Difference between "extract archive here" and "extract archive here, autodetect subfolder" in EndeavourOS KDE

[nicknick]

Hello all friends.

When I was using Windows 10, when I right-clicked on packaged files like zip, rar, 7z, etc, I had the option "extract here/extract to subfolder, etc).

On windows, the first option will extract all files without a folder, and the second option will create a folder with the same name and extract the files inside.

But in EndeavourOS KDE I think it doesn’t work exactly the same.

Does anyone know what the difference is between “extract archive here” and “extract archive here, autodetect subfolder”?

I’ve tried both, but I don’t know which is the difference exactly, I haven’t noticed anything different.

Thanks in advance.

[TheRaOct]

If I’m not mistaken “extract archive here” simply extracts the archive to a new directory of the same name, whereas “extract archive here, autodetect subfolder” will, in case your archive only contains one subfolder, extract that subfolder directly, i.e. not create a directory with the archive name.
That way you won’t have a new directory which just contains another directory and nothing else. Just a convenience feature, nothing more.

[xircon]

Depends on the archive.

1. Archive is called foo and contains 3 files, say 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt

• Extract here - will put the files into the directory.
• Auto detect will create a folder called the same as the archive if it can.

If the files are in the archive in a folder called bar containing same 3 files, then they will be extracted to called bar.