#1018 store full path with drive letter

[randomcore]

when can we expect "store full path with drive letter" feature? winrar can do it and sometimes it's an very useful thing.

yes, i've seen the FAQ. but i'm still missing this feature. no chance?

[Igor Pavlov]

Please describe cases when it's an very useful thing.

[marwelwel]

I also miss "store full path" (even without drive letter).
Assumed you have a project allocated in different folders, because it's parts are edited with different software tools.
e.g.
\Wordprocessor\MyProject
\Imaging\MyProject
\CAD\MyProject

If you advise 7zip to add all the project files to a zip file as follows...
7za u myzip.zip \Wordprocessor\MyProject
7za u myzip.zip \Imaging\MyProject
7za u myzip.zip \CAD\MyProject

... it will result in a useless zip file, because all of the files from the different tools will be copied into ONE MyProject folder.

Hope this example explains the dilemma.

regards marwelwel

[Roman]

I have about 100 subfolders, with the same structure in each. I store files relevant to instances of an application.

I loop through them and add log files to an archive. Since all the files have the same name, I need to store the path in the archive or they get overwritten (or 7zip reports a duplicate name error, depending how I try to do it) .

After much digging and trying to fool 7zip to do it, I finally gave up. I now use izarc command line for this to generate a zip file. a simple switch stores the absolute/relative path in the archive. Its compression isnt as good, but it is also free and most importantly, allows me to do what my job requires of me.

[Victor Westmann]

I also miss compress with full path. Drive letter doesn't matter at all to me.