Nice idea spwolf, as part of any R&D this will be a valued and welcome tool in order to assist Powerarchiver maintain an already excellent customer service and in theory enable conexware to role out important fixes/patches faster with less impact to the end user.
7-Zip Optimized Compression in PowerArchiver
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What is it?**
From PowerArchiver 2009, we have added feature called Optimized 7-Zip compression. This feature is currently unique to PowerArchiver 2009.
With Optimized Compression we have tried to solve one of the most important issues that 7-Zip has when compared to ZIP and RAR formats, which is speed and automatic detection of content being compressed.
What does it do?
With Optimized compression feature on, PowerArchiver tries to smartly detect files that are being compressed and assign special compression methods to improve either speed or compression. In the case of text files, it automatically uses PPMd compression for them (instead of LZMA) which has a lot better compression ratio and is also faster. For files that can not be compressed further, it uses different LZMA settings to speed up compression without losing compression strenght. It also works great with solid setting on, which is reccomended as not only it increases compression strenght but also speed as well.
Results
Results are double the compression strenght on text files, and double the speed on files that can not be compressed (mp3, avi, mpeg, etc). Obviously these are the best case scenarios, and in real life usage it depends on data that you are trying to compress.
Hi spwolf,
No worries about the late reply.
As for your problem with many tabs, just have a “close all” option.
What about my request to be able to use a mouse’s forward and back buttins to navigate the archive? I always press my back button first by instinct and only then realise that I have to use the cursor and my left mouse button.
I look forward to the tab enhancements.
Cheers
DrTeeth
@bigmike said in Tabs, empty windows and extra closing.:
@spwolf said in Tabs, empty windows and extra closing.:
But good idea about something there if user is not using/browsing hdd? Maybe MRU archives? Or output from favorite archives window? @Alpha-Testers - i know @Brian-Gregory is using classic with folders, maybe he can give some input?
How will this work with your proposal here?
1st tab on opening with no arguments: Files and folders/folder pane shows “My PC”
1st tab on opening with archive: Archive content/folder pane shows archive folder structure
opening an archive will open a new tab, folder pane shows archive folder structure
opening a new tab by (+) will show MRU list/Favorites?
On the first guess, I would vote for “Favorites” to fill the empty pane
Probably, that will make it pretty confusing for the standard user…
But the pane should never be empty. That is confusing, too.
Maybe restricting browsing “My PC” to explorer mode and using folder pane in archive mode consequently for Favorites/MRU and for archive folder structures, in case an archive is open, is smarter.
both folder panel and browsing hdd in archive mode are optional features, default is that there is no folder panel and there is no hdd browsing in archive mode.
So i dont think it will be too crazy for pro users… and it is useful for sure.
Hi,
I had a look at the command line switches, but there are no switches to change the startup mode.
At the moment, PowerArchiver opens in the last used mode.
I’d like to have command line switches to influence the startup mode.
Basically, the aim is:
Opening PowerArchiver from Start Menu or Desktop: Start in Explorer Mode
Opening PowerArchiver by double clicking an archive: Start PowerArchiver in Archive Mode
@brian-gregory said in Alt+Enter in Modern Toolbar?:
What is ALT-Enter supposed to do?
It always used to be full screen toggle in the old days which is now F11.
properties window… before it did not work in modern, also shortcuts were quite random.
@bigmike said in Sorting broken in all views but details view:
I can confirm, that this problem is fixed here in 18.00.56. Thank you.
thanks for reporting it!
@darthpingoo said in Pressing tools buttons restarts app:
@spwolf Are you planning to implements Ribbon in FTP/Backup/Burner tools too?
We cant do it in main PA GUI, since we cant hide individual ribbon ui components, this is technology limitation of Microsoft Ribbon UI SDK that we use for ribbon.
So people who bought Standard and Professional licenses, and also our Enterprise users that hide those from their own users (most of our Enterprise users limit this functionality as security measure), would have Backup, Burner and FTP always there which would be very annoying for them.
edit: if you thought it pabackup.exe, paburner.exe, etc, yeah, it is possible to do it there in the future. We have to have both options since Ribbon UI is only available from Windows Vista & 7, so our Windows XP users still need to have classic interface option.
How did you extract?
I was able to open the file via PowerArchiver, click on Extract, picked a folder and it extracted there fine.
Using version 18.00.53
the Icons will now show up as Original when clicking on the Backup Tab while using Original icons.
https://powerarchiver.cachefly.net/2018/powarc180050.exe
Tooltips fix coming up.
Thanks @BigMike
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