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Support and Feedback / Re: Zip performance

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 25, 2024, 20:48:19 »

Not able to recreate that.
But if the file you add already exist and you are overwriting (removing and adding), then it must rebuild the entire zip.
Also if the zip is missing its content catalogue at the end of the file (depending on what is created it from the beginning). the entire file need to be parsed instead of just jump to end and add it

However MC is not optimized to update zip is fastest way, normally it is not a problem but if you got 200.000+ items in the root of the zip i can cause it to be slow. Zip is handled like a virtual filesytem, you can navigate into the zip as a volume.
Because of this the zip archive must load the entire zip before doing anything to it. and for each file you add it must check so the file do not already exists. and so on.

However there are some optimization added in the coming version. (14.x) It will load a large zip faster.. but it will still be slow.. The way zip is build, having 200k+ items in a zip is not optimal. I think 7Zip handles large number of files better.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy to Zip bug?

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 25, 2024, 20:42:40 »

Not able to recreate your issue,
To add files to an existing zip you can browse into the zip in the target panel and then select the files to copy into the zip in the source panel

Or as you are doing..
edit the "copy files to..." field,  to like "D:\MyFolder\MyZip.zip\"  You must have the \ after the "zip" else it think you want to copy the file into that name, and not into a zip

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Support and Feedback / Zip performance

« Last post by veds on March 25, 2024, 19:29:42 »

When I want to add a few small files to an existing zip which contains a lot of small files (+200.000) a "copy to" dialog box appears but nothing seems to happen.
I waited 30 minutes and the copy process wasn't yet started.

MC v13.5 (x64) on windows 10

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Support and Feedback / Copy to zip: unknown error 87

« Last post by veds on March 25, 2024, 19:06:19 »

I select some files press F5 and enter in the dialog box the path to an existing zip file.
Exceptionally I get a dialog box with the error message "unknown error 87".
If I try to add those files to the same zip file with another tool I get no error message.

What could be the reason for the "unknown error 87"?

MC (x64) v13.5 on windows 10

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Support and Feedback / Copy to Zip bug?

« Last post by veds on March 25, 2024, 18:46:17 »

Select some files and press F5.
Enter in the "Copy files to.." edit box the filepath of a zip file and press enter (the selected files don't exists in the archive).
In several occasions I get a dialogbox with the question whether I want to overwrite the target file (the size is 0 bytes).

If I first open and close the zip file with multicommander and then execute the same steps multicommander adds the files to the archive.

MC v13.5 (x64) on windows 10

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Support and Feedback / Re: Format big USB as FAT32?

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 25, 2024, 10:02:35 »

Not currently. But if an external tool exists you can add a button for it easy in MC. Just drag it to the quick launch bar

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Support and Feedback / Format big USB as FAT32?

« Last post by Suncatcher on March 25, 2024, 03:36:34 »

Any plugin to format big USB sticks/memory cards as FAT32 to overcome Windows limitation?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy Window issues

« Last post by homeboy on March 22, 2024, 07:51:21 »

Hello,
Just a few more informations:
- I experienced an error when moving the copy dialog right away after launching the copy/move and just before getting the confirmation dialog (some kind of unhandled exception)
- I also experienced an error while moving files from a complete Windows profile (I think it was the error 59) from a network share to an external USB disk. It might be some special files. I had to restart 2 or 3 times the move operation to move all the files but I cannot say if the error lost some of the files
Thanks again, I hope this can help on improving the copy part of this product

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Support and Feedback / Re: Hotkeys Not Triggering Often - Works For Short Periods Only !

« Last post by AlanJB on March 17, 2024, 11:30:41 »

Hi Mathias - some feedback for you.

Build 2983 seems to have fixed the race condition causing custom key bindings to be lost.  Tested for nearly two months now.

Thanks.

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Support and Feedback / Issue with search in MultiDataViewer

« Last post by Jungle on March 14, 2024, 14:12:21 »

I have a txt-file with mixed cyrillic/english text in ANSI encoding. In MDV if I search for cyrillic word, nothing is found. Case dosen't matter. I basically copy some cyrillic text, paste it in the Find field, press Enter and get "No more found". Search for english text works OK.

If I open this file in Windows Notepad, search for cyrillic text works fine. If in Notepad I save this file as UTF-8 or UTF-16, then in MultiDataViewer search works, but only if case matches, so e.g. search for "станислав" can't find "Станислав" even with disabled [Match case] option.