You can use the Engrampa Archive Manager application, found in the MATE menus
at Menu > Accessories > Engrampa Archive Manager, to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. An archive is a file that
acts as a container for other files. Sometimes referred to generically as a "zipped file" or
a "compressed file," an archive can contain many files, folders, and subfolders, usually in compressed form.
Note
Your first MATE menu choice depends on which of the Panel Layouts you have selected.
If you chose the default Familiar (Ubuntu-MATE) Layout, the first menu item is Menu. It is also the first menu item for Contemporary Layout, Redmond Layout, and Pantheon Layout. Applications is the first item for the Traditional Layout. The Netbook Layout, Mutiny Layout, and Cupertino Layout have no label and simply display the MATE logo to represent the menu.
The most common archive format on UNIX and Linux systems is the tar archive compressed with a file name ending in "tar.gz" or "tar.bz." The most common archive format on Windows systems is the archive created with applications that generate archives with a file name ending with the ".zip" extension. Archive Manager supports all of these formats, and if you have the appropriate command-line tools installed, it will support many more.
The Archive Manager window contains the elements listed in the sections below.
Tip
For help topics on this application, see the Archive Manager manual by pressing F1 while Archive Manager is open.
Menu Bar
The menus on the menubar contain all of the commands you need to work with files in Archive Manager. Note that if you have chosen a layout that uses the Global Menu, the menubar items will be displayed in the Global Menu rather than within the Archive Manager window.
Toolbar
The toolbar contains icon buttons that represent a subset of the commands that you can access from the menubar.
Using Archive Manager
To create a new archive file, you can choose Open from the menu, click and drag one or more files or folders from the Caja File Browser window into the Archive Manager window, or right-click one or more files in Caja and select Compress from the menu.
To expand a compressed file's contents, you start by opening the archive by double-clicking it in the File Browser. Next, you can choose one or more files in the Archive Manager window and either choose Extract from the menu or drag them to the desktop or other location where you want the files to end up.