Dolphin is set as the main program to open ZIP files. It has worked well for quite long, but now when I double click on a ZIP file, a red banner appears:
`Trying to open a file as a folder: file:///home/me/Downloads/archive.zip`
The banner has a “Open as File” button, which opens the ZIP file as expected. How can I make this behaviour the default?
When running Dolphin via terminal, I can also see this message:
kf.coreaddons: KDirWatch: "/home/me/Downloads/archive.zip" is a file. Use addFile!
Arch Linux 7.0.14-arch1-1, Plasma 6.7.1, Dolphin 26.04.2-1
when i look up my file associations for “zip” it points me to Ark and secondarily Kate for some reason… but it would never occur to me to put dolphin at the top of that list.
if you don’t like Ark, then you can install any number of other .zip file handlers (7zip comes to mind).
what dolphin is trying to tell you is that you cannot operate on the files inside of an archive the same way you can operate on files inside of a folder.
if you want to do much more than preview them, you need to extract them to folder, make your changes, then then wrap them back up into an archive again.
As I’ve said, this has worked fine for the past three years. Dolphin can open ZIP files, it just doesn’t do it automatically anymore.
i’m on plasma 5 and yes, i can “open” a .zip archive in dolphin without any warning messages, but my actions there are limited… i cannot rename a file for instance.
the newer versions of dolphin likely have the same limitations but now they come with a warning so users are not frustrated.
perhaps the warning should be a one-and-done dismissable warning and that might be a worthy “wish list” item for bugs.kde.org.