diff -Naur xarchiver-0.5.2.orig/src/tar.c xarchiver-0.5.2/src/tar.c
--- xarchiver-0.5.2.orig/src/tar.c	2012-01-12 13:28:54.000000000 +0100
+++ xarchiver-0.5.2/src/tar.c	2012-01-23 19:16:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
 								archive->overwrite ? " --overwrite" : " --keep-old-files",
 						#endif
 								archive->tar_touch ? " --touch" : "",
-								" -C ",archive->extraction_path," ",names->str,NULL);
+								" -C \"",archive->extraction_path,"\" ",names->str,NULL);
 		}
 		else
 		{
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@
 								archive->overwrite ? " --overwrite" : " --keep-old-files",
 						#endif
 								archive->tar_touch ? " --touch" : "",
-								" -C ",archive->extraction_path," ",names->str,NULL);
+								" -C \"",archive->extraction_path,"\" ",names->str,NULL);
 		}
 		else
 		{
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
 								archive->overwrite ? " --overwrite" : " --keep-old-files",
 						#endif
 								archive->tar_touch ? " --touch" : "",
-								" -C ",archive->extraction_path," ",names->str,NULL);
+								" -C \"",archive->extraction_path,"\" ",names->str,NULL);
 		}
 		else
 		{
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@
 								archive->overwrite ? " --overwrite" : " --keep-old-files",
 						#endif
 								archive->tar_touch ? " --touch" : "",
-								" -C ",archive->extraction_path," ",names->str,NULL);
+								" -C \"",archive->extraction_path,"\" ",names->str,NULL);
 		}
 		else
 		{