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Mohsin
Asked: 2018-06-26 22:34:04 +0800 CST

Error `Archive not supported` while opening extracted .js file in 18.04

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I am getting this message from Archive Manager when trying to open a text file:

Could not open “users.js”
Archive type not supported.

I've tried different archive managers but not one works!

List of application I have in my machine to extract:

  1. Archive Mounter
  2. Xarchier (just downloaded but not working)
  3. Archive Manager (default one)

This is the output of file users.js -> users.js: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators

files archive filemanager unzip

1 Answers

  1. Archive manager programs are not designed to open plain text files.

    It seems there is a bug somewhere with file associations that I've also encountered in Ubuntu 20.04 where the system defaults to opening .js files with archive-manager

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