At the moment ark can quickly extract files when it has an archive open, but there is no way to make it also delete the file once extracted:
Almost every time I open an archive I have to manually delete the file afterwards.
The only alternative is to open dolphin, navigate to the directory, right click and “extract here and trash archive”:
This feature would be invaluable to me!
I can see the value, I often download archives through firefox and have them open on finish, then after extracting they’ll stick around /tmp/firefox and slowly fill up my ram disk / zram if I don’t remember cleaning up manually now and then.
The thing is, I mostly extract by drag and dropping into a folder opened in dolphin, so I’m not sure where to put a “delete after extract” option for my scenario without ending up deleting archives I didn’t intend to. Similar problem with the quick-extract-dropdown.
For “extract to”, which opens the folder picker, there’s a perfectly fine “options” panel on the right that could be extended, though.
Either way, you’d do best to open a feature request through https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?component=general&list_id=3528877&product=ark&resolution=---
And it’ll probably take quite some time until a solution is found and implemented.
Maybe we can come up with a workaround for your current problems? Like a cron job deleting archive files older than x in a specific folder or something.
Thanks. I’ve submitted a bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521102
