wimlib

Yes, this has been reported before and I am planning to investigate it sometime. The current code is actually already intended to preallocate the space for each file, but perhaps it doesn't work as intended.

I should add, however, that the default capture configuration file is documented [1], so you could manually create a new configuration file based on that file.

[1] https://wimlib.net/man1/wimlib-imagex-capture.html

Neither of those features is currently implemented.

wimlib version 1.9.2 has been released. There are a few small changes: On UNIX, wimlib can now overwrite readonly files when extracting. On Windows, fixed a bug where wimlib could leave a null DACL (a.k.a. "no NTFS permissions") set on some existing directories after extraction. On Windows...

Yes, just use "source list" mode. For the example you gave, create sources.txt containing:
Then do:
See the documentation for details.

Files underneath an excluded directory are not scanned. Therefore, in your example, the path \Users\test\AppData\Local\test is never seen by wimlib at all. Currently, the use case for [ExclusionException] is to name specific file(s) which should be included despite matching a wildcard pattern. This ...

Include the UTF-16 iconv module in your boot environment:

/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules
/usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so

Good news --- I found a workaround for the Windows bug that does not require changing directories' security descriptors. This entirely avoids the problem you've described, as wimlib now will never change the existing security descriptors (except when it actually needs to set a security descriptor gi...

Hi, With regards to capturing the image: when a file or directory is added to a WIM image, wimlib creates any prerequisite ancestor directories with default metadata, including "no security descriptor". In your example, this applied to the root directory of the image. Since wimlib cannot, ...

Can you share the exact command line you used to archive the directory containing only a .7z file? And you definitely think the checksum pass is occurring, i.e. it appears that wimlib is reading through the full .7z file before the "Archiving file data" progress starts increasing?