Can you include .3MF to the list of re-compressible formats? Its structure is similar to MS Office 2007 documents and Open Document Format. It is a ZIP Deflate archive with XML data and some JPG, and/or PNG pictures inside. Otherwise, if I try to compress .3MF it bearly makes it smaller unless I recompress .3MF to the Store setting then it makes it a lot smaller.
Wish they all would move to 7zip ZSTD in the first place so that the optimized file size with FileOptimizer would be 50% of the ZIP Deflate version. And there would be no extra compression needed :)

@brian-gregory I found the sentence mentioned at https://www.powerarchiver.com/news/

Optimize ZIP/7z/PA archives– PowerArchiver 2021 will optimize your archive for better compression. The same archive will be optimized without an additional archive created.

Thanks very much for your assistance @zebrapower !!

I prefer to use light themes, and when, for example, I have set up my main archive screen to be Classic Toolbar with Blizzard Blue, files in the archive are highlighted (no checkboxes, full row select) with white text on grey background. They are easy to see .

However, in the Add screens, the files and folders are black type upon a pale blue background, which is not so readily visible, especially when highlighting separate files in lists with Ctrl/Click for addition. It would be ideal if the backgrounds to files in these screens could be set to mimic the highlighting of those in the main archive window.

I have tried experimenting with different themes and settings for skins, toolbars and so forth, but, unless I’ve missed something, none seem to give me the effect I want.

@mili You are the Best!!! :)

Any chance of including this format in a future release?

https://github.com/FS-make-simple/paq9a

Exceptional compression levels.

Thanks.

Now that the Windows Store is making support for non-UWP apps mainstream, including those with their own update delivery process, it would be nice to see PowerArchiver in the Windows Store going forwards - at least as a channel for the product to be available.

@marcfou said in Windows 11 Context menu support:

PA22 RC is rocking Win11 and working great! No issues so far. The context menu addition is a huge improvement and much faster now than clicking “show more options”. Excellent work!

great to hear… we will add a bit more to it as well, there are many limitations in new Win11 system but we will try to extend it as much as possible.

Hi @zebrapower

OneDrive for Business is not supported at the moment, the Cloud component only supports the personal OneDrive accounts.
I will check and let you know if we will be able to add it in future versions.

Thanks!

Hi @BigMike

We’ve logged this issue for fixing, thanks very much for the details!

I would be perfectly happy, if PowerArchiver offered me a portable solution with FULL (i.e. also compression and not only decompression) support of all methods offered by ZIPX.
Once again: as unpacking is already implemented for all ZIPX-methods it should be possible to also add packing?! Or is it really a licensing (WinZIP patents) or marketing (further pushing PA-format) issue?
While I think it’s good to develop and push an own technologically advanced format like PA, there is also a need for compatibility, interoperability and exchange with others (using other software) . And ZIPX is currently more common because of the great old name and the wiedspread use of its originating software, WinZIP.

Seems to be implemented in 20.0.0.73

@mili I launched it through PA’s interface, in “burn” section.

Also, when trying to use PA’s “dismount” feature through Context Menu, nothing happened. I am forced to go to PA and dismount the disk myself. I am on strictest option of UAC (i.e. top of slidebar)

Thanks for the information @DaTreeDude
We have logged this in as a feature request, the dev team will take a look to see if we can implement it.

Thanks!

Hi.

Thank you very much for your support!

I do have a question: if a new version of Virtual Drive gets updated, is there a stable link where i can always find the latest update for this tool?

For now i just use trial and error and base my download from the online update check, infer the new file name from the updater if a new version is available, then modify a bookmark link i found according to the latest version, in order to fetch the offline installer for PA virtual drive. Or ask here regularly, which doesn’t seem too pleasant to do repeatedly if a new version is released.

Thank you!

Not yet fixed in PA 20.00.58.
(APK files inside PA files still not compressed very effectively)

@Mili
It was very spooky to see what was happening with this issue when I saw my months’ old post at the top of the list.
I would like the keys to work when browsing inside archives as well as anywhere one would want to navigate folders. I was not aware that the keys worked when navigating the hard drive as I do not use PA that way.
With kind regards and stay safe
DrT

@Mili Okay, it’s been emailed to you. Thanks for you willingness to help!

