Opening an existing archive Next
Menu : File > Open...

Note: You can also open an archive by dragging it from your file explorer and dropping it onto the application.

General

The open file dialog allows the selection of one archive file, select the archive you wish to open and then press the open button.

File Types

The archive file's type is identified by looking at it's magic number (see note at end of page), not at it's extension. The following types will be correctly identified...
  - Zip
  - GZip
  - Tar
  - BZip2
  - GZip files containing a Tar archive.
  - GZip files containing a Zip archive.
  - BZip2 files containing a Tar archive.
  - BZip2 files containing a Zip archive.

Note :
A magic number is a file type identifier embedded in the start of every file.