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<link type="guide" xref="index#managing-archives"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="password-protection"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="archive-extract-advanced-options"/>
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<desc>Extract files or folders from your archive</desc>
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<revision pkgversion="3.4" date="2011-12-12" status="review"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.6" date="2012-08-05" status="review"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-03-25" status="candidate"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Marta Bogdanowicz</name>
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<email>majus85@gmail.com</email>
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<credit type="editor">
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<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
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<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
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<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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<desc>Extract files or folders from your archive.</desc>
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<title>Extract an archive</title>
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<p>Extract files from archive using <app>File Roller</app> by following these
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<p>Extract files from an archive using <app>Archive Manager</app> by
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following these steps:</p>
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<item><p><link xref="archive-open">Open</link> an archive.</p></item>
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<item><p>Click <guiseq><gui style="menu">Archive</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Extract…</gui></guiseq> or click the <gui>Extract</gui>
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toolbar button.</p></item>
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<item><p>Choose the location in the file chooser, into which the files
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should be extracted. This will be the destination folder.</p>
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<p><link xref="archive-open">Open</link> an archive.</p>
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<p>Click <guiseq><gui style="menu">Archive</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Extract…</gui></guiseq> or click <gui>Extract</gui>
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in the toolbar button.</p>
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<p>Choose where you want the archive to be extracted to in the file
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chooser. This will be the destination folder.</p>
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<p>There are additional options in this dialog. See
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<link xref="archive-extract-advanced-options">advanced options for
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extracting archives</link>.</p>
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<p>See <link xref="archive-extract-advanced-options">advanced options
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for extracting archives</link> for more extraction options.</p>
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<item><p>Click <gui>Extract</gui>.</p></item>
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<item><p>If an archive is protected by a
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Roller</app> will request it. Type the password and click
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<gui>OK</gui>.</p></item>
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<item><p>The application will show you the progress bar in a new dialog.
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<p>Click <gui>Extract</gui>.</p>
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<p>If an archive is protected by a
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<link xref="password-protection">password</link>, <app>Archive
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Manager</app> will request it. Type in the password and click
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<p>The application will show you the progress bar in a new dialog.
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If the extraction completes successfully, you will be asked whether you
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<item><p><gui>Quit</gui> - this option closes <app>File Roller</app></p></item>
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<item><p><gui>Show the files</gui> - after clicking this the
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destination folder will be open in <app>Nautilus</app></p></item>
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<item><p><gui>Close</gui> - the dialog will be closed and you will see
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your archive again</p></item>
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<p><gui>Quit</gui> to close <app>Archive Manager</app>.</p>
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<p><gui>Show the files</gui> to view the destination folder with
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<p><gui>Close</gui> the dialog.</p>