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That's interesting I just opened a large tar archive to try to replicate your issue and it worked fine for me, no freezing.
by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
That's interesting I just opened a large tar archive to try to replicate your issue and it worked fine for me, no freezing.
- deaddodo 3y agoI mean, even if you did find a large archive that did this, the same would happen on Linux. The problem isn't the operating system here, it's that compressed tarballs don't include indices in their compressed form. You have to decompress (in-memory) then iterate the metadata.
- account42 3y agoThat's no excuse for freezing the UI.
- deaddodo 3y agoI'm going to guess that there is a status bar at the bottom, based on Windows GUI paradigms. But sure, it's not ideal. File-roller and Ark definitely do freeze up if you attempt to browse a large compressed tarball. Maybe greying out and showing the indefinite status bar is a better experience for you...but they're equally non-responsive.