# Appimage administration

**URL:** <https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-administration/3001>\
**Category:** Using AppImages\
**Created:** [June 16, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-administration/3001 "2023-06-16T07:27:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![MakerFC](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.appimage.org/makerfc/32/842_2.png) [@MakerFC](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/MakerFC)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-administration/3001/1 "2023-06-16T07:27:34Z")

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Hi there,

My OS is linux and I want to extract one single file in an existing AppImage, replace it and reassemble the changed AppImage. I downloaded latest release dated Dec 31, 2020 from [Releases · AppImage/AppImageKit · GitHub](https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/)

Following instructions at AppImage user guide, the containing files of the relevant AppImage could be perfectly listed in terminal with the command

`$ ./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage --list ./NAME_OF_FILE.AppImage`

Then I’ve tried to extract the AppImage with

‘$ ./appimagetool-x86\_64.AppImage --appimage-extract ./NAME\_OF\_FILE.AppImage’

Result is a new folder _squashfs-root_ is created.  
But folder is empty no files were extracted. No error message returned. ☹

What went wrong? Is this a bug?

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**Author:** ![probono](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.appimage.org/probono/32/81_2.png) [@probono](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/probono)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-administration/3001/2 "2023-06-18T18:28:07Z")

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Possibly a bug, yes.

Which file exactly do you want to extract from `appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage`?

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**Author:** ![MakerFC](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.appimage.org/makerfc/32/842_2.png) [@MakerFC](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/MakerFC)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-administration/3001/3 "2023-06-18T19:12:57Z")

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I have tried to extract a FC AppImage.

Please follow this link:

[https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bundle/releases/download/weekly-builds/FreeCAD\_weekly-builds-33345-2023-06-18-conda-Linux-x86\_64-py310.AppImage](https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bundle/releases/download/weekly-builds/FreeCAD_weekly-builds-33345-2023-06-18-conda-Linux-x86_64-py310.AppImage)

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**Author:** ![probono](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.appimage.org/probono/32/81_2.png) [@probono](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/probono)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-administration/3001/4 "2023-07-08T17:14:35Z")

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Does it work when you leave away the `.` in `./`? Or leave away the whole `./`?