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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#managing-archives"/>
    <desc>Add files or folders to your new archive.</desc>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Marta Bogdanowicz</name>
      <email>majus85@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>
  </info>

  <title>Create a new archive</title>

  <p>
  Create a new archive with <app>File Roller</app>, by following these steps:
  </p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Click the <gui>Create a new archive</gui> toolbar button, or click
      <guiseq><gui style="menu">Archive</gui><gui style="menuitem">New…</gui></guiseq></p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>The file chooser will open. Use it to name your new archive file and
      choose its location, and click <gui>Create</gui>.</p>
      <note style="tip">
        <p>In this dialog you may also choose the type of the file format that
        you want to use, available extensions should be listed below. By
        clicking <gui>Other options</gui> you can set a password, or split your
        new archive into smaller parts. You should specify the size of the
        volume in <gui>MB</gui>.</p>
      </note>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Add the desired files to your archive by clicking the
      <gui>Add files to the archive</gui> toolbar button, or by clicking
      <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
      <gui style="menuitem">Add files…</gui></guiseq>. <app>File Roller</app>
      also allows you to add whole folders. To do this, click the
      <gui>Add a folder to the archive</gui> toolbar button, or select
      <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
      <gui style="menuitem">Add a folder…</gui></guiseq></p>
      <note style="tip">
        <p>When you add a folder to your archive, you will be offered some
        options:</p>
        <list>
          <item><p>Whether to include subfolders or not</p></item>
          <item><p>Choose which files should be included</p></item>
          <item><p>Select which subfolders or files are to be excluded</p></item>
        </list>
      </note>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Once you finish adding files, your archive is ready.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>
