A</keycap></keycombo>.
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Select the files that you want to extract. To select more files, press-and-hold <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> and click on the files you want to select.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>
Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Archive</guimenu><guimenuitem>Extract</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to display the <guilabel>Extract</guilabel> dialog. Alternatively click <guibutton>Extract</guibutton> in the toolbar.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>
Select the folder where <application>Archive Manager</application> extracts the files.</para>
If all of the files in the archive are protected by a password, and you have not specified it, <application>Archive Manager</application> asks you to enter the password.
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If some but not all of the files in the archive are protected by a password, and you have not specified the password, <application>Archive Manager</application> does not ask for a password. However, <application>Archive Manager</application> extracts only the unprotected files.
<para><application>Archive Manager</application> also provides ways of extracting files from an archive in a file manager window, without opening a <application>Archive Manager</application> window. See <xref linkend="file-roller-fmgr"/> for more information.</para>
The Extract operation does not change the contents of the archive. For information on how to delete files from an archive, see <xref linkend="file-roller-delete-files"/>.
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<para>To close the current archive and the current <application>Archive Manager</application> window, choose <menuchoice> <guimenu>Archive</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Close</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>, or press <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>W</keycap></keycombo>.
</para>
<note>
<para>There is no way to close the current archive but not the <application>Archive Manager</application> window.
<para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Archive</guimenu><guimenuitem>New</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to display the <guilabel>New</guilabel> dialog. Alternatively press <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>N</keycap></keycombo>, or click <guibutton>New</guibutton> in the toolbar.
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<para>Specify the folder where <application>Archive Manager</application> places the new archive clicking on the entry in the <guilabel>Save in folder</guilabel> drop-down list. If the folder is not present in list, click on <guilabel>Browse for other folders</guilabel>, and select the folder. Alternatively, enter the path in the <guilabel>Name</guilabel> text box.
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</listitem>
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<para>Enter the name of the new archive, including the file extension, in the <guilabel>Name</guilabel> text box. Alternatively you can specify the archive name without extension, and then select the archive type from the <guilabel>Archive type</guilabel> drop-down menu, this way the extension will be added automatically.
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</listitem>
<listitem><para>
Select the required create options clicking on <guilabel>Other Options</guilabel>. For more information about the create options, see <xref linkend="file-roller-create-options"/>.</para>
</listitem>
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<para>Click <guibutton>New</guibutton>. <application>Archive Manager</application> creates an empty archive, but does not yet write the archive to disk.
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<para>Add files to the new archive as described in <xref linkend="file-roller-add-files"/>.
<note>
<para><application>Archive Manager</application> writes a new archive to disk only when the archive contains at least one file. If you create a new archive and quit <application>Archive Manager</application> before you add any files to the archive, <application>Archive Manager</application> deletes the archive.
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<para>Decide where in the archive you want to add the files, then open that location in the archive.</para>
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<para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add Files</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to display the <guilabel>Add Files</guilabel> dialog, or click <guibutton>Add Files</guibutton> in the toolbar.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Select the files that you want to add. To select more files press-and-hold <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> and click the files.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>. <application>Archive Manager</application> adds the files to the current folder in the archive.
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</listitem>
</orderedlist></para>
<para>You cannot add folders to the archive with the <guilabel>Add Files</guilabel> dialog. To add a folder see <xref linkend="file-roller-add-folder"/>.</para>
<para>The <guilabel>Add Files</guilabel> dialog provides the <guilabel>Add only if newer</guilabel> option, see <xref linkend="file-roller-add-options"/> for more information on this option.</para>
<para>You can also add files to an archive in a file manager window, without opening an <application>Archive Manager</application> window. See <xref linkend="file-roller-fmgr"/> for more information.</para>
<para>The Add operation adds a <emphasis>copy</emphasis> of the specified files or folders to the archive. <application>Archive Manager</application> does not remove the original files, which remain unchanged in the file system. The copies that are added to the archive have the same permissions and modification date as the original files.
To add a folder to an archive, perform the following steps:
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Decide where in the archive you want to add the files, then open that location in the archive.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add a Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to display the <guilabel>Add a Folder</guilabel> dialog.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Select the folder that you want to add.</para>
</listitem>
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<para>Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>. <application>Archive Manager</application> adds the folder to the current folder in the archive.
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
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<para>The <guilabel>Add a Folder</guilabel> dialog provides several advanced options. See <xref linkend="file-roller-add-options"/> for more information.</para>
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<para>Enter the new archive name in the <guilabel>Name</guilabel> text box.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Select the new format from the <guilabel>Archive type</guilabel> drop-down list. Alternatively, enter the filename extension in the <guilabel>Name</guilabel> text box, and select <guilabel>Automatic</guilabel> from the <guilabel>Archive type</guilabel> drop-down list.
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</listitem>
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<para>Select the required create options clicking on <guilabel>Other Options</guilabel>. For more information about the create options, see <xref linkend="file-roller-create-options"/>.
