In Options > Settings, Open archive tab, are featured “Always ignore paths...” directives, in order to extract
items from  the archive in a flat mode without recreating the directory tree, as with “Extract (without paths)”.
These directives can be fine tuned for each special extraction mode: for drag and drop operations, for extract
and  open  with,  and  for  extract  selected  or  displayed  objects  (all  objects  shown  with  current  browsing  or
search filter).
Unlike  “Extract  (without  paths)”,  “Always  ignore  paths…”  directives  are  overridden  if  one  of  the  selected
objects is a directory, this because flat extraction will lose information about directory tree so it is considered
unfit  for  directories,  and  will  be  applied  only  if  files  are  selected.  The  same  rule  applies  when  extracting
objects from archives browsed in flat mode, consistently with behaviour of mainstream archive utilities.
To  apply  flat  extraction  to  a  directory,  rightclick,  extract  >  extract  selected  objects,  set  “Extract  (without
paths)”.
By default these directives are set on for “drag and drop” and “extract and open with” operations, so by default
all partial extraction operations starting from file/archive browser interface behaves in the same way, trying to
ignore  re-creating  paths,  while  by  default  all  special  operations  starting  from  the  extraction  confirmation
dialog (extract selected and displayed) will not.

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