Total Commander

It's unbelievably confusing when a user "enters into" a part of multipart rar archive and finds there only few of the files belonging to that particular part of the archive. I know it has its logic and all BUT it is nevertheless very unpractical. WinRAR does that ok, when you select a part of the archive and "enter into" the archive, the whole list of files of the archive displays (not just of the particular part).

I wish when a user enters a part of a multipart archive, all files should display there, from all parts in that particular directory. Christian can even visually mark the files that belong to that particular part (right now they are the ONLY VISIBLE files) and those that don't.

I need this, I sometimes ERASE FILES that contain more files than in just one part and I didn't noticed that.

When I implemented multi-part archives, floppy disks where common and harddisks were small (64 Megabyte!), so the parts were usually not all on the same disk...

2ghisler(Author)
I think the question is not where the files are stored but where is the list of all files stored? In the first archive or in each part. This may be archive-specfic.

For ZIP archives, the list is stored in the last part - that's why TC requests the last disk (any maybe also the second-last) for ZIP archives. Other archives like RAR store the names scattered across all files, so it would be very inconvenient to request all disks just to see the file list. Therefore TC supports either the unpacking of the files starting in that part, or the unpacking of all files via Files - Unpack specific files.

ghisler(Author) wrote:so it would be very inconvenient to request all disks just to see the file list

It is not necessary to request disks. TC could just show files from those parts of the archive which are present.