Nautilus doesn't show tar.gz

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Supamarioana

Nautilus doesn't show tar.gz

Post by Supamarioana »

Hello guys,

Today I installed my first Linux OS and thus have a lot of questions. :)
One is: When I download a tar.gz file to my desktop, why doesn't it show on the desktop or in nautilus? I am able to see it in the terminal. And I can see the file in nautilus, when I "open as root". I can see why it makes sense to only allow root to open these files, but why must I be root to just SEE them? And is there something I can (permanently) do about that?
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MaddogF16

Re: Nautilus doesn't show tar.gz

Post by MaddogF16 »

Check your settings in Mintdesktop, in the menu under system >> preferences >> Mintdesktop
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DrHu

Re: Nautilus doesn't show tar.gz

Post by DrHu »

You might be able to do it with a nautilus script, but all that does is enable you to use an archiver or terminal or other method to see, and use a tar file, nautilus itself is not doing it natively..
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/114134

I don't think nautilus can do it, as well as there being various bugs with file icons for tar files and other file types
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linu ... iving.html
http://vault.centos.org/4.4/docs/html/r ... iving.html
File roller, with nautilus..
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Supamarioana

Re: Nautilus doesn't show tar.gz

Post by Supamarioana »

Well, I started Mint today and everything was fine. Perhaps some configurations just needed a reboot...
But thanks for helping anyway
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DrHu

Re: Nautilus doesn't show tar.gz

Post by DrHu »

Supamarioana wrote:Well, I started Mint today and everything was fine. Perhaps some configurations just needed a reboot... But thanks for helping anyway
Really, so how do you show a tar file within nautilus ?
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lagagnon

Re: Nautilus doesn't show tar.gz

Post by lagagnon »

Supamarioana wrote:One is: When I download a tar.gz file to my desktop, why doesn't it show on the desktop or in nautilus?
I bet the file was where it should be - ie in the directory to which you downloaded it and when you went into nautilus you simply did not navigate to the correct directory where the .tar.gz file was. Am I correct?
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Supamarioana

Re: Nautilus doesn't show tar.gz

Post by Supamarioana »

lagagnon wrote:Am I correct?
No, it was like I said: I started my computer and could see the files on my desktop. I already tried a restart the day before but it didn't help then. The files were where they were supposed to be (it's not that difficult to find the ~/Desktop folder :wink: ). Never had that problem again.
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