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trolCommander - fork of muCommander file manager
http://trolsoft.ru/en/soft/trolcommander/
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Feature request: Ability to pack to 7zip format #106

Open vatterspun opened 8 years ago

vatterspun commented 8 years ago

Current behavior

TrolCommander will compress (pack) to a variety of formats ZIP, TAR, ISO, etc. but not 7zip.

Requested capability

Additional capability for compression to 7zip format.

Why this is important

7zip has dramatic space benefits over existing ZIP and BZIP2 formats. For large archives (especially lots of log files and databases) the space savings can get into the 90% range over standard ZIP. (more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip#Formats). This is especially useful for large files and long term backups.

For Mac users, this is especially important as there are no free or open source (that I could find) high-compression tools with a file manager interface. Keka is the closest I've come but it is only drag-and-drop, which can be a pain if you want to pick and choose items to add to a given archive.

Thanks!

mkortkamp commented 8 years ago

Is anyone already working on this?

mkortkamp commented 8 years ago

...started working on this...

trol73 commented 8 years ago

That's great, thanks! I could try to help..

vatterspun commented 8 years ago

Hey I saw that 7z read capability was added to the latest release. Thanks for that.