Since when does moving files extract files?

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I recently downloaded the Android SDK (1 GB). Then I tried to move
the thing and it took forever. And there were files left over.

So I redid the download. Afterwards... This time using the right
mouse button click and drag to select "move". Same thing happened.
Windows Explorer gets tied up for 30 minutes or so. It appears to be
extracting files. But I also get an error moving one of the files.
The Windows Explorer bogged down experience is like pre-Windows XP.

In Windows I've never experienced this, but seems that moving the
folder causes it to be extracted in the destination? Doesn't say
anything about that in the download.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html?hl=sk

My main concern is whether the download is actually installing
something. I've been working on this Windows installation to make a
backup but I don't want a half-baked installation to be part of it.

Anybody have a clue? Is automatically extracting when moving a folder
something done in Linux?

Thanks.
 
John said:
I recently downloaded the Android SDK (1 GB). Then I tried to move
the thing and it took forever. And there were files left over.

So I redid the download. Afterwards... This time using the right
mouse button click and drag to select "move". Same thing happened.
Windows Explorer gets tied up for 30 minutes or so. It appears to be
extracting files. But I also get an error moving one of the files.
The Windows Explorer bogged down experience is like pre-Windows XP.

In Windows I've never experienced this, but seems that moving the
folder causes it to be extracted in the destination? Doesn't say
anything about that in the download.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html?hl=sk

My main concern is whether the download is actually installing
something. I've been working on this Windows installation to make a
backup but I don't want a half-baked installation to be part of it.

Anybody have a clue? Is automatically extracting when moving a folder
something done in Linux?

Thanks.
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That file is an ordinary ZIP. I downloaded the 32 bit one,
to save space, and there didn't seem to be anything weird
about it.

Linux desktop has "Archive Mounter" and "Archive Manager", for dealing
with things like ZIP. The Mounter converts a ZIP file into a desktop
disk icon. And then you can deal with the files inside, using the
file explorer in Linux. When a ZIP is mounted, you can also look
in your home directory, look for a folder beginning with ".g" in
the name of the folder, and the file tree of the ZIP may be
visible in there. That's important if you, say, opened a text
editor, and wanted to navigate to a text file within the ZIP, from
the command line.

pluma ~/.gvfs/somezip/somefile.txt

Something along those lines. I don't remember the exact name
of the mount point, but it could be .gvfs.

The Archive Mounter and Archive Manager, may be present in the
right-click Context Menu when you're in the file manager in Linux.
I can't remember what the Manager is for... :-)

One slight difference between Linux and Windows, is Linux
has the option of "sniffing inside a file", to figure out what
the file is. Windows relies strictly on file extension for that.
In Windows, if the file ends in .ZIP, then ZIP tools will be used.
In Linux, I could rename the extension to something.bin, and
Linux could look inside, examine the file magic, and determine
it is a ZIP, and behave accordingly. Perhaps the Archive Mounter
would then open the file and make a disk icon appear. To remove
the disk icon from the desktop, right-clicking it and selecting
"Unmount" or "Eject" should be enough.

That's just from memory - I didn't start up any VMs to verify that.

In summary, there's absolutely no reason for either Windows or
Linux to behave strangely, in the presence of a ZIP. It should
take multiple steps, to extract files and folders from it. The
Windows built-in ZIP capability, does roughly the same
thing as the Archive Mounter, in that it first allows you to
look at the files in File Explorer.

HTH,
Paul
 
Paul said:
John Doe wrote:
Click to expand...
In summary, there's absolutely no reason for either Windows or
Linux to behave strangely, in the presence of a ZIP. It should
take multiple steps, to extract files and folders from it. The
Windows built-in ZIP capability, does roughly the same thing as
the Archive Mounter, in that it first allows you to look at the
files in File Explorer.
Click to expand...

Either that or this is the Twilight Zone.

I might be looking at it wrong in Windows 7 Explorer. I didn't
recognize that the files in the folder are compressed. So when I
select the two subfolders and one file and try moving them, they
automatically get extracted because in fact they are compressed
files.

I will download the thing again and take a look at the icons in
Windows Explorer. One clue is the fact that the download shows up
as a folder with a tree.

By the way...

After two days of learning everything there is to know... Tablet
PC stuff is technically awesome, unless I'm just buying into the
hype. Looks like speech is better supported but that's no
surprise. If not already, shouldn't be long until somebody
implements speech activated scripting for tablets, before it
officially comes to the PC. Again, unless what I'm seeing is hype,
Microsoft is being left in the dust. And that's really too bad,
since of course the larger PC has oodles more potential. Tomorrow
hopefully I get down to the nitty-gritty.
 
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