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Deleting a file could silently remove a different entry. Both cases reach back to v0.15, when editing a zip shipped.

Now built on main (it no longer touches the writer, so it no longer sits on #266).

What it was

A change names entries by number, and a number belongs to the engine that listed the archive, and to that archive:

  • An archive opened within the archive. A delete inside it recorded the inner archive's number against the outer one: deleting x.txt from inner.zip removed the outer archive's a.txt — with the default engine, and no error. Deleting the row of an opened inner archive did the same for everything it held, and adding inside one wrote the file into the outer archive, in a folder named like the inner one.
  • XAD opened the zip. With XAD picked for zip in Settings, a delete handed XAD's numbers to 7-Zip's writer. XAD folds __MACOSX sidecars into the files they describe, so its numbers differ: in appledouble.zip, deleting payload/Contents/MacOS/helper removed payload/Contents/Resources/._icon.png, and helper stayed.

What changed

  • An archive opened within the archive is its own. Nothing inside it can be deleted or added through the outer one (canRemove, canAddHere); the toolbar, the context menu, Edit ▸ Delete and the drop zone follow. The inner archive's own row still goes, alone. Editing inside one is Edit an archive opened inside an archive #269.
  • Editing needs an engine that writes. An archive is editable only when the engine that opened it has edit for its format in the catalog (EngineDto.canEdit). For zip that is 7-Zip, the default; a zip XAD opened is read-only. Editing whatever engine listed the archive needs an entry model of MacPacker's own: Normalize archive entries across engines #268.
  • Settings says which engines edit. In Settings → Formats an engine that can edit the format carries a pencil, in its menu and in the table, and the engine info explains the pencil. The engine menus now line up: a menu picker takes the width of its widest entry, so every entry gets the width of the longest engine name at the table's small size, with room for the pencil — computed from the names, so a longer one cannot be cut off.
  • An open archive keeps the engine that opened it — through the reload after a save too — and so does an archive opened within it. A change of engine in Settings applies to archives opened afterwards. Switched to 7-Zip while XAD's listing was showing, extraction took XAD's numbers too.
  • A window's editing belongs to the archive it holds. canBeEdited was never reset, so after a zip a 7z opened in the same window stayed editable.

An earlier version of this PR looked entries up by path in the writer; that moved into #268 as a reference.

Tests

In ZipWriteTests, all failing before:

  • anArchiveOpenedInsideIsNotChangedThroughTheOuterOne
  • aZipXADOpenedCannotBeChanged
  • aSaveKeepsTheEngineThatOpenedTheArchive
  • anOpenArchiveKeepsTheEngineThatReadIt, anArchiveOpenedInsideKeepsTheEngineThatReadIt — a switch in Settings while the window is open, through the real ArchiveEngineConfigStore
  • editingEndsWithTheArchiveItBelongsTo

And onlySevenZipEditsAndOnlyZip in CoverageGapTests, for the catalog both the window and Settings read.

Taking each guard out makes its test fail. Not tested: a nested archive of the outer one's format that only another engine can read keeps the outer archive's pin, so extracting from it fails, rather than reading the outer one's entries wrong — no fixture reads in only one engine inside such an archive.

swift test: 571 passed. The app builds. One new UI string, "Edits archives, not only opens them", exported into Localizable.xcstrings with a comment for translators. The Settings screen was checked by hand.

UI tests: testDeleteFileFromZip, testDeleteFolderFromZip, testDragFromFinderAddsToArchive, testDropWindowCompressesDroppedFile and testQuickCompressRefusesAnUnconfirmedPassword pass, together in one run. The three Finder drags had stopped working on macOS 27, on main too: XCTest plays press(forDuration:thenDragTo:) back as a touch gesture there ("Event is touch-exclusive" in testmanagerd's log), and no mouse drag happened. They use click(forDuration:thenDragTo:) now. The two drop-window tests also pin -dropWindowFormat zip: Quick Compress opens on the format it was last used with, which on this Mac was 7z.

Changelog: "Deleting a file could remove a different one", in the file's 15 languages — machine-translated, worth a read by someone who reads them.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue where deleting a file could remove a different file.
    • Prevented edits to content inside archives opened within another archive.
    • Improved Add and Delete availability based on archive permissions.
    • Preserved the correct archive-reading engine for reliable extraction after settings changes.
  • New Features

    • Archive format settings identify engines that can edit archives with a pencil icon.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for nested archives, engine selection, editing restrictions, and save/reopen behavior.

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The change centralizes archive edit checks, blocks edits inside opened nested archives, and pins the engines that read archives. Settings now identify editable engines, and tests cover engine persistence and nested-archive behavior.

