#600 use "move" instead of "copy" from temp folder

[Gregory Suvalian]

Can you change behaviour of 7-zip to use "move" instead of "copy" when 7-zip unzips the files. Issue is with single HDD systems and big files, this will speed up things significantly. WinRAR does it right now.

[David Balažic]

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Why not extract directly to the destination folder ?

I know once somebody said, that is can not work in case of dragging the file from the 7zip window into an explorer window, but I think there is one program (WinSCP), that does it :
- user drags icons from WinSCP window
- WinSCP copies file directly to destination folder

[Preston L. Bannister]

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I concur.

After downloading a mozilla source tar.bz2 file, the combined untar and copy time ... took longer than a file-at-a-time checkout from CVS. Just slightly absurd. :)

Using Windows MoveFile() API works, and is easy to use.

[R-U-Bn?]

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I completely agree with this feature request. (Using Win XP)

Just been extracting a file of 3 Gigs. Not only did I had to wait so long for the copy process (move is immediate!), but since my HD only had like 6 G left (unextracted file would be 5), the extract failed because my HD became empty (5(temp)+5(copy)=10!).

So for both reasons, FR "thirded"...

Hey, nevertheless, still big thanks for the development of 7z 2 da developers!!

[Bob/Paul]

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WinRAR extracts directly, even when drag-and-drop to explorer.

[ljj]

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If you move a file to a location on the same disk, windows preserves permissions and ownership from the temp directory. This is not what you want. The temp dir should only be used if the target dir is not on a local harddisk.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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1768128 is a duplicate of this bug.

[Yosi Hakel]

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IMHO, This is the single most important issue 7zip has
These local copies are especially time consuming when working on laptops (slow 5400 HDs)

[Danny]

Move instead of copy would work for 99% of the cases. Using move instead of copy could be an option.

Speaking of options, there's currently a "Working folder" option under Tools->Options->Plugins->7-Zip->Options->Folders that lets you pick "current" over "System temp folder", but I either misunderstand what that option does, or it is being ignored.