TempPath

[Tony1]

Hi Kevin.

I was reading through the forum and see that TempPath is only used when archives are updated. It would be useful to have this work for new archives as well. When compressing to a slow removable drive, InCD disc or DragToDisc disc, VCLZip fails or takes very long. It would be useful to create the ZIP on a specified local drive and then have it copied to the removable drive.

Your comments?

Thanks,
Tony.

[Kevin]

You can certainly do this yourself. Just create the archive to a directory and then copy it. A temporary directory is not needed for new archives because compression can be done directly to the archive itself. Or use the mmBlock setting and write all the chunks of a spanned archive to a directory on your HD and then copy them one at a time to your removable media.

One reason that VCLZip might be taking a long time is the BufferedStreamSize property. This is set more for floppies and HD. Look this property up in the help file. You might speed things up by tweaking this property to a larger value so that larger chunks get written to disk at a time.

Kevin