This may be an Ubuntu bug in File Roller (the default archiver installed in Ubuntu).
To work around this, you can use the Terminal. Use the following commands :
cd [DIRECTORY]
tar -xvzf [ARCHIVE NAME]
** Right click on the file and select Properties
. Copy the content under Location
. Replace the [DIRECTORY]
by it. Do the same and Copy the content under Name
. Replace [ARCHIVE NAME]
with it.
The first command changes your current working directory to the directory containing the archive. The second command invokes the tar
utility to extract the file.