PeaZip should be the goto over 7-zip for ease of use, but I went back to 7-zip because the UI takes forever to open with PeaZip on Windows.
PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
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Re: PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
#12I've been using PeaZip for years. Once I discovered that it didn't extract files to a temporary folder, then copy files to the destination from there (resulting in two needless file transfers), I haven't looked back.
Why would that be better? I can't tell if you're saying PeaZip does or doesn't do that.
Re: PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
#13I've been using PeaZip for years. Once I discovered that it didn't extract files to a temporary folder, then copy files to the destination from there (resulting in two needless file transfers), I haven't looked back.
Why would that be better? I can't tell if you're saying PeaZip does or doesn't do that.
> Once I discovered that it didn't extract files to a temporary folder, then copy files to the destination from there (resulting in two needless file transfers)
I believe they're saying a file archiver should _not_ do this, and that PeaZIP does _not_ do this.
> I haven't looked back.
I believe this means that they're happy with PeaZIP.
Re: PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would that be better? I can't tell if you're saying PeaZip does or doesn't do that.
> Once I discovered that it didn't extract files to a temporary folder, then copy files to the destination from there (resulting in two needless file transfers) I believe they're saying a file archiver should _not_ do this, and that PeaZIP does _not_ do this. > I haven't looked back. I believe this means that they're happy with PeaZIP.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant.
Re: PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
#15PeaZip should be the goto over 7-zip for ease of use, but I went back to 7-zip because the UI takes forever to open with PeaZip on Windows.
In addition, something is off with drag-and-drop extraction. AFAIR, you can't make the desktop visible first by dragging to the right edge of the taskbar. Maybe they fixed it, but in the meantime I got used to 7-Zip FM.
Re: PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
#16I've been using PeaZip for years. Once I discovered that it didn't extract files to a temporary folder, then copy files to the destination from there (resulting in two needless file transfers), I haven't looked back.
I don't know why any program would copy files, let alone twice, to un-archive them, but the usual extract-then-mv pattern is an important feature, usually well-worth the cost of the extra syscall: if the extraction is interrupted, it avoids leaving incomplete files that are indistinguishable from correctly-extracted files. I would consider extracting in place by default a design flaw.
Re: PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
#17Is this a new release? PeaZip has been available for forever....
Re: PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
#18I don't know why everyone recommends 7zip when this app is 100x better.
Re: PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
#19Peazip is great. I love that there's a portable version--it has come in handy before when I didn't have installation permissions. At the time (not sure if it's still the case now), WinRAR or 7zip didn't seem to have portable versions listed on their homepages and the other sites proclaiming that there are looked shady.
Re: PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
#20Is this a new release? PeaZip has been available for forever....
According to WikiPedia [1] the most recent “stable” release is from 9 days ago.
I believe this was posted because user @peter_d_sherman is the 10,000 of the day [2].