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    Can you include .3MF to the list of re-compressible formats?
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    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 :)
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    Optimize archive on Context Menu
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    I noticed that the option to add the optimize archive function to the context menu is missing on Windows 10. Opening each archive with the interface in order to click it becomes tedious with many files. Same for others functions like Remove Archive Encryption
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    Support for Zstandard .zst/.zstd archives
    Z
    It would be nice to be able to at least extract Zstandard archives.
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    Highlighting files and folders in Add modes
    PA_FanP
    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.
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    .BH in Windows 11 Context Menu
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    Re: Windows 11 Context menu support It would really make me happy if you put .BH in the Windows 11 context menu. I know it’s in the “More Options” section, but this would make it more convenient. Don’t know why the option to add it to the menu isn’t there in the first place. P-L-E-A-S-E ??? :) Thanks You!
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    paq9a support
    R
    Any chance of including this format in a future release? https://github.com/FS-make-simple/paq9a Exceptional compression levels. Thanks.
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    Windows Store Delivery (and ideally updates)
    TheAndyMacT
    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.
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    What features do you want in new format?
    spwolfS
    Tell us what features you want from new format…
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    Windows 11 Context menu support
    BigMikeB
    In Windows 11 a new explorer context menu is introduced. The “old” context menu may still be accessed through an additional mouse click, to reach the PowerArchiver context menu functions, but this isn’t comfortable at all. Could you add PowerArchiver items to the first level (and ideally disable the Windows native ZIP entry)
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    OneDrive for Business support
    Z
    I’m surprised that OneDrive for Business isn’t supported. I can’t link my company’s OneDrive account, but a personal (free) account works fine.
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    Better handling for protected archives
    BigMikeB
    Hi, I’d like to propose an improvement for password protected archives. Actual behavior is: If I open an archive, which is password protected and make a typo in the password dialog, I’ll get the message, that the password was wrong and I end up with an empty window. I need to reopen the archive to be able to enter the password again. Improved behavior: Tell me, that the password was wrong and give me the chance to enter the correct password to decrypt the archive.
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    ZIPX: Add support for packing JPEG with specialized algorithm
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    Hello! I know I have been asking for this feature some time ago, but as nothing has changed let me ask again: The ZIPX-format offers an algorithm, that compresses JPEG-files by about 20-30%. Please add compression (packing) support for this in ZIPX-archives to Powerarchiver. Extraction of JPEGs packed into ZIPX by this algorithm is already supported by Powerarchiver for a long time, so it should not be difficult? Or is it a licensing problem? Thanks!
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    Better archive type handling with drag & drop
    BigMikeB
    Hi, I’d like to suggest, that the correct archive type is (always) selected, when adding files by drag & drop to an archive. This is already happening if the archive has the correct extension. For example, if I’m adding files to test.zip, zip will be selected. If I’m adding files to test.7z, 7z will be selected as format in “Add dialog”. But this won’t be working, if the archive has not the “right” extension. So XPI files (Firefox addons) for example are ZIP files. PowerArchiver opens them without any problems, but if I try to add file by drag & drop, PowerArchiver won’t auto select “ZIP”, but use the last selected archive format, while PowerArchiver already knows, that I’m trying to add files to a ZIP.
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    Elevation of UAC in Mounting Images
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    I love this, only there is one problem. The UAC elevation feature does not extend to Mount Image option in the add-on software PA provided. It is most annoying whenever I am on highest UAC settings and I mount an ISO, every time I open and create a virtual drive UAC appears. I also do not want to completely disable UAC. Is adding UAC elevation for mount image feature possible?
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    Bulkzip Nanozip (.nz) file format
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    The now defunct Bulkzip had Nanozip (nz) as an option this would be great to have for compatibility with my .nz files, so I don’t have to install Bulkzip separately.
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    Include Virtual Drive as standalone in the installer
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    Hi. I noticed that when I want to run the Virtual Drive for the first time inside the PowerArchiver Burner it prompts to download it form the internet. I was wondering, would it be OK to include this utility straight into the offline installer to be able to set it up locally? Thank you!
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    Suggestion to improve .pa format
    Brian GregoryB
    How about recognising a few more (or all) of the file formats that are basically renamed zip files and treating them is if they are zip files. For instance Android .apk files are just renamed .zip files. Libreoffice/Openoffice ODF documents are all, as far as I am aware, just renamed .zip files. (.odt, .ott, .ods, .ots, .odp, .otp, .odb, .odf etc.)
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    Folder navigation
    drteethD
    I would like to make a further plea for my mouse’s backwards and forwards keys to work when navigating to and from files, just like they do in explorer. IIRC, I was told that this functionality would be added to v2019. Mni tnx.
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    Quake 1/2 .PAK file support
    AluminumHasteA
    I use PA for everything, if I can. Would be really nice to maybe get built in support for Quake 1/2 .pak files. More info on the format, seems simpler than I thought: https://quakewiki.org/wiki/.pak
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    Find file in archive.
    LuxorL
    Would it be possible at all in some future version perhaps, to have a “find file” function? Reason I ask is that I was looking for a certain file I knew existed in an archive, but I had to unzip it then use another tool to find the file. It would have saved that extra step if that function existed in PA itself.
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    Preview Window resize not remembered

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    • M Offline
      MBPBo
      last edited by

      I am new to PowerArchiver 2015 so maybe somewhere there are options to do these things, but in looking through the user interface I could not find how to do them.

      Since I cannot find options for these settings, these are feature requests for the next version:

      1. Preview Window: If I resize the Preview window, I would like to have subsequent sessions remember its new size. Even on my laptop screen, the default width of the Preview window is very narrow and leaves almost half of my screen as empty white space.

