Add 'Cancel' and 'Pause' Options During Compression

[arnesacnussem]

RT

and what about save progress in a cfg or json file so i can update my windows10 first :)

[Iridium-IO]

Currently, not going to happen since the underlying compact.exe function in Windows doesn’t work like that.

However in future I plan to make things more granular by calling compact.exe in a loop for each file, so it could be possible

[alpe12]

Nothing yet? 😢

[Masamune3210]

Its already been stated that the underlying process doesn't support pausing or resuming, and its on the tracker. Best thing to do is wait and see

[Iridium-IO]

It's now technically possible to pause compression, the issue comes with catching the edge cases that arise from it. People will pause compression, mess around with their files in the meantime, hit resume and wonder why the program crashes. I will add it, but it's always problematic trying to think of how someone can break even a simple feature.

[ttonin33]

For the begining File tampering cold be ingored, so that the usability of the Hard Drive can be temporarly restort for use of other tinks like game starting, wile compressing some Data witch isent actively workt on. Like Compressing a 200GB Game gona take a realy long time and due of the lack of an pause butten your cant even play another Game meanwile beacause it take vorever to start because the Hard Drive is to 100% occupied.

[Masamune3210]

1. File tampering should not be ignored, it can cause crashes when things expect one state and find another
2. The pause button, as stated, is being or already has been added.
3. Don't fill up a drive 100% unless you actually cant help it any other way. Filling a HDD causes it to slow down on file transfers due to excessive fragmentation and files being pushed to the outside of the disc, and filling a SSD is bad for its health so much that most drives now either come with overprovisioning or will beg you to enable it if it doesn't

edit - I have now realized you meant 100% in use, not 100% full, point still stands though. If you really have to do something on the drive, just wait until you don't have to use the drive for a extended period to do the compression.

[ttonin33]

1. Here I would simply wish for the start a warning, like "Modifying files leads to crashes!" So that this option is available earlier besides that modifications while the active compressing will probably have the same result.
2. v3.0.0-beta.1 has this not yet ore i am blindly.
3. It is clear that you have to do this if you do not actively use the hard disk, but the point is to be able to do this for a short time if you have made a bad schedule.

[Masamune3210]

If you have to be told that modifying files from their default state can lead to issues, I'm not sure you should really be messing with things like this in the first place lol It might not be in a build yet, but it has been stated in this very issue to be being worked on

[ttonin33]

I am not the one who intends to play with his files and end up wondering. I suggested a quick solution that would allow the early implementation and address this mentioned problem. However, it looks like I will have to be patient or use CMD.