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Weird bug in "Extract Here" right click action in some instances

  • Subject: Weird bug in "Extract Here" right click action in some instances
  • From: Nash JC - NCF <nashjc [ at ] ncf [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:13:28 -0400
In building a small but esoteric program to animate dance choreographies I downloaded a
200K bz2 tarball. When I ran make, it was obvious a file (figures.c) was missing.
The author sent the file and things built (apart, of course, from the usual dependency
woes). But he said the file was in the tarball.

Using CLI tar, 7z, and other tools, it's there! Thunar, Nemo and Double Commander all show
failures some of the time, and on more than one machine.

Does anyone know where the right-click scripts to do extraction are located? I've tried
to find them where some web pages claim they should be e.g., ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/
but no joy.

This is worrying, as archives should just work.

Cheers, JN


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