Missing nemo right-click "extract/compress files"

Question

recently I installed nemo as default filemanager replacing the nautilus. So far it work perfectly except the fact that I missed the "right click extract/compress". I've installed nemo 2.2.2 and nemo-fileroller through apt-get command on Ubuntu 14.04.

How can I have the right click menu for to "extract/compress"?

Is it possible to indicate exceptions in extensions and mimetypes? So, in other file managers, in a compressed file you don't see the contextual menu: "compress". — rainerhg7, Feb 28 '19 at 09:34

score 34 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 04 '16 at 19:51

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Very simply, all you should need to do is install the nemo-fileroller package:

sudo apt-get install nemo-fileroller

To apply the changes quit the file-manager with

nemo -q

to then (re-)start it like you normally would.

edited Dec 04 '16 at 19:51

David Foerster

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Dammit wish i would have saw this before the other thing now i don't know which works better – Nicholas DiPiazza Jun 15 '16 at 04:34
I have tried doing it this way, but it just didn't work.... I even tried it on multiple Ubuntu installs – dBlaze Jun 16 '16 at 06:24
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It works, you have to restart file manager though: `nemo -q` – wim Nov 10 '16 at 23:17
I tired that and didn't work, but the action files did. – PJ_Finnegan Dec 02 '16 at 11:50
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It's work for me – Nirmal Aug 28 '18 at 13:02
Simpler solution and works great – ThePhi Nov 25 '18 at 07:56

score 18 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 08 '16 at 14:11

Okay, I've tried lots of "solutions" but none of them work, so I went and dug out how things work, and here's how I did it on Ubuntu 14.04 and Nemo 2.2.2...

Open up terminal and type cd ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/
Create a new file/action for Compress by typing nano compress.nemo_action

Paste this contents into newly created file

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Compress...
Comment=compress %N
Exec=file-roller -d %F
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
Selection=Any
Extensions=any;

Save the file and exit (CTRL+X, and just Enter)
Create a new file/action for "Extract here" by typing nano extracthere.nemo_action

Paste this contents into newly created file

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Extract here
Comment=Extract here
Exec=file-roller -h %F
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
 #Stock-Id=gtk-cdrom
Selection=Any
Extensions=zip;7z;ar;cbz;cpio;exe;iso;jar;tar;tar;7z;tar.Z;tar.bz2;tar.gz;tar.lz;tar.lzma;tar.xz;

Save the file and exit (CTRL+X, and just Enter)
You're done. If you still don't have Compress/Extract here options in Nemo, just restart or log out/in.

Creating Nemo actions is the only way I've achieved this, I've tried several repos and tutorial of which none worked.

Thanks a lot, it worked. Just a note: since I wanted to apply the changes system.-wide, I put the new action files in /usr/local/share/nemo/actions instead of .local/... — PJ_Finnegan, Dec 02 '16 at 11:52
In case someone else stumbles here that does not use Ubuntu, it worked also on rhel7 with Nemo 2.8.7 — bartgol, Dec 14 '16 at 15:10
EDIT: to apply the changes system.-wide, I put the new action files in /usr/share/nemo/actions instead of .local/.. — PJ_Finnegan, Jan 19 '17 at 11:40

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 10 '17 at 02:52

To improve the Compress/Extract integration, I'm posting an Escape-Safe way (because folders with spaces in the name was crashing my file-roller):

Create the following .nemo_action files and their contents, at /usr/share/nemo/actions:

compress.nemo_action:

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Compress...
Comment=Compress "%f"
Exec=file-roller --add %F --default-dir=%P
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
Selection=notnone
Extensions=any;
Quote=double

extract-here.nemo_action:

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Extract here
Comment=Extract "%f" here
Exec=file-roller --extract-here %F
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
Selection=notnone
Extensions=zip;7z;ar;cbz;cpio;exe;iso;jar;tar;tar.Z;tar.bz2;tar.gz;tar.lz;tar.lzma;tar.xz;
Quote=double

extract-to.nemo_action:

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Extract to...
Comment=Extract to a folder of your choice.
Exec=file-roller --extract %F
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
Selection=notnone
Extensions=zip;7z;ar;cbz;cpio;exe;iso;jar;tar;tar.Z;tar.bz2;tar.gz;tar.lz;tar.lzma;tar.xz;
Quote=double

If I put EscapeSpaces=true and Quote=double at the same time it won't work, Quote=double is enough to escape the spaces. — PJ_Finnegan, Jan 19 '17 at 11:46

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 29 '15 at 10:55

I believe the above nemo actions is missing the "Quote=double" parameter otherwise files/directories that have space(s) in their name won't work. e.g.

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Compress...
Comment=compress %N
Exec=file-roller -d %F
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
Selection=any
Extensions=any;
Quote=double

Also useful is an "Extract to..." action, which allows you to select a different path where you may want to extract the files to.

e.g.
extractto.nemo_action

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Extract to...
Comment=Extract to...
Exec=file-roller -f %F
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
#Stock-Id=gtk-cdrom
Selection=any
Extensions=zip;7z;ar;cbz;cpio;exe;iso;jar;tar;tar;7z;tar.Z;tar.bz2;tar.gz;tar.lz;tar.lzma;tar.xz;
Quote=double

Missing nemo right-click "extract/compress files"

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