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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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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. -
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 :(
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Please add support for ownCloud / Nextcloud, thanks.
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There needs to be a setting for the backup feature to set how many backup files to keep.
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SVG files (scalable vector graphics) seem to be special XML files and therefore when added to .pa archives I think they should be compressed as if they were text files.
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Hi,
I had a look at the command line switches, but there are no switches to change the startup mode.
At the moment, PowerArchiver opens in the last used mode.
Opening PowerArchiver from Start Menu or Desktop: Start in Explorer Mode Opening PowerArchiver by double clicking an archive: Start PowerArchiver in Archive Mode
I’d like to have command line switches to influence the startup mode.
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OT: A while back I requested that moving up and down in an archive’s folder structure could be considered to work with a mouse’s forward and back buttons like windows explorer does. It is so automatic for me I still try to use them with PA first before realising I have to double-click on the two dots. Can this be done?
by @drteeth
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I know CRC32 was the standard for checking the integrity of compressed files but it is not really used anymore. Can you add ones that are used now MD5 or SHA?
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Opening the ‘Backup’ I still wonder how PA is ordering the files.
It’s not by name, not by last run…
Is it not possible to have them ordered by NAME (default).
Now you have to click on Name to have a meaning overview. If you jump to ‘archive’ and back to ‘backup’, they are again disordered0_1523006481222_7f290e95-2f9a-4c85-bdc1-d8ba0831b91f-image.png
Thx.
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!
