By
default, PeaZip
fully integrate an improved implementation of native drag and drop on
Windows platform, and also implements
an optional custom drag and drop mechanism. Both options are fine tuned
for the needs of archive management task, and provides security,
stability, and speed improvements over standard system's drag and drop
mechanism.
Options > Settings > General, "Use native drag and drop on
Windows" switches the application between native and custom drag
&drop mode.
Opening an archive file in PeaZip's
archive
browser allows to
select content
to be extracted through
full-featured extraction GUI, or simply dragged to the system which
results in direct extraction without further interaction requests.
Depicted in this screenshot, legacy custom
drag
and drop
extraction
from archive browser to system, using PeaZip's custom drag and
drop implementation (optional, default off) which shows its own drag
and drop
information box about destination target and content being handled by
the operation. Please note that, by default PeaZip uses native Windows
drag and drop, improved for providing optimal performances for
archive's extraction.
Fast Drag and Drop extraction from archives
PeaZip
drag and drop implementation is specifically fine tuned for extraction
of large contents from archives, and substantially improvs the
security, stability, and on certain circumstances the speed, over the
standard, geneal purpose system's drag&drop implementation.
Standard Windows drag and drop implementation (taken as reference)
needs the
selected content to be firstly decompressed to a temporary system's
path, then moved to the intended destination directory, which needs
twice the data being written if the intended destination is not on
system's disk.
Instead, PeaZip directly extracts
the dragged content to the target path, so under any circumstance data gets written only once, and only to
intended destination.
PeaZip's fast drag and drop extraction
implementationbrings multiple advantages over standard drag and drop
- speed: extraction is
nearly twice as fast when the
destination directory is not on system's disk, i.e. extracting data to
different partitions, removable disks or usb keys,
network paths...
- stability:
if large amount of data is involved, standard drag and drop will fail
if system disk has not enough free space, while PeaZip's fast drag and
drop extraction only requires sufficient free disk space on the
intended destination
- security:
if encryption is involved, no orphaned plain-text data could ever be
left on system's temporary path, as the decompressed and decrypted data extracted from
the encrypted archive is written only on the intended destination path
Default option "Use native native
drag and drop on Windows" mechanism brings
additional advantages over the purely custom approach:
- ease of use:
native drag&drop is consistent with standard behavior of system and
other Windows applications, while custom drag and drop can target only
desktop or open folders with address bar enabled (standard on all
Windows systems)
- unnecessary
levels of nesting of extracted files and folders are automatically
removed when using native drag&drop
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PeaZip free archiver utility also supports dragging files
from system to application for archiving and extraction (if drag and
drop source is detected being an archive
file i.e. 7Z, RAR, ZIP...), and for plain
drag&drop file copy.
Dragging files from
filesystem to an open archive leads to archive
update GUI for
adding
dropped files to the current archive, if format is
write supported (i.e. add to existing zip, but not to rar which is a
proprietary format supported only for decompression and test
operations).
Screenshots
of PeaZip
contextual menu and SendTo
menu entries, for performing straightforward archive creation,
extraction and test archives operations, with minimal or no interaction
with main
program's GUI, simply right clicking on target 7z, rar, tar, zip...
archives.
Extract... and Add to archive entries brings to main extraction and
compression screens respectively, allowing to fine tune the action with
all supported options (compression format and level, provide encryption
password, split to volumes, delete original files after operation, etc).
Extract here
and
Add to .7Z / Add to
.ZIP simply starts immediate
extraction or archive creation in the selected format, applying default
options, without requiring further user's interaction after right click.
On Microsoft
Windows platform,
system context menu entries (and file extensions associations) can be
customized during
installation or from Options > System integration to keep favourite
compression, decompression, testing, encryption entries.
On
Linux operating systems,
FreeDesktop_integration folder contains sample scripts for integrating
the application in system's contextual menus.
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as on the entire domain, are free for any use under Public Domain
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Synopsis: Fast drag and
drop extraction from archives with PeaZip custo, drag&drop extract
implementation. Context menu integration to compress, test and extract
archives from system's context menu.
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