Total Commander

More specifically - the option to rename and auto-rename the unpacked file.
In my work I frequently need to check logs from many different archives. All logs in archives have the same file name log.txt.
I enter archive, select file log.txt, press F3 and examine file...
Then I need to check another archive (and compare with previous) - enter it, select file log.txt, press F3 and see this:
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It wood be very helpful to be able rename/auto rename existing (unpacking) file here like in all others dialogs...

It is interesteing that if you use "Compare contents" (cm_CompareFilesByContent), the two files are opened in %TEMP%\_tc and %TEMP%\_tc_ - why doesn't TC just do the same for F3 and F4?

2petermad
Just a guess: When comparing files by content, TC already knows that it will need two directories when extracting two files subsequently. It doesn't know that when a Lister window is open and another files is about to be extracted. I've been annoyed by TC's overwrite dialog when pressing F3 or F4 more than a couple of times myself...

Regards
Dalai

TC already knows that it will need two directories when extracting two files subsequently

Rather: TC already knows that it might need two directories - because it also uses two directories, when the files to compare has different names, either files in the same dir or in opposite dirs.

It is interesteing that if you use "Compare contents" (cm_CompareFilesByContent), the two files are opened in %TEMP%\_tc and %TEMP%\_tc_ - why doesn't TC just do the same for F3 and F4?

Ha, I think it's like a bug F4 will do such a thing, but F3 - not.
F4: 1 file go in _tc, 2 file go in _tc_, 3 file show dialog with overwrite options.
F3: 1 file go in _tc, 2 file show dialog with overwrite options.

But any way my suggestion is still valid - in case of opening more then 2 files.

F4: 1 file go in _tc, 2 file go in _tc_, 3 file show dialog with overwrite options.

Yes, you are right - it is only F3 that don't use two temp directories!

But any way my suggestion is still valid - in case of opening more then 2 files.

TC could maybe do the same as it does when going into nested archives (archive in archive in archive etc.) - here TC uses directories like %TEMP%\_tc0, %TEMP%\_tc01 and %TEMP%\_tc2 etc.

I think that using more temp folders could be implemented long time ago, when tabs were introduced in TC.
That's why I suspect that there are some difficulties with implementation.