Xarchiver menu
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## Xarchiver menu

### File menu

#### New

Creates a new archive. The new archive dialog is opened. The archive is not effectively created until some content is added to it. Please note if the archive already exists and you choose to overwrite it, the existing archive will be deleted.

Figure 3.1. New dialog

#### Open

Opens a new archive. If you force Xarchiver to open an unsupported archive type an error message will be emitted. The archive type is detected by its magic header and not by the extension. Password protected archives are supported also. The password detection is done by looking for the password flag inside the archive structure except for rar ones since encrypted files in rar archives have an asterisk right before their filename. 7zip encrypted archives are not detected due to the complexity of 7zip format. Please see this thread on sf.net for more information.

#### Test

Tests the current archive. This option is disabled when the current archive was produced by an archiver who doesn't support testing.

#### Properties

Shows an archive dialog with useful info about the archive.

Figure 3.2. Archive properties dialog

#### Close

Close the current archive and frees all the memory in use by it.

#### Quit

Frees all the memory in use and quit Xarchiver.

### Action menu

#### Add

Shows the add dialog featuring the most used archiver cmd-line options. The password entry is disabled when the archive doesn't support encryption. Files and directories can be also added by dragging and dropping them from any file managers.

Figure 3.3. Add dialog

#### Extract

Shows the extract dialog featuring the most used archiver cmd-line options. The password entry is disabled when the current archive is not encrypted; instead if the archive is encrypted and you don't fill this field, Xarchiver will request you the password to extract the archive.

Figure 3.4. Extract dialog

#### Make SFX

Convert the current archive to self-extracting. This option is disabled when the current archive doesn't support this feature (e.g. tar archives). After converting an archive to self-extracting this option will be disabled.

#### Delete

Delete the selected files from the archive. A warning dialog will be shown.

#### View

Opens a window containing the ASCII dump of the selected ASCII file. If a file in the archive is encoded with a different enconding than in use by the system you will get an error message. See the the section called “What is the meaning of this error message?” for a possible solution.

#### Show Comment

If the current archive contains a comment this menu entry opens a window showing it.

#### Select

Select all the files in the window.

#### Deselect

Deselect all the files in the window.

#### Command line output

Opens a window containing the last archiver output.

#### Show ISO info

Opens an ISO properties dialog with useful info about the ISO image. This option is obviously disabled when no ISO image is loaded.

Figure 3.5. ISO properties dialog

#### Reset password

Clears the current password. The result of the operation is shown in the status bar. This option is useful when extracting files using Drag and Drop, allowing the user to choose another password if he entered it incorrectly.

### Help Menu

#### Help

Show this documentation in system installed browser. Currently firefox, opera and mozilla are supported.

#### About

Shows the credit dialog with the contributors to Xarchiver

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