7-zip question

[212121]

each time i use 7-zip to unzip it unzips to local temp and then COPY the files to the folder i want, why??? it just wastes time...

[bledd]

press F9 in 7ip file manager and you get the 2x panels then, if you extract to a location in the file manager (instead of explorer) it'll do it without copying to temp first, i think winrar works this way too

[tain]

Some people like to make their temp/swap run as RAM disk.

[jftuga]

I would guess that one of the reasons it does this to prevent file fragmentation. When this file is being extracted it is probably fragmented, but then the copy command allocates one big chunk of contiguous disk (since it now knows the final size).

IE 6 does the same thing when downloading files.

-John