could you try to integrate an option “try to compress files in use” like in WinRAR?

@newdles: Just a suggestion though, maybe convert that word “Move” to “Delete”. When you move files, people think “well, I’ll have to move them to another directory and I’ll tell it where to move the files to.”. When you delete files, people think “these files will then go to the recycle bin”. Just a suggestion though. Move is the correct terminology. Compare moving file(s) from "C:" in Windows Explorer a) Select the file(s) b) Select the destination c) Select “Move” The file(s) are copied to destination and then deleted {from "C:} In Archiving file(s) from "C:" in Windows Explorer a) Select the file(s) b) Select “Options” c) Select the destination (Archive Filename) d) Select “Move” The file(s) are copied to Archive and then deleted {from "C:}

these option are there but if you have installed a version of powerarchiver with these options then deselecting them on installing a new version does not work

I hadn’t actually tried WinRAR before (I just thought PA was slow) so I downloaded WinRAR 3.4 beta to try it. I have to say I was very impressed with the speed of it. It loaded the XP SP2 SFX far quicker than PA could manage. WinRAR took approx. 3 seconds to load XP SP2, PA took 4 minutes 11 seconds. A big difference I’m sure you’ll agree. It looks like PA is going through the whole file instead of just reading the file structure because the Hard disk is chugging away for a long time. I’ve only checked ZIP archives and SFX cab files and while WinRAR is faster than PA at opening all archives, this problem is specific to SFX cab files. Any other optimizations that can be made to the opening of all types of archives wouldn’t hurt though. In this case, faster is always better:o)!

Glad to see you’ve got some other ideas for speeding it up. I look forward to testing them. I’d still like to see an option for caching the files as well. If people don’t require this option or are short of memory, they can disable it, but for people who want a faster Explorer view(at the expense of memory used) can enable it if they wish. Best of both worlds!

So basically, current progress bar to advance when PA is starting to open current file… We will check it out for future versions. thanks,

Can you add option so that archives are displayed in the Folder Tree along with folders.

@klumy: WinRAR has a option to disable the asterisk on password entry, so you can directly see the password. Such an option would be also very cool for PA. It is also handy for people who wan’ts to know your password :eek: :confused:

Yes a checkbox for turning on/off “solid” would be the best solution

there is a contect setting thats sayes make sfx cab or zip if thats any help

It would be nice if when you get the choice of file formats to asscoiate with powerarchiver that it can list what program is using what file format. So if I have rar associate with say winrar it sayes so. this would help solve some problems assocaites with some file formats not working in powerarchiver or not working as they used to, by telling me why

@deipotent: TBGBe - … surely the issue of DnD’ing between tabs is very similar as when DnD’ing between PA windows (as is currently the case). Similar, yes. I was just saying that it is not a simple to implement as it may first seem. So, in my opinion only, more likely to be PA 10 than in a PA9.X @deipotent: if you DnD a file from one PA window to another Pa window, the DnD Add window is displayed, but when you click “OK” the progress dialog is displayed, but actually nothing happens (ie. the file i9s not added) NOTE: You shpouold also test a DnD move operation (ie. DnD with SHIFT held down) Definately create a new thread in Tech support for this. Don’t forget too give as much detail (maybe example archives/screenshots) as possible including exact version of PA and O.S.

The CAB files created by InstallShield are not ordinary CAB files - they can’t be opened by PA or WinZip! The only program I know that can open these files is called ZipScan. Please enable support for this feature! I know that this format has been around for a long time (The Delphi 2 installer used this). Also, please try and enable UHA support - it really is that good! Keep up the good work!

Huge feature missing: pressing a letter on the keyboard doesn’t take you to the folder that begins with that letter. That’s very uncomfortable and annoying. Please…fix it.

It would be nice to have a plugin for outlook so i can work with comprerssion file formats i.e 7 zip or zip or cab while I was in outlook just like winzip does with its zip plugin for outlook

you could install just the features you want and not the ones you don’t use. Just look at winamp for example or irfanview which uses this philosophy plugins. They are quicker to download and musch faster to adapt to changes in image/music formats. It would help reduce the size due top the fact yuou only download and install the features you really need. This would be a nice idea for pa as it would help make it easier for theym to maintain as if one part does not work they can disable it redoit or update it much quicker than it is now and you won’t have to download the whole of pa just for an update due to say 7zip

Hi, it would be great if there were some more useful functions available in the extraction window. e.g. adding “default extract location” to it so the user can directly choose in the Extraction dialog, where he want’s to extract his files extract to current folder extract to /archive folder extract to last extracting folder or user definded folder. normally this options are available in the optionsmenu. But it would be cool, if these options would be directly available in the extraction window.

@FineWolf: Make it an option and off by default. You could add a little label below the option explaining that there will be no notification and bla bla bla… Yes, this would fit! what do you think?

JAR (new ARJ) is not so widespread and that is the reason why it’s not supported. There are many formats that even show better results than 7-ZIP and CAB - like SQX - but are not so used so no need for extending our application, making it slower, bigger just to support one more format that use less then 1% of users. 7-ZIP is supported becasue it’s open-source and it is the only format that is constantly growing. JAR is vey old format - I rembebr it since 1996, but still didn’t grow. And, as I know, JAR compression is protected - like RAR, ARJ and ACE - we could probably make only support for decompression, but never compression itself.

aha! Can you update it, too? It would be great cause its a good format! ThX –- SpAwN oF Da TDF — Greezly…