      2. More information for image files: When an image is displayed in the Preview window, show the image dimensions somewhere (perhaps in the Preview window title bar).

      Suggested enhancement to existing feature:

      Configuration: View: File Listing: Use color coded filelist - When selected, this option, with the default colors of the program, cause the currently selected file in the archive list to have most of its information become unreadable due to the text color/background color lack of contrast. Only the filename remains readable in this case. Suggest using some technique to keep all file information readable for the currently selected file, without the user having to change most of the default colors for this option.

      Regards

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      • spwolfS Offline
        spwolf conexware
        last edited by

        Hello - thank you for taking your time to send us feedback!

        1. Lets try this - close all PA windows. Open PA… resize PA preview window. Close PA. Start PA again - did resize stick? Make sure you do not have multiple windows open!

        3. Color coded file-list - Thanks, we will improve this. It works good in dark skin already.

        2. Can you open this as special thread in Wishlist forums?

        thanks!

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        • M Offline
          MBPBo @spwolf
          last edited by

          I guess I may have forgotten to mention a few items of information that could be important:

          I’m actually using PowerArchiver 2015 Toolbox, not just PowerArchiver 2015. Not sure how the code base may differ between the versions. Also, I’m using this on Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit.

          Prior to writing my first post about the Preview Window resizing issue, I had tried a LOT of combinations of actions to see if I could get the resized window to be remembered - all without success. Following your straightforward directions yielded the same result - the Preview Window always reverts back to its apparent default size on the next execution of PA.

          And just for completeness about the color issue, I am using the Interface Office Black. It appears any Interface setting where the main background of the program screen is white has the low contrast color issue for the selected file.

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          • spwolfS Offline
            spwolf conexware
            last edited by

            can you click on bottom arrow under Configuration icon in Options, save your settings and send them over to support at conexware dot com, please? It might be due to some setting that you have enabled and this will allow us to test with same setting as yours.

            thanks!

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              Mili conexware
              last edited by

              Hello,

              thanks for sending over the settings. we have applied your settings and have changed the size of the preview window. Upon exit and restart of PowerArchiver, the preview window size is remembered.
              Is there a specific way that you are using the preview window and/or how are you exiting PowerArchiver?

              We’ll try to reproduce using the same steps.
              thanks!

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              • spwolfS Offline
                spwolf conexware
                last edited by

                When it comes to color coding, we added one more options to the skins settings.ini file which controls the selected text color… and made it black for default skins so all info is now visible:
                http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/release15/powarc150202.exe

                thank you!

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                  MBPBo @spwolf
                  last edited by

                  After seeing that my settings were not the issue causing the Preview Window resizing forgetfulness, I should have just chalked it up to a peculiarity of my laptop setup since the issue was really just a minor nuisance. But I let my curiosity get the better of me and so I started to fish around on my PC to see if I could get it working.

                  The first step toward a solution was finding that I already had 2 installs of previous PowerArchiver versions (2012 and 2013) from a few years ago that had come from some giveaways. The 2012 version was almost completely removed already but the 2013 version was fairly intact. I first uninstalled both, but that left the 2015 version a bit messed up in the registry since there appear to be common entries for all versions. I suspect that some conflict between 2013 and 2015 versions was the original cause of my Preview window issue. So then I uninstalled PA 2015, deleted ALL registry entries with “PowerArchiver” in their keys, and re-installed PA 2015 Toolbox from scratch.

                  I started the freshly installed PA 2015 Toolbox, resized the Preview window and exited. Upon restart of PA after a resizing of the Preview window, the resized Preview window would be remembered! - SOMETIMES!! I tracked down the registry entry used to hold the Preview window width (PWidth0-2) and tried hard-coding some values to see how PA would behave. The default width of the Preview window is 200 pixels. I found that values up to 782 pixels were acted upon properly by PA 2015 and were persistent across sessions. Any value over 782 pixels caused PA 2015 to revert to the default size of 200 pixels for the Preview window (all this without the Archive Folders Bar displayed). On my 1600x900 laptop screen, I can comfortably resize the Preview window to 980 pixels and the preview seems just fine. But on the next start of PA 2015, my 980-pixel wide Preview window is back to only 200 pixels.

                  I think this has come almost full circle now. I thought it was a feature request initially. Then it seemed to be a case of my bad, having old versions still installed causing it to not work. And once it was working, more or less, it again seems to have become a feature request to allow the Preview window to be more than 782 pixels wide.

                  Sorry for the long-winded monologue…

                  Regards

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                  • spwolfS Offline
                    spwolf conexware
                    last edited by

                    excellent troubleshooting! We will enable any size to be maximum in the future.

                    I think code is protecting users from maximizing the preview so filelist is not seen. We will remove this.

                    thanks again!

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                      Mili conexware
                      last edited by

                      Hello,

                      Preview window should not have those limitations anymore with the latest update.
                      Please let us know;
                      http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2015/powarc150304.exe

                      Thanks!

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                        MBPBo @Mili
                        last edited by

                        I tried the latest PA 2015 (15.03.04) a few days ago when I saw that a new version had been released.

                        The Preview window works great! Now my landscape photos can completely fill the Preview window nicely.

                        And if the width of the Preview window does not allow for the full display of the selected columns on the left of the screen, a horizontal scroll bar appears at the bottom of the left window to allow any necessary scrolling. Perfect!

                        I would still be interested to see the dimensions of images listed somewhere on the Preview window (discussed in thread “Display more info in Preview Window”).

                        Great work!

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