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[Sergiu <sergiuhlihor@xxxxxxxxx>]

One other side of the bug: the temp file is not created in same location
as destination. This makes the extraction of a 2TB file impossible when
main OS is installed on a small 256GB SSD, even through the destination
is a 8TB RAID array. It's a shame that such design bugs exists when
those issues were solved decades ago by many other graphical archivers.

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Title:
  File roller creates tmp file on source drive regardless of where the
  file destination is

Status in file-roller package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Package version 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: AMD64

  I had a large file-set to roll up into a zip file (a Clonezilla image:
  A folder containing 44 files totalling 47GB on a USB drive). I call
  this "Drive A". I connected a second drive ("Drive B") to the machine
  with the intent that I would read the data from Drive A and write the
  zip file to Drive B in order to avoid head-thrashing on Drive A and
  maximise throughput.

  I right clicked on the folder on Drive A and clicked "Compress..." I
  used the destination pulldown to indicate I wanted the zip file to be
  created on Drive B. I started the compression operation.

  File-roller created the .zip.tmp file on Drive A in the same folder as
  the object being compressed instead of on Drive B. This caused the
  drive head-thrashing I'd been trying to avoid. When the operation was
  complete, this file was moved to Drive B. This whole process obviously
  took longer than it would have taken to do the compression just on
  Drive A. I consider this behaviour sub-optimal.

  Please will you modify File-roller's behaviour to create it tmp file
  on the destination drive?

  Thank you.

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