Behavior change request.

[jjarman]

If I extract a file from powerarchiver to a folder, power archiver extracts the file to a temp directory, then copies the file to the location, then deletes the temp copy. When you are working with large files this presents a huge unessary slowdown and a lot of wasted disc space.

WinRAR handles this better by extracting to a temp directory, then MOVING the file to the correct location instead of copying it. In WindowsXP this is just a change in the File Allocation Table or NTFS equivilant, saying that the file is now located in X directory, which is very fast, no need to create 2 copies of the file then delete one of them.

If you are extracting a 4gb file you only need 4gb of space, not 8gb like currently required by powerarchiver for the same operation.

Make sense?

[manuangi]

guess it does.

but let’s hear from dev’s…

[spwolf]

I believe that if you use “write directly into zip” option, you can make it write directly into zip file, w/o using temp which then speeds everything up.

If you want to make that pernament setting, you can set it up at Options>Config>Misc, and it should work with all formats!

Does that work as intended?

thanks,

[jjarman]

SPWolf,

I couldn’t find the setting you mentioned, where is it and what is it called?

Thanks!

[spwolf]

It should be under Speed options> Use current folder as temp. That should work for compression only of course.

thanks,

[jjarman]

Well, that helps some, but since it doesn’t affect decompression, it isn’t really what I was asking/requesting. My intention in starting this thread was to make development aware of a very small change that would improve performance proportional to the size of the files.

Thanks.

[Acheron]

Great tip! I would like this feature as soon as possible