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Unpacking multiple files - preview window

Posted: 2023-12-27, 10:20 UTC
by wanderer
I recently unpacked a lot of rather small files to a folder. The process was taking a long time, so i minimized the window. When i hovered over the taskbar icon, the preview window was shown. It's title was alternating between "0% - Unpack" and "100% - unpack", which was not very helpful. IMO in this case, it would be better to show something like: "Unpack xxx/yyy - pct%", where xxx the remaining files to unpack, yyy the total files and pct the percentage.

Same stands for packing of course ("Packing xxx/yyy - pct%" and "Verifying xxx/yyy - pct%").

Re: Unpacking multiple files - preview window

Posted: 2023-12-27, 12:16 UTC
by wanderer
Continuing with the comments in this function, when the unpack of many small files starts, in the main window, the action being seen most of the time (above the from/to lines) is not "unpacking" but "setting date/time", which feels unnatural. I guess the time to unpack is much smaller than the time after setting date/time (which also includes the loading of the next file to unpack). It could use a little tweaking in order to show "Unpacking" most of the time.