diff -rudp thunar-archive-plugin-0.3.1.orig/thunar-archive-plugin/tap-backend.c thunar-archive-plugin-0.3.1/thunar-archive-plugin/tap-backend.c
--- thunar-archive-plugin-0.3.1.orig/thunar-archive-plugin/tap-backend.c	2014-02-21 20:37:51.000000000 -0800
+++ thunar-archive-plugin-0.3.1/thunar-archive-plugin/tap-backend.c	2014-02-21 22:54:36.000000000 -0800
@@ -370,17 +370,51 @@ tap_backend_mime_wrapper (GAppInfo *mime
   filename = g_strdup_printf (LIBEXECDIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "thunar-archive-plugin" G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "%s.tap", base_name);
 
   /* check if the wrapper script exists */
-  if (!g_file_test (filename, G_FILE_TEST_IS_EXECUTABLE))
+  if (g_file_test (filename, G_FILE_TEST_IS_EXECUTABLE))
     {
-      /* no wrapper then */
+      g_free (base_name);
+      return filename;
+    }
+
+  /* check if the .tap can be found by treating this as a thunar-vfs custom desktop file */
+  dot = strstr (base_name, "-usercreated");
+  if (G_UNLIKELY (dot != NULL))
+    {
+      *dot = '\0';
       g_free (filename);
-      filename = NULL;
+      filename = g_strdup_printf (LIBEXECDIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "thunar-archive-plugin" G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "%s.tap", base_name);
+
+      if (g_file_test (filename, G_FILE_TEST_IS_EXECUTABLE))
+        {
+          g_free (base_name);
+          return filename;
+        }
+
+      *dot = '-';
     }
 
-  /* cleanup */
+  /* check if the .tap can be found by treating this as a gio custom desktop file */
+  if (G_UNLIKELY (!strncmp (base_name, "userapp-", 8)))
+    {
+      dot = strchr (base_name + 8, '-');
+      if (G_LIKELY (dot != NULL))
+        {
+          *dot = '\0';
+          g_free (filename);
+          filename = g_strdup_printf (LIBEXECDIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "thunar-archive-plugin" G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "%s.tap", base_name + 8);
+
+          if (g_file_test (filename, G_FILE_TEST_IS_EXECUTABLE))
+            {
+              g_free (base_name);
+              return filename;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    
   g_free (base_name);
+  g_free (filename);
 
-  return filename;
+  return NULL;
 }