1.why does xarchive dosen't read my rar files?
i see that xarchive has the rar wrappers but when the program start it tells me that:
/urs/share/xarchive/wrappers/rar.wrap.sh
Extensions **Needed program not found, ignored **
same message for: 7za,ace,arj
i need the rar to work for the torrent i download. the torrents are one main rar and r01 r02 r03 and so on. don't know if that matters

2. how can i disable the double file extension from showing up?
if i try to download something from iceweasel like a image when i save it shows like logo_phpBB.gif.png if it's a zip it shows like name.zip.zip

so great on windows but so idiotic on linux __{{emoticon}}__

1.Do you have unrar installed?

2.not sure why you get double file extension. Does this happen with all files?

I think I had problems with unrar. I simply reinstalled unrar using synaptic and that fixed the problem.

john

1.Yes. it's installed. Reinstalling didn't work same problem can't read rar archives.

2.did a little trial and error. it does the double extensions only in ice weasel when i save something. if it's a jpg i see were the name is name.jpg.png and in the right bottom corner the extension png is selected by default. i saved some xls files from yahoo mail and it saved them like file.xls.bin. wrong extension jpg saved like png xls like bin sa it's not only hte double extension

can you unrar from a terminal? cd to your download dir and
or if you have only some of the .rar files (say the first one or two)
john

i get this error from terminal with both commands:
bash: unrar: command not found

Try as root, although you shouldn't have too.

unrar no go.
any idea about the double extension?

Try the unrar-free package. It's limited but might help.

I was reading the ntfs-3g FAQ and i found this:
Why does Firefox duplicate file extensions?
This is a known bug in Firefox which affects FAT32 and NTFS partitions.
Status: Not NTFS-3G problem. The latest Firefox releases should fix this problem.
Sorry about the duplicate file extensions post i didn't know that.