TC doesn't use SetEndOfFile when extracting using plugins

[kapela86]

I didn't test if this applies to every wcx plugin, but when extracting iso using http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/iso64.html SetEndOfFile isn't used so this leads to fragmented files. Extracting from zip/rar/7z is ok. I checked with Process Monitor to be sure. Using TC 8.51a x64

[Horst.Epp]

This is no TC bug, so report it to the plugin author.

Use the Total7zip plugin instead.

[kapela86]

Same thing with Total7zip. I think it's bug in TC, or Total7zip also doesn't use SetEndOfFile

[MVV]

TC doesn't deal with archives on file level, plugins do this.

But I don't understand where do you want to call SetEndOfFile? Before packing? What if archive size is unknown at that time?

[kapela86]

I don't understand where do you want to call SetEndOfFile?

When unpacking file. It's completely useless when packing file because we don't know final size
Here's something I found that could shed some light on this http://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/feature-requests/981/

[MVV]

Anyway, TC only passes destination path to packer plugin and plugin creates and writes file, so reserving space for files is up to plugin.

BTW if you're using Total7zip plugin, you can use it for ISO files too, and it uses 7-Zip libraries so should reserve space correctly.

[kapela86]

I wrote earlier that Total7zip doesn't use SetEndOfFile. 7-Zip also doesn't use it Tested them with Process Monitor so I'm sure. You can see it yourself, just create filter to include "Operation is SetEndOfFileInformationFile" and start unpacking.

[MVV]

According to your link there was a request to add ths feature to 7-Zip, so it will be available via Total7zip - that's what I mean. However it is a quite old request... so 7-Zip programmers didn't realize it too.