http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=22724
In it, Christian posted the following:
I can see why Christian changed the behavior from 7.0x, but my suggestion is to take this idea farther. My idea is that if the user double-clicks or hits Alt-F9 on either all the parts of an archive or any part other than the first part TC should behave as though the user performed the action on the first part of the archive.ghisler(Author) wrote:This is actually not a bug, but a feature change in TC 7.5. Explanation:
In Total Commander 7.0x, each part of a multi-volume RAR could be unpacked separately by entering that part and copying the files from it. TC 7.5 now supports the unpacking of entire multi-volume RAR archives.
The problem is that many users select ALL parts and then choose Files - Unpack. If TC would try to unpack the file for each part, it would try to unpack the same files again and again. Therefore TC 7.5 now unpacks the archive only when you try to unpack the .rar file, not the other parts.
Example #1: If the user double-clicks on foo.part25.rar then TC should act as though the user double-clicked on foo.part01.rar and display all the files in the archive.
Example #2: If the user hits Alt-F9 on bar.r33 then TC should act as though the usre hit Alt-F9 on bar.rar and unarchive the files accordingly.
In short, trying to open or extract any multi-part archive by highlighting anything other than the first file in the set TC will internally translate that to perform the action on the first file automatically.
I think if this were implemented it would stop the same files from being archived over and over again like Christian originally wanted, address the wish of the person who started the thread referenced above, and would make things easier for the users when they are trying to work with a multi-part archive in a directory with lots of files and the file panel is sorted by a column other than Name.
If this breaks anyone's way of doing things it could be made an .ini optinon, but I think it'd really increase the ease of use of working with multi-part archives.
