biff baxter said:Hey Mickey - sorry to hear that. Did you try the different archiver integration scenarios at all in the file manager? If you open it up (file manager) and go to "edit-preferences-advanced" you will see there is archiver integration included file-roller, xarchiver, and squeeze. I have not played with that much as xarchiver works for what I need, but might be something for you if you want to roll out file-roller, but still have that right click context menu work with it. tks..biff   HOT DAMN TAMALES, AHAB! THAT WORKED! (Yes, I'm shouting.)Changed the Archiver Integration to file-roller and now it works perfectly! Thanks for that tip.   http://s19.postimage.org/fdtbf7ecf/th_DANCE_417.gif   (I'm not even Irish, but it's close enough to St. Patrick's Day to start celebrating this fix!) This post was edited by Mickey Way at March 2, 2012 10:40:40 AM PST

Over the past few days, I've tried every possible combination. It just doesn't work very well. Building every archive one piece at a time is too fiddley. I want to replace the OS's on 6 work computers. Creating zip files quickly is part of the job. Sorry, but as much as I like WattOS, I can't use it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wJWUaxFYPM This is how it works on other distros. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kANrcq2_oks&feature=youtu.be This post was edited by Mickey Way at February 23, 2012 7:04:51 PM PST

Well, I guess I'm just SOL for support on this issue. Too bad. I liked WattOS, but I can't use it for work if I can't create zip files.

I tried to create a zip file and get "An error occurred while accessing the archive" with no discription in the text box. Then tried all compression formats...same results. Googled this and there are plenty of posts about this, but no fixes. (I searched "xarchiver" on this forum, but no hits.) Any thoughts about how to get this to work?