@davidsplash: … why do we really need an internal viwer… Well, normally using associated applications would lauch an application which can do other things besides just show the contents. Remember the problems caused by the simple change to file extensions caused by the ILOVEYOU “virus” (.txt.vbs). If everyone used a simple file viewer for email attachments as well as archive contents, it would have made this a non-event. By default graphic files (gif jpeg) are associated with InterNet Explorer. This opens you to various virus/trojan attacks. And the various “helper objects” such as .scr/.vbs files are even more likely to be dangerous. Using a simple viewer which cannot/does not perform any running/launching of the file is usually much quicker, safer and less wasteful of system resources.

@klumy: … if you want to distribute something you should use ZIP for compatibility reasons if you want to distribute something it is better to use SFX Archives (ZIP or CAB) because PA can create ZIP - archives, which are not supported by all archivers… I recommend using CAB SFX, because “With CAB format, you can get much better compression rates than ZIP format.” Thanks!

I like this idea !!

a new checkbox in the archive converter Delete sourcefile after converting maybe this option shouls also be added to the other relevant windows like Write Multi Volume ZIP…

p.s. bug with improper path / pa canceling has been reported on official bug list. thanks,

@NTFS: When extracting files from spanned archives I can’t modify the path or name of the next volume… Can you add ability to change the source path in “Insert Next Volume” dialog? WinRAR has this feature… Why PA hasn’t ?.. Both WinRar and PowerArchiver have several hundred features that other one does not. We try to simplify our dialogues so we dont add extra features that we think that people might not use. I am not even sure if we can change the name of next multivolume via unrar.dll. BTW Please do not post xxxx has, PA doesnt kind of threads, if you wish some feature added, let us know. Otherwise it makes us defensive about what we do or dont do, which is pretty silly. And due to this being PowerArchiver’s forums we appreciate not mentioning of other utilities, in good or bad sense. Most of other commercial software programs do not have public forums and we would appreciate not giving good or bad advertising to anyone on our own forums… thanks,

when will any plugins be avaliable and how can we make our own

this would be great and it would be good if this feature is on archive convert section as well.

Nope, as much as I know none of the compression components have special support for A64’s or HT…

automatically add date to archive filename this would be a very useful function. Maybe this could be integrated in a checkbox in the add window

it would be great if you create a new archive and then while it is adding file decide to cancel the archive that it asks you if you want to save the archive from that point in time instead of it just deleting the achive or not creating it. This feature would be excellent as some times drive get too big and especally usefully whaen your using a laptop and you know your just about to lose power in a minute and its a large archive you want to save before the power goes.

thanks ;)

definetly one the wishlist, hopefully 9.5 will have it!

It is randomly generated SHA-1 key, so there is not much to worry about on that end. It is not your password. It was meant to be there, and can be seen via txt editor. As to extensions, you cant change it and I dont really know how well would that work - I mean then your end user wouldnt be able to open it via PA right? In the future, we might make it so filename of encrypted file is not seen for privacy reasons - we had made pae to work similar to compression encryption formats in which it was usual to see name of the file that is encrypted…

@zjys: If u can’t wait,just use another archiver instead. look: I can wait. It’s what I’ve been doing 4 several years. But the creators of PA are always saying that they’re translating 2 spanish, and it’s not true. Of couse I’m using another program. I’m tired of waiting, and I already think that PA is not as good as they say. Thanx zjys :D 4 recommending me WinR**, I’ve discovered a really good program. And with a spanish interface. It deserves 2 B called “the best”.

Is it possible to just have one archive icon, not one for each type so remove the extension text from the icon image. It doesn’t matter what type they are, PA can open them, if I really want to see the different types I can just get windows explorer to sort them into groups. Also I don’t have lots of archives in one folder so I don’t have the need to see different types in the icons. Maybe you could have a simple PA version with one icon and and advanced one with lots of icons. Maybe too with options like the Advanced add window enabled and so on. There are so many options and many of them I don’t need to see, I can’t be the only one! I don’t mean 2 versions of PA, I mean one version with an option of beginner or advanced features.

Can you add support for the Squeez compression format (extension .sqx) to PowerArchiver. It has compression comparable to (and better than) the 7-zip format, and also has special modes for compressing multimedia files (ie. audio WAV).

The par file format is now in par 2.0 and is very good for helping download files and corruption of archives and file over downloads. it would be greast to add this feature as it would give pa some sort of feature that winrar has to fix archives. Well worth it at the moment i use quickpar for this but it would be better if this is in paowerarchiver. what does everyone else think

It would be nice if there is a set of standard files you use to test powerarchiver on differmnt things, in the download so we can test powerarchives performace agaist its competitors and new features added. Like the canturbury files.