[SOLVED] Archives that fail to extract take up space.

[roby718]

Having not used linux fir a long while, and just using mint, I'm probably missing an obvious solution. But you should probably take a crack at this anyway. I have a backup of a LOT of music in a zip archive, a backup. Now I was extracting all those in to my music folder with the usual archive tool. It stopped with an error:

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caution: filename not matched:  Music/\?\?nloco/
caution: filename not matched:  Music/\?\?nloco/The Matrix Reloaded/
caution: filename not matched:  Music/\?\?nloco/The Matrix Reloaded/08 \- Bruises.mp3

After this, the folder is not shown in the folder it was placed in, but appears to occupy space on my disk.

[xenopeek]

This happens sometimes, you may try the following:
1. Extract folder by folder (or file by file if it is just one big pile of files in the archive), and skip this problematic file.
2. Try extracting it from a terminal instead. What is the name of the archive?

Sometimes the Archive Manager can not handle properly all diacritic characters, so either skip that file or try to use a different tool to extract the files (for example from the terminal).

[roby718]

Well, I can certainly extract it, I just need top get back the 5GB of disk space that's seemingly disappeared.

[roby718]

Fixed.