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<link type="guide" xref="index#managing-archives"/>
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<desc>Add files or folders to your new archive.</desc>
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<revision pkgversion="3.4" date="2012-01-18" 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>Add files or folders to a new archive.</desc>
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<title>Create a new archive</title>
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Create a new archive with <app>File Roller</app>, by following these steps:
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<p>Create a new archive with <app>Archive Manager</app> by following these
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<p>Click the <gui>Create a new archive</gui> toolbar button, or click
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<guiseq><gui style="menu">Archive</gui><gui style="menuitem">New…</gui></guiseq></p>
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<guiseq><gui style="menu">Archive</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">New…</gui></guiseq>.</p>
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<p>The file chooser will open. Use it to name your new archive file and
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choose its location, and click <gui>Create</gui>.</p>
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<p>The file chooser will open: name your new archive file and choose the
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location for it to be saved to, then click <gui>Create</gui> to
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<p>In this dialog you may also choose the type of the file format that
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you want to use, available extensions should be listed below. By
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clicking <gui>Other options</gui> you can set a password, or split your
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new archive into smaller parts. You should specify the size of the
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volume in <gui>MB</gui>.</p>
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<p>In this dialog, you may also choose the file format that you want to
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use: available extensions are listed at the bottom. If you do not choose
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a file format, the new archive will be a <file>tar.gz</file>.</p>
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<p>By clicking <gui>Other Options</gui> you can set a password, or
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split your new archive into smaller, individual files by selecting the
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relevant option and specifying the volume for each part in
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<p>Add the desired files to your archive by clicking the
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<gui>Add files to the archive</gui> toolbar button, or by clicking
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<guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Add files…</gui></guiseq>. <app>File Roller</app>
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also allows you to add whole folders. To do this, click the
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<gui>Add a folder to the archive</gui> toolbar button, or select
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<guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Add a folder…</gui></guiseq></p>
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<p>Add the desired files to your archive by clicking the <gui>Add files
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to the archive</gui> toolbar button, or by clicking
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<guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui><gui style="menuitem">Add
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files…</gui></guiseq>. <app>Archive Manager</app> also allows you to add
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whole folders by clicking the <gui>Add a folder to the archive</gui>
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toolbar button, or selecting <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Add a folder</gui></guiseq>.</p>
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<p>When you add a folder to your archive, you will be offered some
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<item><p>Whether to include subfolders or not</p></item>
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<item><p>Choose which files should be included</p></item>
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<item><p>Select which subfolders or files are to be excluded</p></item>
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<item><p>Whether to include subfolders or not.</p></item>
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<item><p>Choose which files should be included.</p></item>
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<item><p>Select which subfolders or files are to be excluded.</p></item>
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<p>Not all archive file formats support folders — if the file format
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that you are using does not, you will not be warned. If the file format
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that you are using does not support folders, the files from the folders
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will be added, but not the folder itself.</p>
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<p>Once you finish adding files, your archive is ready.</p>
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<p>Once you finish adding files, the archive is ready; you do not need to
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