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I was wondering if there was an easy way to add an 'Extract to...' option in the context menu for the Archive Manager in Nautilus?



'Extract here' is fine a lot of the time but I'm often working with a lot of archives whose content is just 'loose' within the archive and I want it extracted in to a sub-folder for better organisation. Having to manually create the folder first becomes really tedious when dealing with lots of archives.



I was also hoping that it would be possible for this (or another) function to automatically create a folder with the same name as the archive and extract the contents there. Again for ease of management and so I don't have to keep typing out long complicated archive names by hand.



Thanks for any help you can offer.


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Having to manually create the folder first becomes really tedious when dealing with lots of archives.




This is not required. Try creating a zip file with 2 files without a folder. When you extract it with "Extract here" it will create the folder automatically.



If the folder exists, it will create a new folder, MyArchiveFilename (2).



If there's only one file in the archive, only then it is extracted in the current directory, without creating a subfolder.


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