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<link type="guide" xref="index#managing-archives"/>
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<desc>View an existing archive and its content.</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>View an existing archive and its content.</desc>
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<title>View an archive</title>
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<p>There are two ways of viewing the archive:</p>
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<p>There are two ways to view an archive:</p>
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<p>To use this view, click <guiseq><gui style="menu">View</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">View All Files</gui></guiseq>. <app>File Roller</app>
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will list all files inside the archive. You will see their names, sizes,
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types, dates of the last modification and locations.</p>
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<p>You may use these column headings mentioned above (name, size…) to
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sort the files in your archive. Do this by clicking on them, and click
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the same one again to sort in reverse order.</p>
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<title>View all files</title>
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<p>Click <guiseq><gui style="menu">View</gui><gui style="menuitem">View
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All Files</gui></guiseq>. <app>Archive Manager</app> will list all files
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inside the archive. You will see their names, sizes, types, dates of the
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last modification and locations.</p>
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<p>You may use the column headings mentioned above (name, size…) to
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sort the files in your archive. Do this by clicking on them; you can
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toggle to sort in reverse order.</p>
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<p>View as a folder</p>
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<title>View as a folder</title>
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<p>This view displays the classic directory structure. To use this, click
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<guiseq><gui style="menu">View</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">View as a Folder</gui></guiseq>.</p>
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<p>While viewing your archive in this way, press
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<key>F9</key>, or click <guiseq><gui style="menu">View</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Folders</gui></guiseq> option. You will see a
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tree view of the folders in the side pane. It allows you to navigate
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easily between folders.</p>
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<p>While viewing your archive in this way, you can press <key>F9</key>,
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or click <guiseq><gui style="menu">View</gui>
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<gui style="menuitem">Folders</gui></guiseq> option, to see a tree
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view of the folders in the side pane. It allows you to navigate easily
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<title>Open files in your archive</title>
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<p>Open files, which are in you archive by double-clicking the file name, or
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right-click on the file name and select <gui>Open</gui>.
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<app>File Roller</app> will open the file with the default application for
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<p>Open the file with different application by following these steps:</p>
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<item><p>Select the file</p></item>
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<item><p>Right-click</p></item>
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<item><p>Click <gui>Open With…</gui></p></item>
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<p>Open files which are in your archive by double-clicking on the file
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name, or by right-clicking on the file name and selecting <gui>Open</gui>.
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<app>Archive Manager</app> will open the file with the default application
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for that file type.</p>
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<p>Open the file with a different application by following these steps:</p>
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<p>Right click on the file.</p>
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<p>Click <gui>Open With…</gui>.</p>
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<p>Select the application that you want to use and click
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<gui>Select</gui>.</p>