Nested archive and tab switch -> TEMP dir

Post by *Hacker » 2006-10-31, 22:13 UTC

Create a nested archive, for instance a ZIP in a ZIP.
Enter the inner archive.
Switch to another tab and back.
You land in the TEMP dir.

Expected: one should get back into the inner archive.

Roman

Stitscher · Post by *Stitscher » 2006-10-31, 22:17 UTC

Confirmed.

Stitscher

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2006-10-31, 22:31 UTC

Unfortunately this is a known problem which cannot be avoided: When you switch away from an inner archive in any way, then TC will leave that archive and return to the parent. Why? If it wouldn't do this, you could end with many open tabs to such temporary archives, which would never be deleted...

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2006-10-31, 22:35 UTC

2ghisler(Author)
What about showing the directory in the archive which contains the internal zip file and place the cursor on this file?

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2006-10-31, 23:33 UTC

Lefteous wrote:2ghisler(Author)
What about showing the directory in the archive which contains the internal zip file and place the cursor on this file?

Nice. At least this wouldn't be so bad...

Post by *petermad » 2006-11-01, 02:24 UTC

What about showing the directory in the archive which contains the internal zip file and place the cursor on this file?

Support++

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2006-11-01, 10:35 UTC

I can try that, but I'm not sure whether it's possible or not.

Post by *petermad » 2006-11-24, 21:52 UTC

Fixed in TC7pb2

TC now returns to the outer archive as suggested by Lefteous - only the cursor isn't placed at the inner archive.

Post by *Hacker » 2006-12-01, 23:35 UTC

Could it be placed on the inner archive?

Roman

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2006-12-03, 16:29 UTC

I will try that.

Post by *petermad » 2007-01-12, 22:58 UTC

Fixed in TC7pb3 - TC now puts the cursor on the inner archive.

Post by *Hacker » 2007-01-13, 00:08 UTC

Ah, indeed.

Thanks
Roman

karlchen · Post by *karlchen » 2007-01-13, 00:25 UTC

petermad wrote:Fixed in TC7pb3 - TC now puts the cursor on the inner archive.

Hi,

this seems to be true only if no packer plugin is involved.

Right hand panel - 2nd Tab:

Folder: C:\.....\Win_Utils
[face=courier]File: Win2003_rktools.exe
....... |___rktools.msi
. ......... |___Cabs.winrk.cab[/face]
(So now I'm in the CAB file)

Switching between the righthand and the lefthand panels will do no harm, as long as in the righthand panel the 2nd tab is the active tab. I will return to inside the cab file.

Once I switch from the 2nd tab to the 1st tab and back to the 2nd tab, I will be inside Win2003_rktools.exe , so 2 levels higher than before.

Plugin involved: MSI.WCX

(Checking %TEMP%\_TC and %TEMP%\_TC_ I can see the temporary files have been removed when the 2nd tab changed to the inactive state.)

[Added]
Nope, unrelated to Plugins very likely:
Reproduced with a ZIP inside a ZIP:
TC_OUTER.ZIP => TSCMD.ZIP
If I enter TSCMD.ZIP and switch to a different tab inside the same panel, then return, I am back inside TC_OUTER.ZIP, but not in the inner archive TSCMD.ZIP.

Any new INI-setting I may have missed about keeping tempfiles longer?
[/Added]

Karl

Post by *petermad » 2007-01-13, 00:40 UTC

I will be inside Win2003_rktools.exe , so 2 levels higher than before.

Yes, but isn't the cursor placed on rktools.msi inside the Win2003_rktools.exe file?

karlchen · Post by *karlchen » 2007-01-13, 11:56 UTC

petermad wrote:
I will be inside Win2003_rktools.exe , so 2 levels higher than before.
Yes, but isn't the cursor placed on rktools.msi inside the Win2003_rktools.exe file?

Correct, it is.

Hm, so from my point of view half of the missing feature has been added:

We are no longer thrown into the %temp% folder, but returned to our nested archive and the cursor is placed on the nested archive which we had already entered.

So any chance we will get the whole piece of cake some day? I.e. I will stay where I was: inside Cabs.winrk.cab????
(until I deliberately close the tab or deliberately move to some other location inside the tab)

Karl