[Gllug] Tarball GUI

[John G Walker]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:07:46 +0100 John G Walker
<johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I back up my data daily to a tarball and, once upon a time, if I
> needed to restore a file, I could open it up with Konqueror and copy
> the file from the archive via drag and drop.
> 
> However, I now find that, whether I use Konqueror or Ark, only some of
> the files are shown. A command line listing of the tarball shows that
> the files are present in the backup, but I can't seem to get at them
> via a GUI.
> 
> Is there some limitation on the size of tarball these programs will
> handle (which must be absolutely identical, given what I see) or is
> there some other limitation I'm not aware of? And is there anything I
> can do about this? 
> 
> I really would like to be able to see the files I have and to extract
> what's there, not what I think is there.
> 
> I'm running openSUsE 10.2 / KDE,
> 

No one know?

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 All the best,
 John
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