Bug 460886

Summary: Make it possible to extract files without also extracting their parent folders
Product: [Applications] ark Reporter: tomtomtomreportingin
Component: generalAssignee: Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: aacid, mads, rthomsen6
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 22.08.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454400
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Description tomtomtomreportingin 2022-10-23 08:59:24 UTC 
SUMMARY
Something that's been bothering me for a while is that when I choose to select and extract specific folders/files, it also extracts the parent folders along with them. This is particularly annoying when I need a specific file structure for something to work: for example adding a plugin to a certain program.

It may be suggested to disable "Preserve paths when extracting", but this ruins the structure of folders I've decided to extract.

Let's look at this folder structure within a zip:
- folder1
-> folder2
-->folder3*
-->file1*

There is currently no way to quickly extract only folder3 + file1, without ark also extracting their parents folder1 and folder2, despite the fact that I did not select them.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian sid
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6