If all of the files in the archive are protected by a password, and you have not specified it, <application>Archive Manager</application> asks you to enter the password.
</para>
<para>
If some but not all of the files in the archive are protected by a password, and you have not specified the password, <application>Archive Manager</application> does not ask for a password. However, <application>Archive Manager</application> copies only the unprotected files to the new archive.
<para><application>Archive Manager</application> uses the password to encrypt the files that you add to the current archive, and to decrypt the files that you extract from the current archive. <application>Archive Manager</application> deletes the password when you close the archive.
<para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Rename</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, or press <keycombo><keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo>, to display the <guilabel>Rename</guilabel> dialog.</para>
<para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or press <keycap>Delete</keycap> to display the <guilabel>Delete</guilabel> dialog.</para>
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<sect2 id="file-roller-modify-archive-file">
<title>To Modify a File in an Archive</title>
<para>
To modify a file in an archive perform the following steps:
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Double-click the file that you want to open. Alternatively right-click the file and choose <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Edit the file opened in step 1, and then save your changes.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><application>Archive Manager</application> shows a confirmation dialog, asking confirmation to update the file in the archive with the changes you made.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Click on <guilabel>Update</guilabel>.</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
<para><application>Archive Manager</application> uses the system-defined associations between file types and programs to determine the appropriate application to launch for a specific file. These assocations can be displayed and modified in the <guilabel>Open With</guilabel> tab of the file properties dialog. If <application>Archive Manager</application> cannot determine the appropriate application, <application>Archive Manager</application> displays the <guilabel>Open Files</guilabel> dialog to let you choose an application, as described in below.
<para><application>Archive Manager</application> displays the <guilabel>Open Files</guilabel> dialog, which lists all of the applications that can open files of the specified type. To select one of the applications, double-click the application name or click on the application name and then click <guibutton>Open</guibutton>. Alternatively, enter the application name in the <guilabel>Application</guilabel> text box and then click <guibutton>Open</guibutton> to launch the application of your choice.</para>
<para>Once the application starts follow the procedure from step 2 as described in <xref linkend="file-roller-modify-archive-file"/>.</para>
<listitem><para>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.
<listitem><para>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 <guilabel>Location</guilabel> text box of the folderbar. For more information about view types see <xref linkend="file-roller-view-type-folder"/>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
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<para>If another program has modified the archive since <application>Archive Manager</application> opened the archive, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Reload</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to reload the archive contents from disk.
</para>
<para>For information on how to customize the way that <application>Archive Manager</application> displays the archive contents, see <xref linkend="file-roller-archive-custom"/>.
To view a file in an archive follow the steps described in <xref linkend="file-roller-modify-archive-file"/>. If you save the opened file, click <guilabel>Cancel</guilabel> when <application>Archive Manager</application> asks confirmation to update the file in the archive.
</para>
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<sect2 id="file-roller-test-archive">
<title>To Test the Integrity of an Archive</title>
<para>Sometimes an archive can be damaged for some reason, to check whether an archive is damaged, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Archive</guimenu><guimenuitem>Test Integrity</guimenuitem></menuchoice>:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If the archive contains no errors, <application>Archive Manager</application> opens the <guilabel>Test Result</guilabel> dialog to list each file in the archive, and indicates that each file has status <literal>OK</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If the archive contains some error, <application>Archive Manager</application> opens the <guilabel>Test Result</guilabel> dialog displaying the part of the archive contains the error.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>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.
</para>
<para>If the archive contains encrypted files, <application>Archive Manager</application> asks the password of the archive before performing the test.
</para>
<note>
<para>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.
</para>
</note>
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<para>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.
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</tip>
</sect2>
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<!-- ======= Customizing the Archive Display ============= -->
<para><application>Archive Manager</application> displays the archive contents in folder view by default. To explicitly select folder view, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>View as a Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
</para>
<para>In folder view, <application>Archive Manager</application> shows folders in the same way as a file manager shows folders. That is, <application>Archive Manager</application> indicates folders in the display area with a folder icon and the folder name. To view the contents of a folder, double-click on the folder name.
</para>
<para>The folderbar, which <application>Archive Manager</application> displays only in folder view, contains the components described in the following table.
<para>To change to a different level in the folder tree, type the new location in the <guilabel>Location</guilabel> text box then press <keycap>Return</keycap>. <application>Archive Manager</application> displays the contents of the new location.
<para>To specify a sort order, click on the heading of the corresponding column. </para>
<para>To reverse the sort order, click on the column heading again.
</para>
<para>For example, to sort the file list by modification date, click on the <guilabel>Date modified</guilabel> heading. <application>Archive Manager</application> rearranges the file list to display the files by modification date, starting with the earliest. To display the latest files first, click on the <guilabel>Date modified</guilabel> heading again.
</para>
<para><application>Archive Manager</application> always performs a secondary sort based on the file name. In the above example, <application>Archive Manager</application> sorts by name any files that have the same modification date.
