There are quite a few occasions where something large is compressing and you decide it's going too slowly.
You could cancel it and start again but then you lose the compression already performed.
It would be ideal if as well as the running dialog's ability to change the task's priority, it could alter the compression level. Presumably this would apply to files that started to compress after the choice was made rather than any in the midst...
Cheers, David
Last edit: Mesmeric 2023-02-05
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I'm not ready to work for such feature.
Use fast or fastest compression for big files.
If you compress single file, then the best choice is xz format.
The good thing with xz format that 7-Zip File Manager in some cases can open file inside xz archive without full unpacking.
So it can be very fast to extract some files from big VM image inside xz, if 7-zip supports that VM image format.
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There are quite a few occasions where something large is compressing and you decide it's going too slowly.
You could cancel it and start again but then you lose the compression already performed.
It would be ideal if as well as the running dialog's ability to change the task's priority, it could alter the compression level. Presumably this would apply to files that started to compress after the choice was made rather than any in the midst...
Cheers, David
Last edit: Mesmeric 2023-02-05
I'd love this!
I often pack 50+ GB (mostly VMs) and i would benefit from this kind of option.
I'm not ready to work for such feature.
Use fast or fastest compression for big files.
If you compress single file, then the best choice is
xzformat.The good thing with
xzformat that 7-Zip File Manager in some cases can open file inside xz archive without full unpacking.So it can be very fast to extract some files from big VM image inside xz, if 7-zip supports that VM image format.