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File Roller seems to unpack but no files end up on disk

Asked by Ezion

File Roller acts like everything is OK.
It opens a RAR and says it is extracting the files.
However there is nothing written to the hard drive.

When File Roller does a Integrity check it shows the RAR files are OK and of version 2.0
The following archiver packs have been installed: 7zip, unrar-free

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Please open a terminal and run file-roller by typing the name so type:

file-roller

extract the file and see the file-roller messages into terminal window

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Ezion (ezion67) said : 		#2

Starting file-roller from a terminal had no effect there was no output from file-roller to the terminal at all. :(
Hope this shines a light anyways...

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Please try to use the unrar file from terminal...

to test the file to extract:

unrar t your_file.rar

to extract it:

unrar x your_file.rar

If this doesn't solve you may also install the unrar-nonfree package and try it... still from terminal:

sudo apt-get install unrar-nonfree

unrar-nonfree x your_file.rar

Hope this helps

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Ezion (ezion67) said : 		#4

Still nothing.
Both the free and nonfree unrar packages give similar results when run from the terminal.

<copy from terminal>

theo@atom1:~/Downloads/TheGlades$ unrar x the.glades.s01e06.hdtv.xvid-fqm.rar

unrar 0.0.1 Copyright (C) 2004 Ben Asselstine, Jeroen Dekkers

Extracting from /home/theo/Downloads/TheGlades/the.glades.s01e06.hdtv.xvid-fqm.rar

Extracting the.glades.s01e06.hdtv.xvid-fqm.avi Failed
1 Failed

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Ezion (ezion67) said : 		#5

Sorry, was not finished yet

Terminal output for testing the same file was
<copy from terminal>

theo@atom1:~/Downloads/TheGlades$ unrar t the.glades.s01e06.hdtv.xvid-fqm.rar

unrar 0.0.1 Copyright (C) 2004 Ben Asselstine, Jeroen Dekkers

RAR archive /home/theo/Downloads/TheGlades/the.glades.s01e06.hdtv.xvid-fqm.rar

Pathname/Comment
                  Size Packed Ratio Date Time Attr CRC Meth Ver
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 the.glades.s01e06.hdtv.xvid-fqm.avi
             367500776 19999893 5% 16-08-10 00:00 .....A 47807A4D m0? 2.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    1 367500776 19999893 5%

</copy from terminal>

However i tried with several different RAR archives and all failed to exstract.
The time it takes to process the files seems to be right, except nothing is written to disk.

Unzipping a ZIP file with file-roller did work as expected so the problem seems to be with RAR writing its output to somewhere.

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Ezion (ezion67) said : 		#6

De installing all unrar and reinstalling the non-free version solved the problem.
Thanks for your help.