Fixed in latest build.

Thank you :D

i also entered a wish for PA 2020 for favorite folders to show everywhere so it will be easier to use… otherwise only D&D uses copy and that is because we wanted to use native Windows function for UAC, and every other part of extract uses direct extraction and will elevate UAC when needed. Thanks!

Thank you for the insight on this! :)

Hello!
I think it would be a great option to make the portable version of PowerArchiver compatible with PortableApps (i.e. adding the necessary files and folders to integrate it smoothly into their structure).
I own various other commercial programmes which -when installed in portable mode- offer to make the becessary changes without needing an extra installer or the official PortableApps repos.
Thanks for opinions or perhaps even a realization of this.
A.Borque

Sounds like a nice addition, logged in

there will be changes for sure in PA 2019… not started yet on cloud functionality but will keep you updated. Thanks

Please add support for ownCloud / Nextcloud, thanks.

I’m also Interest in such an setting. I hope you guys from ConeXware can provide such an Feature in an Future update.

This doesn’t seem to be working in 18.01.04 anymore?
I just opened a zip file and the folder tree was collapsed again.

Just to be clear, archive opens up in “Archive Mode”, I’m using “Explorer View”. I’d expect to get the result on the right side, but actually I see the tree collapsed as on the left side:

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I think it worked fine in 18.01.03

@spwolf You are correct. They’re clearly not like your average text file.

Seems to work fine in PA 18.01.03 - thank you again

:heart_suit:

I assumed (maybe incorrectly?) that those hash values were being calculated in real time when opening (or verifying) the archive. If that was the case it should not matter if that is not the standard from the days of old as the program is just displaying additional data.

Thanks

i entered this and few other backup related issues/features into the list… thanks.

zipgenius do a czip which is famous sorry thought everyone new it

@drteeth bump

Finding it strange, I can’t add a comment to a Backup in the Backup module. I’m not saying it would be highly useful or anything but just odd it’s missing!

would be nice if we could turn on a inbuilt debugger so the software catches the bug and tells you the developer where the bug is coming from inside the software.

it would be nice to have par3 support if possible

@spwolf Indeed much faster!

powerarchiver used to beable to tell what archive was being opened even if it did not have correct extension. Wish they could readd this feature.

Another program that uses this features is irfanview .

Okay no problem, thank you for looking into it. With the proliferation of multi core CPUs, anything that uses more cores will be a boon.

@tfrost still early days for 2018, but pressure is always good.

Thanks a lot, if you guys are going to pull this off I’m gonna be really grateful :)

@dd investigate whats the best archiver for mac os and let us know… we started research into mac os version due to new PA format. But it is not that simple - both gui and engines are a lot of work… gui we have to do from scratch.

This has been fixed in PA 2017 and it works well… PA format works even better. Thanks.

bumping this up for the enhancements in next release. Thanks.

this has been added to PA 2017 few months ago. Thanks.

added to the wishlist again… should be very usable with new PA format and many different options possible.

just a reminder that this has been added in PA 2017… thank you.

@a-borque just a reminder that this has been done in PA 2017. Thanks.

this seems to work well in 2017, thanks for the suggestion.

thanks for the suggestion, added it to the list for next major release.

wrote it into the list, thank you.

@brian-gregory said in Opening read only archives in PA:

I’d prefer not to be asked if I want to remove read only attribute until I actually try to update the archive.

wrote it in… thanks.

@pirrbe If you go to Options> Config> Misc> Enable PA debug, you will get debug file with all the options used and timings. Thats the real way to test and to send us info on the testing, since we can see that way if anything is wrong or not done correctly.

Thanks!

@pirrbe i would guess we need to expand this to include .pa and make it work without pae… compress & encrypt is an legacy option for when ZIP encryption was poor.

@ckit said in Flat Folders View:

Ummm yes, now I feel stupid.
Thank you!

it is original view in PA, we added explorer view maybe 10 years ago, or 12 :).

