One other side of the bug: the temp file is not created in same location as destination. This makes the extraction of a 2TB file impossible when main OS is installed on a small 256GB SSD, even through the destination is a 8TB RAID array. It's a shame that such design bugs exists when those issues were solved decades ago by many other graphical archivers.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241784 Title: File roller creates tmp file on source drive regardless of where the file destination is Status in file-roller package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Package version 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: AMD64 I had a large file-set to roll up into a zip file (a Clonezilla image: A folder containing 44 files totalling 47GB on a USB drive). I call this "Drive A". I connected a second drive ("Drive B") to the machine with the intent that I would read the data from Drive A and write the zip file to Drive B in order to avoid head-thrashing on Drive A and maximise throughput. I right clicked on the folder on Drive A and clicked "Compress..." I used the destination pulldown to indicate I wanted the zip file to be created on Drive B. I started the compression operation. File-roller created the .zip.tmp file on Drive A in the same folder as the object being compressed instead of on Drive B. This caused the drive head-thrashing I'd been trying to avoid. When the operation was complete, this file was moved to Drive B. This whole process obviously took longer than it would have taken to do the compression just on Drive A. I consider this behaviour sub-optimal. Please will you modify File-roller's behaviour to create it tmp file on the destination drive? Thank you. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/1241784/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp