Hi Guys,

I have unzip installed. I rarely use it. Today I tried to unzip a zip file and I got this message:

"Unable to recognise file type of filename.zip. Search for an application to open it?"

I tried other .zip files and got the same message.

When I click OK to "Search for an application to open it?" I get a list of all installed applications (including games) to select one for opening the .zip file. It seems the unzip is not linked to the .zip files.

I uninstalled/re-installed the unzip and it's the same issue.

Hope someone has a fix.

I use xarchiver instead.

If you have one of the last unzip versions, it only works in the command line, it hasn't file manager support.

Reason: Zap took the unzip project and his idea was to have splitted the old unzip (with filemanager support) in the normal unzip (with only command line support) and to have unzip-fm in order that it works from the file manager.

Actually, unzip-fm wasn't still launched by him, so it doesn't work from the file manager yet.

The best way to unzip files is, as Benson indicate, to use xarchiver.

Thanks for the clarification.

Today I needed to unzip a file and was so disappointed it did not work. In the end I had to turn on my PC.

Now I installed xarchiver and I won't be using either version of unzip anymore. unzip let me down.

What is the command line to get it to work?

unzip (filename)

or

unzip (filelocation/filename)

found this out the other day, too

unzip has got to go for me if it don't work with a FM...

Folks, use Emelfm2 as your file manager, then one-click unzip files with whatever unzip software your heart desires...