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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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Tell us what features you want from new format…
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It would be nice to be able to at least extract Zstandard archives.
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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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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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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:
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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?
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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. -
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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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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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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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.) -
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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I use PA for everything, if I can.
Would be really nice to maybe get built in support for Quake 1/2 .pak files.
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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. -
Hi.
Is there a way to enable the user to encrypt the files inside a ZIPX archive that has already been created?
This could save time for large archives that the user may need to encrypt at a later stage or that he/she has forgotten to enable encryption before creating the archive,
Thank you!
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Hi.
I would like to see a new feature implemented: a ‘Fast Extract’ Mode.
Currently PowerArchiver extracts files to a temporary directory and then moves them to the target directory chosen by the user. At least via drag and drop.
This can be both time consuming and needs free space on the system drive for large files.
Is there a way to directly extract files to the target directory with PowerArchiver?
And if not, can a feature like this be considered for future updates?Thanks very much!
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Hello.
I believe it would be useful to implement Serpent-256 encryption for PAE/PAE2 formats, even though PowerArchiver offers strong encryption ciphers already.
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Do you think this will be a useful addition?
Thank you for the consideration!
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Hello!
I think it would be a great option to make the portable version of PowerArchiver compatible with PortableApps (i.e. adding the necessary files and folders to integrate it smoothly into their structure).
I own various other commercial programmes which -when installed in portable mode- offer to make the becessary changes without needing an extra installer or the official PortableApps repos.
Thanks for opinions or perhaps even a realization of this.
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Presently, PowerArchiver 2019 (any build) cannot rename PBS filenames by single clicking on such entry or right-click menu has no “Rename” feature!
Hmm, even pressing F2 on selected entry does nothing :(
SQX format support
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Hi,
please add full support for the ‘SQX’ format. It’s a powerfull and free compression format.
http://www.sqx-archiver.orgComparison to other formats (sorry the page is only available in german):
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I can’t vote in this poll :(
You may not vote on this poll
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It seems that the SQX format offers nearly the same compression ratio as 7z and it has some nice features that 7z does not have:
- Internal and external data recovery records
- High speed audio (WAV) compressor
- Real multivolume support
- Multivolume SFX support
- Support for digitally signed archives
- Independent encryption of archive directories
- Archive and file comments
- Updating of solid archives
It can be used free of charge, but it is not open source as 7z. But beside the fact that Ivan Pavlov is the only one who adds new features and fixes bugs that should not be a great disadvantage. ;)
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Continued from http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1437
works the same as every other solid format btw - if you want to update file, whole archive needs to be re-compressed, so basically it is hardly an updating :-). Same goes with extracting files, other files need to be extracted as well.
First of all, it’s not a nice attitude to close every thread if you don’t like it.
It’s correct that the whole archive needs to be re-compressed, but the SQX archiver does it automatically for you. So the user doesn’t need to know if an archive is a solid archive or not.
If you want to update a solid 7z archive you have to extract all files first and then create a new archive with the updated files. For SQX you only have to add the new file(s), SQX archiver extracts the archive to a temp directory and recompress the old files (without the files to be updated) and the new files in one step.
You say that you won’t add another non-open source format. So why you don’t implement this feature for 7z and use the advantages of open source you refer always?
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It seems that the SQX format offers nearly the same compression ratio as 7z and it has some nice features that 7z does not have:
- Internal and external data recovery records
- High speed audio (WAV) compressor
- Real multivolume support
- Multivolume SFX support
- Support for digitally signed archives
- Independent encryption of archive directories
- Archive and file comments
- Updating of solid archives
It can be used free of charge, but it is not open source as 7z. But beside the fact that Ivan Pavlov is the only one who adds new features and fixes bugs that should not be a great disadvantage. ;)
advantage of open source is not that many people can update it, it is that not one person can control it. 5 years from now, if Igor decides that he wont develop 7zip anymore, anyone can still do it. If there is some huge issue that exposes vulnerability of engine, with non-open source, we might not be able to fix it ever, if we dont have the source.
If particular format has no advantages over existing formats, then we will not add it. Why would we? Just to have another format on the check list? That is very confusing for users.
