Chromebooks Can Now Unzip Files!!
Finally, Â something that all Chromebook uses have been waiting for. With the latest update to the dev channel, Chrome OS now has the ability to open zip files without any plugin or online tool.
CR-48 with Dev Channel Update: 0.14.811.15 you get to try this out with just a simple step of enabling this experimental feature.
How to Get This Working
Press Ctrl+T to go in to your command prompt. Now, type in  experimental_storage enable which will make this feature work on your Cr48.
We should soon see this being pushed to other Chromebooks like the Samsung Series5 and the Acer one. Thanks to Cougar Abogado for this tip!
10 Responses to “Chromebooks Can Now Unzip Files!!”
it’s a great feature!
just to correct you though, entering the terminal is ctrl + alt + t. ctrl + t only opens a new tab. i’m guessing it was just a typo though.
also, when enabling this in the terminal, it also turns on ntfs support, so if you have a large external hard drive, it now loads in the file manager.
lastly, before this update it was not intuitive to move files between folders on the file manager. now you can with cut, copy, and paste!
Thanks for the shout-out, Dinu.
So far as I’m aware, this would also be available on the Series 5. Maybe a Series 5 owner will let us know. For some reason, I think the Acer is being held back on this dev build (it’s the only machine not up to 0.14.811.15) : http://cros-omahaproxy.appspot.com/
+Robb. I like the NTFS observation. William mentioned that to me as well, and I failed to really take in what he meant.
P.S., Dinu, I like the new (or at least recent, right?) Google+ follow widget.
P.S.P.S. When do you guys think we’ll see Docs’ offline capability? (Google technically has until September 23 — end of summer.)
I also got excited when I saw the copy and paste buttons on the screen capture (and then I felt stupid about it…).
So far the only thing that I really miss on my chromebook is a way to easily sort and resize my pictures locally before I upload them to picasa web. This could be part of the Picasa pluggin somehow.
I hear you on both accounts. As for the local picture editing capability, I just finished the annoyance of uploading/editing a photo in Picasa, myself, so I feel your pain. I also imagine the Picasa plugin could have the capability baked in.
if i remember correcetly, chrome os has a built in basic image editor on the way as mentioned in the chromium os bugs. it’s supposed to offer basic resize, rotate, crop features.
Awesome. I sure hope so, as those basic features are usually all I want, anyway.
Great!!!
thx for the info.
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