Missing it is normal because there are million options and no matter how much we try to show the most important ones, something will be missed.

seens fixed in 71, much smoother now. thanks @drteeth

@alexmiller said in Lite/Free version and other plattforms:

@spwolf I actually would pay for a lean ‘core’ version focussed simply on maximum performance. Think a multithread Winzip 1.0. I generally don’t use the advanced features, sfx, encryption, etc… All I need is an ultrafast startup, compression and decompression. Even with a 90s interface I wouldn’t mind ;)

compression and decompression is as fast as it can be in PA 2017 already, it is really well optimized. Did you check .pa format?

For startup speed, lets use that other thread :-).

thanks!

Confirmed that the problem is fixed in 17.00.70, but still with some room for improvement:

PowerArchiver 17.00.69 7z Optimized Ultra: 41.579.382 bytes. PowerArchiver 17.00.70 7z Optimized Ultra: 29.057.719 bytes.

great improvement ! You can even drag/drop from one panel/directory to the other panel/directory even multiple selected files. One question : does it request a lot of program coding to ‘automate’ this process ? Adding a ‘move’ icon, that you can hit after selecting files to activate the transferts ?

what would be great if the status bar could tell you if there is an update to powerarchiver saves you having to go and check on update and check that way

I know this is a plugin question but it would be nice if powerarchiver could display what version of a plugin is installed. for example 32 bit or 64 bit and the version number so people know and can diagnose why they have a fault in a plugin

I know you used to have this in 1998 but it would be nice to reintroduce this feature. it would be great if you could detect an archive with wrong extension and offer to change extension. only if you are trying to open that archive.

good feature as many compression programs just simply can’t open archives with wrong extensions

what you could do then is have an option for solid archives and non solid.

the idea was to get more information on an archive instead of just a list of files. The listings at present look ok but they are only the barebones if you want detailed info what in the archive including date added to the archive

@H4ndy yeah… pretty much everything was tried… same goes for apple’s port of zstd. Not efficient for archiver at all.

I don’t think that really needs to be in the program – the mapping should be static by file type. It could be handled in documentation, but if you’re opening something like an .exe or an odd extension it could be useful to know what type of archive PA thought was being opened.

x86 programs run perfectly (and start faster) on x64 system. Only thing not available is addressing over 2GB of memory.

Since in 2017 we are adding our own format where you can use more than 5-6 GB of memory, realistically, when needed, we are also adding full x64 version of PA.

Also, codecs built from grounds up might support faster instructions in x64, so with .pa format you will see up to 30% faster performance in x64 than in x86… for .zip, performance difference is nowhere as close, if any.

I know you can create plugins for powerarchiver but it would be nice to have documentation so we can write our own archive formats to use from within powerarchiver.

I know i’m going over old ground but being an android developer myself it would be nice to have a powerrachiver version on android.

the idea was to run pacl commands from within powerarchiver. Just thought it would be easier to install just one program

while we just last week, Microsoft sent us all the info for the store, it is unlikely that these store updates will have same timing as our regular updates… plus it will likely do everything all over again… but lets see what happens.

@drteeth said in Is this possible?:

Is it possible to burn an ISO without extracting it from a ZIP file first? If it is not possible yet please put it on the wish list. If it is possible, could you please let me know how.

Thanks

DrTeeth

PS Don’t like the new forum at all.

i guess we could make it you can click on Burn on supported ISO inside archive, and it would do everything for you. It would still have to extract the file, but it would be to temp folder and deleted after PA exit?

Hi,
You should add a option that creates independent spanned zip files, based on approximate file size or maximum amount of files per zip.
For example, I’m working on a project that requires ~2,000,000 files that are ~272GB in size. The machine I’m working on has only 60GB of free space, so I can’t put all of these files on the machine at the same time.
Current span zip option allows me to split the zip files, but is dependent on all of them for extraction.
I would like to create 5GB zip files and move them one by one for processing.
After processing I’d delete the extracted files and move in the next zip file.

I currently use a software called “SpinZip” which does the above, but I’d really like if it could be implemented in PowerArchiver.