Extracting archives to queue

[gligoran]

Hi!

I've been a fan and a user of Total Commander for a very long time. I almost never user Windows Explorer since Win98.

As I'm moving a lot of data between my disks I love the Queue feature so I can move one thing at a time and not bring my computer to a stand still trying to move everything simultaneously. Recently I saw you added the option to extract archives in the background. That's great, but it would be even better if there's an option to queue up files for extracting.

Thanks, and keep up the great great work!

[ghisler(Author)]

This is currently not possible because queue entries can hold only one line at a time. Unpacking would require a list of files to be unpacked stored somehow within one item of the queue.

[gligoran]

What about a queue entry like:

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unpack: c:\somearchive.rar -> d:\somefolder

This would extract the whole contents of archive somearchive.rar into the folder somefolder.

[ZoSTeR]

Works with WinRar: link

[gligoran]

Will try this. Thanks.

[nsp]

This is currently not possible because queue entries can hold only one line at a time. Unpacking would require a list of files to be unpacked stored somehow within one item of the queue.

First Thanks for having a robust queue mechanism that we can edit manually (I often add to queue for later use using dedicated button)!
About packer, you can limit at the beginning the extraction/pack of a full path to a dedicated folder with a sheme like :

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unpack: c:\Source\myfile.zip\\folder\*.txt z:\target   
pack:c:\source\*.* z:\target\myzip.zip\\inside

After you also can create a multi-line packer/unpacker command like

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unpack_spec: sourceFile target folder options
unpack_info: source file [target]
unpack_exec:

This allows to have a queue where all the infos sits on the file, you can edit/process each line to bufferize the un/pack and stop at the exec for showing info during pack/unpack process......

[bestia]

I think Queue is one of the most powerfull functions in TotalCmd. It deserves to be even more powerfull. I would like to queue everything and always (Copy, Move, Archive, Ftp,...). It is just so usefull.
For example instead of the button "Background" when I am already copying I would rather have "Queue". This is what I usually want.