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Archive editing and engine persistence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Engine capability and archive-state rules
Modules/Sources/Core/Formats/Catalog.swift, Modules/Sources/Core/ArchiveState.swift, Modules/Sources/Core/Engine/AutomaticEngineSelector.swift
ArchiveState derives editability from the engine that read the archive, preserves engine pins, and exposes unified add and remove checks. Nested archive contents cannot be edited through the outer archive.
Archive editing UI validation
MacPacker/Features/ArchiveContentViewer/*
Toolbar buttons, drop-zone visibility, context-menu actions, and Delete validation use canAddHere and canRemove(_:).
Engine editing indicators
MacPacker/Features/Settings/FormatSettingsView.swift, MacPacker/Localizable.xcstrings
Format settings derive editable engines from catalog capabilities and display a pencil indicator with a localized legend.
Engine and nested-archive regression coverage
Modules/Tests/CoreTests/CoverageGapTests.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/ZipWriteTests.swift, Config/products/macpacker.json
Tests cover read-only engines, engine retention, nested-archive restrictions, and extraction behavior. The version 1.0.0 changelog records issue 267.
UI drag test compatibility
MacPackerUITests/MacPackerUITests.swift
UI tests use click-based drag gestures and pin drop-window tests to ZIP format.

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  User->>ArchiveView: add or remove archive items
  ArchiveView->>ArchiveState: check canAddHere or canRemove
  ArchiveState->>ArchiveLoader: use pinned reading engine
  ArchiveLoader-->>ArchiveState: load archive contents
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Deleting a file could silently remove a different entry:

- Inside an archive opened within the archive, a delete recorded the
  inner archive's number for the entry against the outer archive:
  deleting x.txt from inner.zip removed the outer archive's a.txt.
  Deleting the row of an opened inner archive did the same for
  everything it held, and adding a file inside one wrote it into the
  outer archive, in a folder named like the inner one.
- With XAD picked for zip in Settings, a delete handed XAD's numbers to
  7-Zip's writer. XAD numbers entries its own way, since it folds Mac
  metadata sidecars into the files they describe: deleting helper
  removed the sidecar of icon.png.

What an archive opened within the archive holds belongs to that
archive. It can no longer be deleted or added to through the outer
one, and the delete and add controls are disabled there. The inner
archive's own row still goes, alone.

An archive is editable only when the engine that opened it can write
its format, as the catalog says. For zip that is 7-Zip, the default; a
zip XAD opened is read-only. Settings marks the engines that can edit a
format with a pencil, explained in the engine info, and its engine
menus now share the column's width.

An open archive keeps the engine that opened it, through the reload
after a save too, and so does an archive opened within it: a change of
engine in Settings applies to archives opened afterwards. Switched to
7-Zip while XAD's listing was showing, extraction took XAD's numbers as
well. And a window no longer carries the editing of one archive over to
the next one it opens.
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🟡 Minor · Add canBeEdited guard to add(url:). · ArchiveState.swift:547-558

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Add canBeEdited guard to add(url:).

remove(items:) guards canBeEdited before mutating the archive. add(url:) does not. Every current caller (ArchiveContentToolbarView, ArchiveView's drop zone, openDropped) happens to gate the call through canAddHere or create() first, so the read-only invariant holds today only because of UI-level gating, not because add(url:) enforces it itself.

Add the same guard remove(items:) uses, so add(url:) defends its own invariant instead of relying only on callers. This also keeps the archive's own edit contract consistent with the PR's stated goal: "Editing is allowed only when the selected archive engine supports writing its format."

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 public func add(url: URL) {
     guard !isSaving else {
         log.notice("Ignoring add — a save is in progress", context: ["file": url.lastPathComponent])
         return
     }
+    guard canBeEdited else {
+        log.notice("Ignoring add — the archive is read-only", context: ["file": url.lastPathComponent])
+        return
+    }
     guard let selectedItem else { return }

As per path instructions, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/** bug fixes should start with a failing test — add a test mirroring aZipXADOpenedCannotBeChanged but for add(url:) on a read-only archive.

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In `@Modules/Sources/Core/ArchiveState.swift` around lines 547 - 558, Update
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existing protection in remove(items:); log the read-only rejection and return
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Skipping the canBeEdited guard on add(url:). An addition carries no entry numbers, so it can't hit another entry even in a read-only archive; remove(items:) has the guard because removals do. The window-level tests for #253 and #247 also add to 7z archives through Core on purpose, to exercise the writer, and 7z isn't editable yet (#265). The guard can come with #265.

SwiftUI's menu picker keeps the width of its longest engine whatever frame
it is given, so the rows did not line up. The engine menu is now AppKit's
popup, which takes the column's width.
The three UI tests that drag a file from Finder failed on macOS 27 without
the drag ever happening. XCTest plays press(forDuration:thenDragTo:) back
as a touch gesture there ("Event is touch-exclusive"): testmanagerd waited
out its five-second playback and the pointer never moved. They use
click(forDuration:thenDragTo:) now, a mouse drag.

The two drop-window tests also expected a zip, while Quick Compress opens
on the format it was last used with, 7z on this Mac. They pass
-dropWindowFormat zip.

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try "dropped".write(to: dir.appendingPathComponent("dropped.txt"), atomically: true, encoding: .utf8)

let app = launchApp(arguments: ["-DropWindow", "1"])
// zip, whatever format Quick Compress was last used with on this Mac

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Update the stale format comment.

The test now passes -dropWindowFormat zip, so it no longer depends on the previously selected Quick Compress format. Update the comment to describe the pinned ZIP format.

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A menu picker takes the width of its widest entry, so each row's menu was
as wide as its own longest engine. Every entry now has the width of the
longest engine name at the table's small size, with room for the pencil,
computed from the names so a longer one cannot be cut off. That lines the
menus up without the AppKit popup, which goes again.
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