Content of archive in archive is unpacked to Temp\_tc folder

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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Content of archive in archive is unpacked to Temp\_tc folder

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Say, I have some ZIP archive (call it "parent archive") which contains some ZIP archive (call it "child archive") and some text files (in parent archive). This parent archive is in "C:\Files\" folder.
I unpack files with the mouse by dragging them onto "..". When I drag text files and drop them, they correctly appear in "C:\Files\" folder. But if I'd like to unpack the content of child archive (by, again, dragging and dropping), all this content is unpacked to "%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Temp\_tc\" - in other words, into TC's temp folder, which is incorrect behavior.
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TC extracts nested archives to temp folder and open them there, and path is displayed to file in temp dir. So parent dir is temp dir.

I would prefer at all to make working with nested archives more transparent (do not show that they are from temp dir so parent dir would be top archive location)...
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I figured this behavior out just recently. It would make sense to extract inner's archive content into parent archive's folder - like for the other archive's content.
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to extract inner's archive content into parent archive's folder
It is a bad idea: this folder may be read-only, and it is better not to leave garbage there.
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MVV wrote:
to extract inner's archive content into parent archive's folder
It is a bad idea: this folder may be read-only, and it is better not to leave garbage there.
Ну и к чему Вы это написали? I don't understand. I am talking about extracting files with mouse - I am not discussing whether the folder is read-only - it's another theme. Anyway, I am waiting for the author to response. Sorry.
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Ah, ok, I thought you're suggested to extract inner archives into current folder instead of temp.
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