Sorry, not a bug: zipping to the same panel

The behaviour described in the bug report is either by design, or would be far too complex/time-consuming to be changed

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duduedri96
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Sorry, not a bug: zipping to the same panel

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Edit: Sorry, this isn't a bug, it was my mistake.

How to reproduce:
Let's say that you have the folder C:\Test with a.txt and b.txt inside it.
Select both a.txt and b.txt, hold Ctrl and click on Pack (on the buttons bar. If you have configured a shortcut for packing to the same panel, it produces the bug as well), and select "Move to archive" then click OK.
Select the newly created archive (it should be the only file left in C:\Test, since we moved a.txt and b.txt to this archive), and then again, hold Ctrl, click on Pack on the button bar and select "Move to archive".
Entering to this archive gives us three files inside instead of the one archive we just compressed - those are the archive, a.txt and b.txt - and that's unexpected.

Tested on Total Commander 8.51a 64-bit and also on 32-bit, on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 based PC.
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Post by *Horst.Epp »

There is no error !
Of course you have 3 files now.
One is the packed archive in the packed archive
and the two others are the files from your first packing.
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Horst.Epp wrote:There is no error !
Of course you have 3 files now.
One is the packed archive in the packed archive
and the two others are the files from your first packing.
But why it's happening? I want an archive inside an archive, and the actions I done should produce this exactly.
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because you get exactly what you want:
you put a and b into c
afterwards u put a compressed c into c
if you want to avoid this
-excuse my language -turn on your brain and name the last step d and NOT c
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Post by *duduedri96 »

Sir_SiLvA wrote:because you get exactly what you want:
you put a and b into c
afterwards u put a compressed c into c
if you want to avoid this
-excuse my language -turn on your brain and name the last step d and NOT c
Got it, my mistake.
Thanks.
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