It would be good of PowerArchiver retained the metadata of files when they get compressed (just like WinRAR does) rather than discarding all of it. I use metadata extensively to label and categorise my files (using the Summary tab within Windows Explorer file manager) however as soon as you compress these files with PowerArchiver, all of the information that I spent time adding gets stripped off. This means that when you subsequently extract the file, the metadata information associated with that file is no longer there. I did search the PowerArchiver options page just in case there was a setting for this, but I couldn’t find anything relevant.

True bnut it is an idea wich can be implimented as and when ready.

http://freearc.org Advantages Free, open-source, with Win32 and Linux versions Includes LZMA, PPMD, TrueAudio and generic Multimedia compression algorithms with automatic switching by file type Filters that further improve compression: REP (finds repetitions at the distances up to 1gb), DICT (dictionary replacements for texts), DELTA (improves compression of tables in binary data), BCJ (executables preproccesor) and LZP (removes repetitions in texts) Special compression algorithms are used in fast compression modes (GRZIP for texts and Tornado for binary data) Overall, 11 compression algorithms and filters are included (compared to 3 in 7-zip and 7 in RAR) and this number still grows Smart file sorting that groups similar files together and fully customizable sorting order (see below) further improve compression Typically, FreeArc works 1.5-3 times faster than best programs in each compression class (ccm, 7-zip, rar, uharc -mz, pkzip) while retaining the same compression ratio; from technical grounds, it’s superior to any existing practical compressor Moreover, you can use any external program as compressor or filter as easy as internal ones, with Precomp, ECM, CCM(x), PPMonstr, Durilca, LPAQ, UDA and PAQ are already preconfigured in arc.ini as shipped You can fine-tune settings for each compression algorithm, and which compression algorithms are used for each type of files; you can create new compression profiles and modify existing ones; use -dic$ option in order to see all details of compression used Features Solid compression with smart updates (only changed solid blocks are recompressed) User-definable solid block size (-s…) and file sorting order (-ds…), including customized filename ordering (arc.groups) AES/Blowfish/Twofish/Serpent encryption with keyfiles support and ability to chain multiple ciphers (-p, -hp, –keyfile, --encryption=ALGORITHMS) FAR and Total Commander plugins allow to create/browse/extract archives using the file manager interface Ability to list/extract archives directly from Internet: arc x http://www.haskell.org/bz/arc.arc *.h Archive protection and recovery, including recovery over Internet driven by CRCs of archive sectors (r/rr/-rr/–original=URL) Ability to test archive before and after any operation (-tp/-t), including checking by recovery record and full archive test Moving to archive (m), joining archives (j), archive recompression (ch), locking (k) and commenting (-z/cw) Select files by size, time/age and name (-sl, -sm, -ta, -tb, -tn, -to, -n), select by/clear ARCHIVE file attribute (-ao/-ac) Base directory on disk / inside archive (-dp/-ap), automatic generation of archive filenames (-ag) Errors and warnings are reported to stderr and reflected in program exit code; --logfile option saves to the file all the information displayed Configurable via arc.ini file and FREEARC environment variable; alternative settings may be selected by means of -cfg/-env options Compared to RAR and 7-zip, FreeArc at this moment lacks the following: GUI, SFX/installer, multi-volume archives, 64-bit version, storing of file attributes/extended timestamps/NTFS streams in the archive, bcj2, data segmentation. These are planned to be fixed in subsequent versions. Third-party GUIs for FreeArc archives wArc — convenient and user-friendly archive manager PeaZip — Windows/Linux archive manager with support of many compression formats

it is in our long term plans for sure…

what i would like is to create more plugins in different formats at the moment u only allow one type of plugin via powerarchiver i would love to see more plugin extensions. Also i would like to know how to create plugins that work with powerarchiver as a lot of total commander plugins are total commander specific. Which means they dont run in powerarchiver.

You can also span already existing ZIP archive: Choose “Write Multi-Volume ZIP…” from the Tools menu in the main PowerArchiver Window.

@spwolf: there wont be “full native 64bit” version for quite an long time since 64bit version of Delphi wont exist for a while :-). http://www.freepascal.org/ …is a 32 and 64 bit professional Pascal compiler…The language syntax has excellent compatibility with TP 7.0 as well as with most versions of Delphi (classes, rtti, exceptions, ansistrings, widestrings, interfaces)…

Thanks for the info…. :)

I can’t see the 1st two being much of an issue. But I would have to agree with Davidsplash on the last request of being able to open archives as a folder. The development team are always working on ways to improve PowerArchiver so Im sure they have read this and put it on the Wish List. However, Any request that could pose a major impact to development time and future update’s would need to be seriosly considered.

Regarding http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3014 Something along these lines: Is it possible to have PA warn a user when creating a self extracting compressed and/or encrypted file when the source file(s) are greater than 4GB that if the resulting file is greater then windows will not be able to run it?

could this be done via plugins

it would be nice to beable to creat user logins so you can tell who is using powerarchiver at any one time, this would mainly be usefully for companies . The idea would be that you have to creat profiles for pa admin, so only admin can change pa settings and then other users. The other users can have features disabled or enabled like just extracting or adding. Some companies don’t mind you looking at an archive but dowen wnat you extracting them. Some don’t mind you using tfiles with in an archive nbut not eallowing you to extract the whole archive to your computer, but can update idiviual files to an archive. many possabilities what do people think of this idea. You can do this in microsoft access for one thing and it help me in my work a lot.

i know this has been mention by myself in the past . Just was wondering if anyone else had an ide on the subject. I would like to be able to tell from the file formats windows what archiver is associated with what formats. This would help me by informing me if powerarchiver is actually assocauied with a format amnds not another program is and if so i can correct this. This also can help identift windows registry problems with archiving formats i know it works sued to use it on another package before switching to powerarchiver for good.

I know this might not be possible at the moment but when you create say a rar or a zip file some encoding to the archive can inform you of the version of that compression format has been used. For example you can tell if zip 2.0 has been used or if the 4gb zip has been used. If the program can tell us which one it is for example it can help us find a program that can open it or get powerarchiver archiver to open it in future if it can not do so already. This would need the help of all archive makers though it shouldn’t be too much trouble as it would eliminate the can’t open but your product sayes it can problem. Like the iso issue with PA

@masu: when will the next version be released? trick question, eh? soon! :-)

basically i think that they want to be able to add extensions to the zip or other format like war jar etc so if a software developer uses their own extension that is cearly zip rar or any format that pa uses then it would automatically recognise it in powerarchiver.

Hello, PA should have a checkbox option “create directory from archivame” in the extract window. In the normal Windows Explorer contextmenu there is already such an option. I miss this option in the extract window, which you normally accesss through the toolbar button “extract”

hope this wish is not forgotten ;)

hello, there should be an option to show the full adress in the PA adress bar e.g. c:\windows\temp instead of temp additionally a VistaLike adressbar would be nice [image: ss_address.png]

Thanks spwolf thats what i needed to hear. I would advertise that on your front page as i believe it is a very important compatibility feature.