• Tick_Dracy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is the right answer! Since I never used drag and drop I wasn’t ever aware that this was an issue.

    According to the FAQ:

    Why does drag-and-drop archive extraction from 7-Zip to Explorer use temp files?

    7-Zip doesn’t know folder path of drop target. Only Windows Explorer knows exact drop target. And Windows Explorer needs files (drag >source) as decompressed files on disk. So 7-Zip extracts files from archive to temp folder and then 7-Zip notifies Windows Explorer about >paths of these temp files. Then Windows Explorer copies these files to drop target folder.

    To avoid temp file usage, you can use Extract command of 7-Zip or drag-and-drop from 7-Zip to 7-Zip.