That's right, chromebook, aficionados, the ability to unzip zip files has arrived (experimentally) on chromebooks, with perhaps minus the Acer, at the moment, via the latest dev build 0.14.811.15: Press ctrl+alt+t (this is called "crosh") and type in
experimental_storage enable and press enter. Voila, I can now unzip files! Big thanks to
William for pointing this out to me:
http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com/2011/08/cr-48-dev-channel-update-01481115.html
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| See the Open archive action button on the right? |
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| Same archive file, unzipped. |
I assume this will land on the next stable release, so, in about six weeks (probably a touch longer, since Chrome OS 0.13 is still baking). I'm
really glad to have this obstacle removed. While I rarely deal with zip files, I absolutely
loathe having to do the back and forth of downloading/uploading.
Next, I really hope we'll get the ability to save files from a random site directly to Google Docs and unzip them (rather than just view and open certain files) there -- which seems to me would go nicely with the whole "new thought"/cloud computing concept.
4 comments:
Did anyone get this working on the Samsung Chromebooks? I tried it out but the command (experimental_storage) did not seem to be supported
Did you try experimental_storage enable?
Doesn't work for me. "unknown command"
Works for me, John. What machine and OS version/channel are you using?
I used a stable Cr-48 to test, this morning.
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