7z keeps displaying "0%" at the front of the progress line. You can see that in the attached screen shot, even though the job has finished well over 90 of the files/bytes. Version 16.02 on 64-bit Linux 4.15.0-23-generic (Ubuntu 18.04).
I see. If I understand the implications of what you're telling me, the software is performing more than one pass, displaying the files being processed once for each pass, but only calculating the percentage complete for the last pass (even though it's displaying percentage complete beginning with that first pass). I was taking the progress display at face value, based on which (and the amount of time which had elapsed when I killed the process) I figured it would be days before the job was finished (if ever). I will close the ticket. Thanks for your quick response.
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Not a BUG.
1% of task was not finished.
Maybe it just have read some data to internal buffers.
I see. If I understand the implications of what you're telling me, the software is performing more than one pass, displaying the files being processed once for each pass, but only calculating the percentage complete for the last pass (even though it's displaying percentage complete beginning with that first pass). I was taking the progress display at face value, based on which (and the amount of time which had elapsed when I killed the process) I figured it would be days before the job was finished (if ever). I will close the ticket. Thanks for your quick response.
Doesn't seem that I have permission to close my own tickets, so you'll have to do that yourself.