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Continued from http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1437
First of all, it’s not a nice attitude to close every thread if you don’t like it.
It’s correct that the whole archive needs to be re-compressed, but the SQX archiver does it automatically for you. So the user doesn’t need to know if an archive is a solid archive or not.
If you want to update a solid 7z archive you have to extract all files first and then create a new archive with the updated files. For SQX you only have to add the new file(s), SQX archiver extracts the archive to a temp directory and recompress the old files (without the files to be updated) and the new files in one step.
You say that you won’t add another non-open source format. So why you don’t implement this feature for 7z and use the advantages of open source you refer always?
it is an bug thread about bugs, which has been resolved. you can discuss about wishes in this forums. This is why thread has been closed.
we could automatically re-compress 7zip and cab archives, it is not the feature of any particular format but there are few big issues there such as re-compressing anything larger than 10-20 mb might take an huge amount of time and another fact that we cant use old settings such as password as such, which is an security issue, user has to re-enter everything again.
most people would think it is an bug to take an hour to update 10 kb file inside 100 mb archive.
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p.s. there will be an plugin system in PA eventually, so anyone will be able to add their own format (or format they like) to PA :-).
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If particular format has no advantages over existing formats, then we will not add it. Why would we? Just to have another format on the check list? That is very confusing for users.
- Internal and external data recovery records
- High speed audio (WAV) compressor
- Real multivolume support
- Multivolume SFX support
- Support for digitally signed archives
- Archive and file comments
- Updating of solid archives
Hmm, it seems that SQX have many advantages…
we could automatically re-compress 7zip and cab archives, it is not the feature of any particular format but there are few big issues there such as re-compressing anything larger than 10-20 mb might take an huge amount of time and another fact that we cant use old settings such as password as such, which is an security issue, user has to re-enter everything again.
If you could then you should. How often do you create archives larger than 20 mb for daily use?
most people would think it is an bug to take an hour to update 10 kb file inside 100 mb archive.
It takes one hour to extract and recompress an 100 mb archive? Are you still working with Pentium 2 computers? ;)
I just tested it with an 5 mb archive. It took 25 seconds.
p.s. there will be an plugin system in PA eventually, so anyone will be able to add their own format (or format they like) to PA :-).
Nice to read, but when? PA 2008 or earlier? ;)
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if you are using maximum compression, yes it takes a long time. Try at ultra setting for 100 MB file. Now imagine if you will want to use this to update 10 kb text file.
If you are compressing small files, then using some other format like zip is much smarter choice anyway. It is faster, and about billion of computers can extract it. You dont have to download some specific utility in order to read them.
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Nice to read, but when? PA 2008 or earlier? ;)
PA 2008 isnt that far away, but i was hoping sooner. So much work though and troubleshooting. At the same time, you will be able to add any format you wish, which will clear up the wishlist queue :p
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If you are compressing small files, then using some other format like zip is much smarter choice anyway. It is faster, and about billion of computers can extract it. You dont have to download some specific utility in order to read them.
Why it is a smarter choice? Especially for compressing many files solid archives are a big plus. I want to use solid archives and I want to update these archives. A smarter program would make it possible.
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Why it is a smarter choice? Especially for compressing many files solid archives are a big plus. I want to use solid archives and I want to update these archives. A smarter program would make it possible.
Be careful, you wouldn’t want to “stray off topic” again, updating solid archives IS possible in SQX (the topic of this thread) :D
@jowood:You say that you won’t add another non-open source format. So why you don’t implement this feature for 7z and use the advantages of open source you refer always?
Updating solid 7z files has been in wishlist for some time, see
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Why it is a smarter choice? Especially for compressing many files solid archives are a big plus. I want to use solid archives and I want to update these archives. A smarter program would make it possible.
you are right, we just did not want to deal with problems of adding it before. Of course, few nicer words would work even better :-).
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I used a program called Squeez which supports the SQX format.
Compression takes longer than 7-ZIP!
7-ZIP still has the better compression in most of my tests!
When SQX is smaller, the difference is only about 2%.
Ultra compression settings were used.I used a 3 GHz PC, so if something takes long, it’s a problem!
Frankly, 7-ZIP is still the boss!
