TC hangs on F3 from the inside of big archives

[MaxX]

Do to reproduce:
1. Pack any big solid archive. Let it be 10GB 7z for example.
2. Then go inside, find the last file (the last in archive pack order!) and F3 on it.
3. As it is expected, TC reads archive to find that file, BUT it hangs until reading is finished. Then Lister is shown.

There is no "Wait..." or "Reading..." message or anything like that. TC just looks hanged. And no cancel available.

Could you add some "Wait..." or "Reading..." splash with "Cancel" button for operations longer than 5 sec? Just something similar to "Connecting..." when accessing slow disk or network shares.

[ghisler(Author)]

Strange, I get an unpack progress dialog there. I didn't try with a large archive yet, though, so I don't know whether the cancel button works or not.

Do you get an unpack progress dialog?

[MaxX]

Yes. But there's no movement on progress bar.
Reproduceable on 7z archives (big files inside) with 7zip.wcx 0.766.
It looks like there's shown only fully read files, but not real bytes processed.

[Horst.Epp]

Yes. But there's no movement on progress bar.
Reproduceable on 7z archives (big files inside) with 7zip.wcx 0.766.
It looks like there's shown only fully read files, but not real bytes processed.

Try the Total7zip plugin.
Its much better and you can always use actual 7zip versions and features.

[ghisler(Author)]

Reproduceable on 7z archives (big files inside) with 7zip.wcx 0.766.

Could you try with disabled 7zip.wcx (using internal unpacking dll)?

Yes. But there's no movement on progress bar.

This happens because of the solid archive: The progress bar only shows the progress of the currently unpacked file. But since you picked the last file in a solid archive, all the files before that file need to be unpacked too so the last one can be unpacked. If the plugin doesn't report any progress, then there is no way to abort the operation.

[MaxX]

2Horst.Epp
Thanks, but no. Total7zip plugin is very slow, because it unpacks all files to %temp% in groups until needed file is read. This works much slower than any another 7z plugins.

2ghisler(Author)
I understand. Is it possible to prevent TC from hang when TC is waiting for plugin's response?
For example, TC could just refresh window with no changes every 5 or 10 sec to have ability to cancel unpacking.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately the unpack function is called from a foreground thread, so the only way to cancel unpacking would be when the plugin calls back to the progress function (which it apparently doesn't do while skipping files). You can try to contact the plugin developer about it.

[dindog]

Thanks, but no. Total7zip plugin is very slow, because it unpacks all files to %temp% in groups until needed file is read. This works much slower than any another 7z plugins.

I believe that is exactly what "solid archive" mean, and I don't think any 7z plugin can do anything about it, probably just when you was testing with the file with total7zip IS at the end. Or I am having big wrong knowledge about solid... correct me if I do get it wrong.

P.S.
I think total7zip is superb to other 7z plugins too. Multiarc is good too, it uses 7z.exe, which enable users using -x for exclude list and some other parameter is not support yet in 7zG, but multiarc can handle unicode.

[MaxX]

2dindog
7zip.wcx is the best for 7z files, no speed loss, no unwanted files in %temp% folder.
Total7zip.wcx is goor for another formats that 7z.exe supports.
Just use both of them with separated extensions, e.g. 7z & 7zip.

[ghisler(Author)]

I'm moving this to "will not be changed" because only the plugin author could change it.