I couldn't extract that file using file-roller 2.24.1-0ubuntu2 (which is affected by bug #294215 ) but I was able to extract it with file-roller 2.25.2-0ubuntu1. file-roller extracted a file with name "mydirectory\myfile" and it didn't create the directory "mydirectory" .
Which version of file-roller are you using? I think that the example you have provided is a duplicate of bug #294215 . In fact the archive you have posted contains a file which filename is "mydirectory\myfile". So the filename contains a "\" (backslash) character. As you can read here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559481 (this is the upstream report for #294215) special characters in filenames are "[]*?!^-\" and backslash is included. At the same time I suppose that the backslash character is not a directory separator when used in the filename. It must be a character which belongs to the name of a file and it doesn't represent a directory, although I don't know the zip file format, so I'm not sure. I understand that your bug report pointed out that the character '\' could be used to represent a sub-directory in an archive (e.g. a .zip file) instead of using the character '/'. We'd be grateful if you would then provide an archive in which the "\" character in the name of a file is used to represent that the file is placed inside a directory, so that we can reproduce this bug. ** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Cannot extract zip archive when filenames contain a \ character https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320784 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
