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swiftscythe

Member

Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 132

Can't create/edit ZIP files with file-roller

I have file-roller 3.2.2 installed and I am unable to create/edit zip files.

I can with ark or xarchiver.

The error I get is this one:

An error occurred while adding files to the archive.

Command Line Ouput

7-Zip [64] 9.20  Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov  2010-11-18
p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=en_GB.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,4 CPUs)
Scanning

Creating archive /home/adria/file.zip

Any ideas?
Thanks

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Can't create/edit ZIP files with file-roller

Do you have zip installed? It's an optional dependency - creates PKZIP-compatible .zip files.

swiftscythe

Member

Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 132

Re: Can't create/edit ZIP files with file-roller

Yes, I have it installed. I have plenty of packages which should make it work

$ pacman -Qsq zip
bzip2
gzip
lib32-bzip2
lib32-zlib
p7zip
perl
unzip
zip
zlib
zziplib

swiftscythe

Member

Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 132

Re: Can't create/edit ZIP files with file-roller

I managed to solve it, but don't know exactly how. I deleted dconf from .config, I can now create ZIP files...

Shutnik

Member

Registered: 2012-02-07

Posts: 2

Re: Can't create/edit ZIP files with file-roller

Alternate solution

$ dconf reset /org/gnome/file-roller/general/compression-level

or

# pacman -Rsn p7zip
# pacman -S zip

Last edited by Shutnik (2012-02-07 10:19:44)

leonardof

Member

Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 66

Re: Can't create/edit ZIP files with file-roller

Alternate solution

$ dconf reset /org/gnome/file-roller/general/compression-level

...

Thanks, man! That finally fixed it for me.

olegabrielz

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From: Norway

Registered: 2015-12-23

Posts: 255

Re: Can't create/edit ZIP files with file-roller

Hi there leonardof

I'm glad you've got your issue resolved. But please do not necrobump. This thread is over five years old.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

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x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Can't create/edit ZIP files with file-roller

Closing thread.