File transfer question

StonedPenguin · 6 Sep 2011 at 13:43

Hi there,

I currently have 2 SATA drives and a SSD, C being the SSD as primary with OS installed and a game or 2. The problem I have is that say I have a 10GB .rar file on d: (sata) and I extract it onto the same hard drive, After extraction I have to wait for it to be moved from a temp folder on C: so.. It is writing the 10gb to the SSD then back to the SATA?
When I just want it on the SATA, Extract direct onto the SATA without using massive writes on the SSD..
I hope I've made sense :confused:

StonedPenguin · 6 Sep 2011 at 18:31

no one? Perhaps I worded it all wrong,

.rar file on d:\, I 'extract files here' but once its done extracting the file it then moves it from c:\temp/blahblah back to d:\ so each time it has huge writes to the SSD when I just want it read/writing on the sata.

bradders2000 · 6 Sep 2011 at 19:26

You don't seem to have mentioned which program you're using for the extraction. Is it up-to-date? (latest version)

Are you just right clicking the rar and picking extract off the context menu or are you acually opening said extraction program and extracting within it?

rpstewart · 6 Sep 2011 at 20:08

As above it would help to know what you're using for the extraction but Winrar will allow you to define the temp path for extraction. Can't remember if it's a fixed location or whether it can be set as the same location as the archive.

StonedPenguin · 6 Sep 2011 at 20:09

Thanks for the reply, I'm using the latest version of winrar. I'm right clicking and pressing extract files here (on d: ) then when it's finished extracting the file it transfers said file from some temp windows folder on c: back to d: , I want to avoid these huge writes back and forth from c: (SSD).

rarryawn · 6 Sep 2011 at 21:51

Winrar should be doing that automatically (not using any other drives as temp). What makes you think it is transferring it to C:?

StonedPenguin · 7 Sep 2011 at 01:11

rarryawn said:
Winrar should be doing that automatically (not using any other drives as temp). What makes you think it is transferring it to C:?

Once the file extraction has completed, the windows file transfer window comes up and says it's moving the extracted file from a temp dir in the windows folder on c: (SSD) back to where I told it to extract to on d:\

Why is it doing this?

whitecrook · 7 Sep 2011 at 01:13

You can change Winrar's default temp directory from Winrar's Options > Settings > Paths tab.

Or use a different RAR prog. Try 7z

bradders2000 · 7 Sep 2011 at 19:03

If you look at the settings in WinRAR, there is a checkbox to make it only use the temp directory for removable disks.

So assuming that checkbox IS ticked, the source and/or destination drive must appear as a removable drive to WinRAR. Why exactly, I don't know.

You said you have 2 SATA drives, does it do the same thing for both of them?