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Josh65-2201 opened this issue Aug 15, 2022 · 3 comments
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Add support for viewing/editing 7zip SFX archives #9730

Josh65-2201 opened this issue Aug 15, 2022 · 3 comments

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Josh65-2201 commented Aug 15, 2022

What's the Problem?

7zip offers to compress as an SFX archives which show as .exe file (it's just a .7z file and mini extraction program) but Files doesnt support viewing and editing the contents.
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Add a right click option to view archive.

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@Josh65-2201 Josh65-2201 changed the title Add support for viewing/editing 7zip extraction archive Add support for viewing/editing 7zip SFX archives Aug 15, 2022
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yaira2 commented Aug 15, 2022

Is there any way to detect that it's an archive? We're able to detect 7z files based on the extension but that won't work for exe files.

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Not sure. I dont know how there internally structured, but the archive itself should just be a .7z file not sure if it can be read.
There is also meta data in properties > details, it has a file version and a copyright added to it from 7zip that could mabey be used.

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Merging with #45

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