Vista bug - edit inside a zip file

[nirmelamoud]

On my vista, when I edit a file (inside a zip) , Ifinish editing, close the editor,
I get the dialog asking me the file has change,,,,,
I click ok, I get error "function not supported"
it does not happen on XP (many years now)

[ghisler(Author)]

This happens when you edit a file inside a zip which cannot be changed, e.g. because it has unknown headers, or is a multi-volume zip. TC doesn't modify such archives. The edited file should still be in the TEMP dir.

[nirmelamoud]

Thanks forthe fast response,
can I do something on the zipped file level to fix it ?
BTW I zipped it with total commander

the same zip file is working on xp (I can edit the internal files)

thanks

[karlchen]

Hi, nirmelamoud

On my vista, when I edit a file (inside a zip) , Ifinish editing, close the editor,
I get the dialog asking me the file has change,,,,,
I click ok, I get error "function not supported"
it does not happen on XP (many years now)

I have just tried it it:
+ created a ZIP file using T.C. and added 3 TXT files
+ edited 1 of the TXT files and closed the editor (saved the changes)
+ consented to update the ZIP file
+ the modified TXT file was updated inside the ZIP archive correctly.

Conclusion:
The problem which you experience is hardly caused by a bug, neither by a T.C. bug, nor by a Vista bug.
Perhaps you just put the ZIP archive in a folder where your current user account has not got write permissions?!

Kind regards,
Karl

[nirmelamoud]

Hi, nirmelamoud

Conclusion:
The problem which you experience is hardly caused by a bug, neither by a T.C. bug, nor by a Vista bug.
Perhaps you just put the ZIP archive in a folder where your current user account has not got write permissions?!

Kind regards,
Karl

nice conclusion but a wrong one, it is probbaly some configuration problem, I can add files to that zip , also delete files from it, or view files in it, just the edit feature is not working,
so your example of permission it wrong, sorry for not giving all the details.
anyone else any idea ?
(BTW it happen for every zip , on every folder ...)

[CoolWater]

Is your system temp. dir writable for TC? TC extracts the file to the temp. dir and adds it again to the archive when you finished editing. Sounds like a permission problem.

HTH

[nirmelamoud]

Is your system temp. dir writable for TC? TC extracts the file to the temp. dir and adds it again to the archive when you finished editing. Sounds like a permission problem.

HTH

thanks for the idea's

yes my temp is writeable, when I go to the temp folder, I see the edited file (the one I edited inside the zip) for some reason trying to copy it back fail, I can manually get and edit that file from total commander,and also move / copy it into the zip file

[ghisler(Author)]

Maybe WCMZIP32.DLL is missing? It's needed for packing (but not for unpacking, that's done internally).

This can also happen when you try to create a shortcut to Totalcmd.exe somewhere (e.g. on the desktop) but instead copy the file there by mistake. When you then run that copied program, it cannot find all its supporting files...

[nirmelamoud]

Maybe WCMZIP32.DLL is missing? It's needed for packing (but not for unpacking, that's done internally).

This can also happen when you try to create a shortcut to Totalcmd.exe somewhere (e.g. on the desktop) but instead copy the file there by mistake. When you then run that copied program, it cannot find all its supporting files...

thanks for the reply, but no.
WCMZIP32.dll is in the total commander folder
and I use a shortcut, just to be sure I browsed to the folder and run it directly from its folder, and it still have the same affect.

[ghisler(Author)]

Have you tried to add some other file to the zip (with F5)? does this work, or do you get the same error?

[nirmelamoud]

Have you tried to add some other file to the zip (with F5)? does this work, or do you get the same error?

YES thats what I do, I copy out of the zip, edit and copy back

[nirmelamoud]

Have you tried to add some other file to the zip (with F5)? does this work, or do you get the same error?

YES thats what I do, I copy out of the zip, edit and copy back

Any other idea's logs I can look at ?

thanks

[ghisler(Author)]

No, unfortunately I don't currently see any other reasons for the problem.

[nirmelamoud]

No, unfortunately I don't currently see any other reasons for the problem.

can you send me a debug version, or how to turn on logs ?

[ghisler(Author)]

You can try to use process monitor from www.sysinternals.com to find out what goes wrong, e.g. what file operations fail.