https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507019
Bug ID: 507019
Summary: Some zip files don't list all contents
Classification: Applications
Product: ark
Version First unspecified
Reported In:
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 183220
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Example archive that is displayed improperly in Ark
SUMMARY
The Romanian Ministry of Education, each year, publishes the test materials for
the national finals. However, for whatever reason, each year most archives are
saved in a weird state that is unable to be opened by Ark! This has been
happening for a long while now, so it isn't a regression.
My theory is that the directory is saved with an odd name and it makes Ark
think it's a normal file, breaking some other logic afterwards.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Go to https://subiecte.edu.ro/2025/bacalaureat/Subiecte_si_bareme/ (official
Romanian Ministry of Education website) and download any of the archives, for
example
https://subiecte.edu.ro/2025/bacalaureat/Subiecte_si_bareme/E_a_2025_ses_iunie.zip.
I have attached the file as well, for posterity, since they seem to take down
the websites after a few years.
2. Open the archive with Ark.
3. Observe the broken state.
OBSERVED RESULT
Only the parent directory (E_a_2025_ses_iunie) is shown, twice, for whatever
reason.
EXPECTED RESULT
I expected to see the directory, together with its file contents. Here's the
output of unzip -l for the archive, if it helps (I expected Ark to also
correctly show me all of these files):
$ unzip -l E_a_2025_ses_iunie.zip
Archive: E_a_2025_ses_iunie.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
0 06-10-2025 12:47 E_a_2025_ses_iunie
170743 06-10-2025 12:09
E_a_2025_ses_iunie/E_a_romana_pentru_minoritatea_maghiara_bar_07_tehnologic_2025.pdf
157501 06-10-2025 12:09
E_a_2025_ses_iunie/E_a_romana_pentru_minoritatea_maghiara_bar_07_teoretic_real_2025.pdf
168821 06-10-2025 12:09
E_a_2025_ses_iunie/E_a_romana_pentru_minoritatea_maghiara_bar_07_teoretic_umanist_2025.pdf
231346 06-10-2025 08:04
E_a_2025_ses_iunie/E_a_romana_pentru_minoritatea_maghiara_var_07_tehnologic_2025.pdf
227730 06-10-2025 08:04
E_a_2025_ses_iunie/E_a_romana_pentru_minoritatea_maghiara_var_07_teoretic_real_2025.pdf
225278 06-10-2025 08:04
E_a_2025_ses_iunie/E_a_romana_pentru_minoritatea_maghiara_var_07_teoretic_umanist_2025.pdf
187479 06-10-2025 12:03
E_a_2025_ses_iunie/E_a_romana_real_tehn_2025_bar_07.pdf
210623 06-10-2025 12:03
E_a_2025_ses_iunie/E_a_romana_real_tehn_2025_var_07.pdf
184431 06-10-2025 12:46
E_a_2025_ses_iunie/E_a_romana_uman_ped_2025_bar_07.pdf
209890 06-10-2025 12:46
E_a_2025_ses_iunie/E_a_romana_uman_ped_2025_var_07.pdf
--------- -------
1973842 11 files
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
FWIW, the `unzip` CLI tool also seems to mess it up, creating a normal file
instead of the directory. According to the `less` output (which can list .zip
archive files), the directory permissions flag is set for that odd item.
Other zip utilities seem to correctly parse the archive and allow viewing the
PDF files (for example, Samsung's My Files app or neovim's zip reader module),
so it's probably an edge case for Ark.
I have not looked deeper and don't know the exact internals, but I hypothesize
that Ark probably expects directory entries to end in a slash, yet the
government's weird zip archiver does not conform to this.
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