it would be good if you wrote more about the options that you want (be more specific) as we dont use winzip :-). thanks!

file type from content file type from extension this was on the tools menu in version 6.11 and was one of the best thing around i would like to see this reinstated.

It would be nice if you make a import, you can just import the xml from filezilla and PA extracts the info it needs. :-)

@Ice: Yes, thank you, but (sorry for being blunt) that was a year ago! :o :confused: priorities :-). once 2010 is out, and we get some breathing time, portable version is coming.

its on our list for 2011 (and its already an big list)…

File Encryption. Just be nice to avoid PGP desktop

I would indeed like this moved to the Wish List. Thanks. I’m not sure why you would consider preserving empty folders crucial for backups. If the restore destination has the folders that the backup archive does not, then no harm is done during the restore. But if the restore destination does not have the folders that are empty in the backup archive, then the restore destination gets a bunch of empty folders that it didn’t have before. Maybe that’s useful if you want to transfer a folder structure, but if you only want to transfer files, why clutter the zip and the restore destination with empty folders? I’m just suggesting that it should be an option to omit backed up folders from the archive if they have no files in them that meet the filter criteria for the PBS. Jeff Jansen

I suppose there’s countless options that we would find useful for our preferences in a backup situation…I’m sure the team will give it some thought as they always seem to do when a request surfaces…:)

@jsjansen: By which I meant to say: When I: have this file structure: folder –file1 –file2 –file3 Configure PA with ‘Use normal relative path’ OFF and Create a PBS to backup ‘folder’ with ‘Include subfolders’ ON or OFF, and ‘Store relative folder information’ ON, then the resulting zip file contains this: folder –file1 –file2 –file3 and not this: file1 file2 file3 Jeff Jansen yeah, of course - it does not respect that option right now. I was just commenting that in the future, only difference would be exactly that situation that you are commenting :-)

we already get our money’s worth but I’m not opposed to asking for more…:)

david, you usually report bug in one line sentence :-). so whatever you want to do to improve bug reporting you can do it. For us, 99% of that info is not useful, because last time another software caused issue with PA was 3-4 years ago… and thats among more than 1,000 other bugs reported. What we need is nicely written way to reproduce the issue, and that will help us the most, as well as being patient and answering our questions, even if sometimes they seem endless :-)

they did this cause they can’t read english, sorry to be blunt this is a wisdh formun for the software powerarchiver.

Thank you!

can we have more detail on creating plugins for pa. As some functions are pa specific. As they are for total commander

That’s too bad… Otherwise it’s a great product, anyway. Thanks for the quick reply!

I will wait patiently…thanks

It would be nice to have the auto backup feature manage the number of back up files that you would want to keep when appending a times tamp to the file name. For example, if you have a schedule set up to backup a few folders daily to a network location or device, have a setting that says, keep last X backup files where X is the number to keep and delete the rest based on the file name format. I wrote a windows service once that did this with the command line WinZip utility. It basically acted like a wrapper for that…

when can we extract part of a rar set you can with winrar and some other free compression programs so why can’t we with pa

@wulffra: I’d like to have the following feature available in the next release … a) select multiple files (explorer) b) PAE, SelfExtracting files under RMB context menu c) use 1 pw for all selected d) after all files are zipped to .exe files, option to have the source deleted Right now, each file has to be selected individually. brgds too bad it isn’t in the 2010 version … :-( =

<snigger> With kind regards, DrT</snigger>