• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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    1 year ago

    WinRar decompresses directly to destination. All other I have tried does it to like c:/tmp (can probably change that though) then copy it over, which is impractical or even impossible with really large files.

    That’s about it though IMO.

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      1 year ago

      You can decompress directly to the destination with 7zip as well. You just need to use the “extract” button instead of doing a drag and drop.

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        1 year ago

        This is the right answer! Since I never used drag and drop I wasn’t ever aware that this was an issue.

        According to the FAQ:

        Why does drag-and-drop archive extraction from 7-Zip to Explorer use temp files?

        7-Zip doesn’t know folder path of drop target. Only Windows Explorer knows exact drop target. And Windows Explorer needs files (drag >source) as decompressed files on disk. So 7-Zip extracts files from archive to temp folder and then 7-Zip notifies Windows Explorer about >paths of these temp files. Then Windows Explorer copies these files to drop target folder.

        To avoid temp file usage, you can use Extract command of 7-Zip or drag-and-drop from 7-Zip to 7-Zip.

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        1 year ago

        Cool thanks for the info, I did it by script but then trere is maybe some option I didn’t find…

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      1 year ago

      You sure about that? I’ve decompressed huge files, some time ago, using a 3.5” HDD and if it were like that, it would take much longer than needed because of that overlay you talk about.

      And it took the same time as WinRar (͡•_ ͡• )

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        1 year ago

        Downvote all you want, but you can configure WinRAR to decompress directly to source.

        I had TB files and just no space to have both a copy and the result, IIRC the speed was also obviously better without copying.

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          1 year ago

          I didn’t downvoted your post, I just made a genuine question, since I’ve never noticed that. I’m just sceptic on what you mentioned. Whenever I have some free time, I’ll try to do a deep test on that one!

          Edit: No need to do a test, since I never use drag n drop (like mentioned on another comment), my test would always show the same outcome as WinRAR.