I noted that when I extract files from a zip archive with “extract here”
Ark changes the dates of the files to the current date, rather than keeping
the original.
Is this a bug or is there some setting that will retain the original dates?
Thank you for any pointers.
-G-
I don’t use ark but a quick look around showed no such setting. It appears to be a no bells or whistles application.
If you want to preserve the file dates on extraction, it looks like you need another archiver program, or the command line program unzip.
ken yap wrote:
> I don’t use ark but a quick look around showed no such setting. It
> appears to be a no bells or whistles application.
I reported the bug. It seems that it used to do the same for tar.gz
archives.
> If you want to preserve the file dates on extraction, it looks like you
> need another archiver program, or the command line program unzip.
Yes, the unzip command does it right, but as far as I know ark is a front
end to many other compression programs, so if it is using unzip for that,
then it might be easy to fix.
Cheers,
-G-
I don’t use ark but a quick look around showed no such setting. It
appears to be a no bells or whistles application.
If you want to preserve the file dates on extraction, it looks like you
need another archiver program, or the command line program unzip.
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ken yap wrote:
> I don’t use ark but a quick look around showed no such setting. It
> appears to be a no bells or whistles application.
I reported the bug. It seems that it used to do the same for tar.gz
archives.
> If you want to preserve the file dates on extraction, it looks like you
> need another archiver program, or the command line program unzip.
Yes, the unzip command does it right, but as far as I know ark is a front
end to many other compression programs, so if it is using unzip for that,
then it might be easy to fix.
Cheers,
-G-