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Add support for zip files #283
Description
What file type
Zip and other compression files
What application is using it
7zip
Please attach a sample file here
Currently not available (but you can easily make your own)
Motivation
It would be really nice beeing able to show the content of zip and other compression files. Then all apps would be able to use this feature without having to open the file in a new tab and/or downloading them, etc. :)
Activity
skjnldsv commentedon Nov 8, 2019
This is not what the viewer is about.
It would also not make any sense to show it in a view like the viewer offers :)
szaimen commentedon Nov 8, 2019
szaimen commentedon Nov 8, 2019
@skjnldsv Okay, I think I get now what your comment was about.
What I meant was beeing able to look inside a zip file with nextcloud viewer and show the content in a column view (or grid view).
So maybe this could technically be based on the file picker? :)
Really nice would be of course beeing able to also click on files inside these zip files and open them in another viewer instance to click through the content without having to download or unzipping it, etc. ;)
Would be a really killer feature especially for the mail app!
skjnldsv commentedon Nov 8, 2019
I'm really not sure :)
@jancborchardt, any opinion?
juliusknorr commentedon Nov 8, 2019
I'd say this is more something for a dedicated app, but it could use the viewer to display the contents.
szaimen commentedon Nov 8, 2019
Sounds reasonable to me.
Could you reopen the issue and move it to the Nextcloud/Server Repository so this idea doesn't get lost? :)
skjnldsv commentedon Nov 9, 2019
@szaimen let's leave it there for now :)
jancborchardt commentedon Nov 9, 2019
@szaimen please open a new issue in the server repository, that’s where this would belong. (And yes, it could have simply been moved there, but now there’s a lot of unrelated comments. :)
skjnldsv commentedon Nov 10, 2019
No, this is not the place!
Stop flooding the server repo please.
let's leave this here because this is where people are most likely to find it.
The only most logical place to put this would be a dedicated "app ideas for nextcloud" repo!
jancborchardt commentedon Nov 12, 2019
The thing is that openin a zip file and showing the files in it have nothing to do with the Viewer. That is related to the file list.
That is: When you click on a zip file, it should simply open it as if it is a folder. EDIT: Not in a popup.
A related app which allows manual extraction of zip files: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/extract
So if you like we can also simply close this issue.
szaimen commentedon Nov 12, 2019
Yeah but zip files should get opened in a popup view and this also in other apps like the mail app imo.
I like this idea 👍
I know this app, but extraction isn't the same like opening a zip file in a popup view...
tprivaterep commentedon Aug 3, 2022
I'm guessing 2 years later this isn't happening
szaimen commentedon Mar 7, 2023
I'd say this rather out of scope, right?
melMass commentedon Aug 13, 2024
It seems to be the opinion of all contributors but I don't get it. Isn't the viewer akin to macOS's quicklook (or google drive's viewer)
jancborchardt commentedon Aug 19, 2024
There is an "Extract" app with a lot of dependencies which I assume would be needed to make this possible. So I assume we would have to defer to this: https://github.com/PaulLereverend/NextcloudExtract
susnux commentedon Oct 25, 2026
Thank you for the suggestion and for taking the time to report it.
The Nextcloud Viewer is no longer developed as a standalone app. Its code has moved to the
@nextcloud/viewerlibrary, which is now maintained at https://github.com/nextcloud-libraries/nextcloud-viewer. Because of this, we will not add any further enhancements to this repository and are closing open feature requests here.If you are still interested in this feature, please open a new feature request in the library repository:
https://github.com/nextcloud-libraries/nextcloud-viewer/issues/new/choose
Feel free to link back to this issue so the existing discussion is not lost.