<para>If you tested the archive in the current <application>Archive Manager</application> session, the <guilabel>Last Output</guilabel> dialog displays the results of the last test.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If you did not test the archive in the current <application>Archive Manager</application> session, the <guilabel>Last Output</guilabel> dialog displays a list of all files in the archive, but does not indicate any status for the files. Instead, the <guilabel>Last Output</guilabel> dialog provides the compressed size of each file and the percentage of compression, and the date and time at which the file was last modified.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<!-- ====== Using the File Manager Popup Menu to Manipulate an Archive ===== -->
<listitem><para>Choose <guimenuitem>Create Archive</guimenuitem> from the file manager popup menu to display the <application>Archive Manager</application> <guilabel>Create Archive</guilabel> dialog. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Enter the archive name, without the file extension, in the <guilabel>Archive</guilabel> text box. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Choose the archive type from the drop-down list. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Choose the location where to save the archive file, from the <guilabel>Location</guilabel> drop-down list. If the location is not present in the list choose <guilabel>Other...</guilabel> to select it with the <guilabel>Location</guilabel> dialog.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>
Select the required create options clicking on <guilabel>Other Options</guilabel>. For more information about the create options, see <xref linkend="file-roller-create-options"/>.</para>
<note><para>To select any of the advanced add options, you must invoke <application>Archive Manager</application> as described in <xref linkend="file-roller-to-start"/>.</para></note>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</sect2>
<!-- ======= Extracting files Using File Manager Menu ============= -->
<note><para>If the archive is encrypted, <application>Archive Manager</application> will ask to enter the password before extracting the files.</para></note>
<para>When creating a new archive, or when converting an existing archive to another format, click on <guilabel>Other Options</guilabel> to specify the following advanced options:
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<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>–ü–∞—Ä–æ–ª–∞</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Type the password that will be used to encrypt the archive. If no password is specified the archive will not be encrypted.</para>
<note>
<para>Not all archive types support encryption. For more information about file encryption, see <xref linkend="file-roller-encrypt-files"/>.</para>
</note>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Encrypt the file list too</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>If this option is selected, the password will be requested even to view the list of files contained in the archive, otherwise it will be requested only to extract the files from the archive. This option is available only if a password is specified.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Split in volumes</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Select this option to split the archive in more files of the specified dimension.</para>
<note>
<para>Only 7-Zip and RAR archives support this feature.</para>
<para>Select this option to add the specified file to the archive only if the archive does not contain the specified file, or if the archive contains an older version of the specified file. <application>Archive Manager</application> uses the modification date to determine which file is the most recent. If the version of the file in the archive is the most recent, <application>Archive Manager</application> does not add the specified file to the archive.
</para>
<para>If you do not select this option, <application>Archive Manager</application> adds the file to the archive and overwrites the previous archive contents.
</para>
<tip>
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<para>If you use <application>Archive Manager</application> to create backups, the <guilabel>Add only if newer</guilabel> option is very useful. For example, the archive <filename>backup.tar.gz</filename> contains a week-old backup of your home folder. To update the archive to contain a current backup of your home folder, perform the following steps:
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Open the <filename>backup.tar.gz</filename> archive in <application>Archive Manager</application>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to display the <guilabel>Add a Folder</guilabel> dialog.</para>
<para><application>Archive Manager</application> automatically adds to the archive all files that you created during the last week, and updates all files that you modified during the last week. However, <application>Archive Manager</application> does not remove from the archive the files that you deleted during the last week. The archive update operation is much faster than doing a full backup of your home folder.
</para>
</tip>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<sect2 id="file-roller-add-folder-options">
<title>Add to Folder Options</title>
<para>The following options are available in the <guilabel>Add a Folder</guilabel> dialog and allow to automatically select and add all files that satisfy certain criteria:
<para>Type a filename pattern in this text box to exclude folders with names that match the specified pattern. See <xref linkend="file-roller-pattern"/> for more information about filename patterns.
If you select the <guilabel>Re-create folders</guilabel> option, <application>Archive Manager</application> extracts the contents of the subfolder to <filename>/tmp/doc</filename>.
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If you do not select the <guilabel>Re-create folders</guilabel> option, <application>Archive Manager</application> does not create any subfolders. Instead, <application>Archive Manager</application> extracts all files from the archive, including files from subfolders, to <filename>/tmp</filename>.
If you do not select this option, <application>Archive Manager</application> does not extract the specified file if an existing file with the same name already exists in the destination folder.</para>
Select the <guilabel>Do not extract older files</guilabel> option to extract the specified file only if the destination folder does not contain the specified file, or if the destination folder contains an older version of the specified file. <application>Archive Manager</application> uses the modification date to determine which file is the most recent. If the version of the file in the archive is older, <application>Archive Manager</application> does not extract the specified file to the destination folder.</para>
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If you do not select the <guilabel>Do not extract older files</guilabel> option while the <guilabel>Overwrite existing files</guilabel> option is selected, <application>Archive Manager</application> extracts the specified file from the archive and overwrites the previous contents of the destination folder.