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Recently, my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been unable to extract any sort of ZIP files, it will always get stuck on "Verifying Destination" on the GUI, see here: GUI of the error

I tried running nautilus through the command line to see what was going on, and it spits out the following line of codes hundreds of times before inevitably crashing: Terminal output

I've created ZIP files of my own of varying sizes as well as downloading various ones from online; regardless of the contents, size, or creation source, extracting the files simply does not work, and nautilus will crash after a few minutes of idling.

Trying to extract a zip through the command line using unzip will give the following error: unzip terminal error (note that the files are never extracted)

However, extracting a tar.xz file works fine, and if I simply drag the files out of archine manager and into a folder, the files end up there without a hitch. This is not a huge inconvinience but I'm very curious as to why this happening, and would also appreciate a fix. So far, I've tried restarting my computer, restarting nautilus, removing and reinstalling nautilus, removing and reinstalling ubuntu-desktop, removing and reinstalling unzip.

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  • You seem to like using sudo: perhaps some permissions in your user configuration are not anymore correct. You could temporarily create a new user, see if the issue persists in a fresh account. If not, then you know it is some damage in your user configuration. If yes, then it is a system wide issue.
    – vanadium
    Jun 15, 2021 at 6:46

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For anyone coming across this in the future, it seems to have been an issue with the kernel. I swapped to an older kernel and now unzipping works fine.

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I faced the same problem today.

Despite not being able to find a solution when right clicking and pressing extract, I managed to find an alternative method by left clicking on the zip file and extracting the files by pressing the Extract button as shown in the image attached . You will also need to create a new folder where the extracted files will be placed.

Hope this provides an alternative method if you do not want to switch to an older kernel!

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