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Monday, April 17, 2006

thunar-archive-plugin 0.1.2

I just released the second version of the thunar-archive-plugin. It includes a bunch of new translations, and fixes the problem that the folder was not properly reloaded after creating or extracting an archive. It requires Thunar 0.2.2alpha2 or above and File Roller.

Download:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=910&release_id=9778

Release notes:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=9778

Website (with screenshots):
http://xfce.org/~benny/projects/thunar-archive-plugin/index.html

posted by Benedikt Meurer at 13:38

10 Comments:

  • Just a question from a new Xfce fan. Shouldn't thunar or its plugins just make use of gtk libraries?, file-roller use gnome libraries.

    By Anonymous Herr Spock, at 17/4/06 16:39  

  • The archive plugin will also support Xarchiver in the future (once Xarchiver supports the required functionality). In the meantime file-roller is the best option.

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 17/4/06 16:42  

  • Is this planned to support Xarchive with plugin too?

    By Anonymous moloh, at 18/4/06 01:49  

  • I'd like to support Xarchive as well, yes, but unfortunately xarchive lacks command line parameters required for "Extract here" and "Extract to".

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 18/4/06 01:50  

  • Ok.
    I will send You info when this would be implemented there...

    By Anonymous moloh, at 19/4/06 02:16  

  • I couldn't help but notice the bulk renamer. Is this the application i need to remove thousands of corrupted filenames (invalid encoding) from a filesystem?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 26/4/06 08:53  

  • what I mean is, does the bulk renamer support unicode and other encodings?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 26/4/06 08:55  

  • The bulk renamer is just a framework. The functionality is provided by modules. The currently available modules don't provide this functionality, but you could of course write a module that does this.

    By Blogger Benedikt Meurer, at 26/4/06 17:16  

  • I figured out how to rename all the files on a filesystem (using the bulk renamer) when there are invalid encodings throughout an entire drive. These are the typical "invalid encodings" that happen when passing a filesystem from NTFS to fat32 to ext3, etc, and prevent files from being comfortably moved/copied thereafter.

    All you have to do is search for * in nautilus (to find all of the files on the drive) organize by filetype, select all but the directories, and drag them into the window of the bulk renamer. It works great. You have to do directories manually, since subdirectories or files will not be found by the bulk renamer once the directory name has changed, with an error messgae like: Failed to rename "xyz!!" to "xyz". You can either choose to skip this file and continue to rename the remaining files, or revert the previously renamed files to their previous names, or cancel the operation without reverting previous changes.

    the modules must more or less support this functionality, as UTF8 names are still read (albeit misread) by ascii-limited programs.

    It's just that the bulk renamer doesn't allow you to choose directories recursively (which would be a huge time saver when it's an entire drive with thousands of subdirectories) As for the above error message, is that a module?

    By Anonymous brallan, at 4/5/06 05:30  

  • I figured out how to rename all the files on a filesystem (using the bulk renamer) when there are invalid encodings throughout an entire drive. These are the typical "invalid encodings" that happen when passing a filesystem from NTFS to fat32 to ext3, etc, and prevent files from being comfortably moved/copied thereafter.

    All you have to do is search for * in nautilus (to find all of the files on the drive) organize by filetype, select all but the directories, and drag them into the window of the bulk renamer. It works great. You have to do directories manually, since subdirectories or files will not be found by the bulk renamer once the directory name has changed, with an error messgae like: Failed to rename "xyz!!" to "xyz". You can either choose to skip this file and continue to rename the remaining files, or revert the previously renamed files to their previous names, or cancel the operation without reverting previous changes.

    the modules must more or less support this functionality, as UTF8 names are still read (albeit misread) by ascii-limited programs.

    It's just that the bulk renamer doesn't allow you to choose directories recursively (which would be a huge time saver when it's an entire drive with thousands of subdirectories) As for the above error message, is that a module?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4/5/06 05:30  

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