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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.) -
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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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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?
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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.
Filter Enhancement Suggestion
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PowerArchiver Backup Express Lite is a terrific solution for what we need… an automated way to back stuff up, simply and quickly. However, there’s one nagging thing about it that bugs me. I can’t filter specific directories, just files. I’ll explain.
As a developer myself, I routinely back up our source code. The problem is our source code is littered with compiler build and debug information that, since it gets generated at every build, doesn’t need to be stored in the archive and just takes up space, and in a lot of cases stores redundant files wasting even more.
As an example, when just selecting our source code directory, the size is close to 4 or 5 megs. When excluding directories named BIN or OBJ–the specific directoris that I’m referrign to, it’s only around 500K (0.5 megs!) or one-tenth the size and that’s BEFORE compression! Allowing us to specifically exclude all directories named ‘BIN’ or ‘OBJ’ but include everything else would give us what we want.
Actually, if you could add the ability to filter folders right from the main create archive screens (i.e. just using the reg. tool instead of having to use PABEL, that would be a bonus!
Another, and related idea is that instead of having the ‘all things’ approach with the ‘Include Subfolders’ option, just make the list of items to include a treeview instead of a list where the top-level items are either files or folders that you’ve manually added (as you have it now) but if an item is a folder, you can expand it to manually select/unselect it’s subfolders. Basically a pseudo ‘checked explorer view’ for each item that’s a folder. Then add a button and/or context menu to ‘select/unselect/toggle’ a folder’s items and all it’s children. Simple! Sweet!
While the latter would be a pretty big re-write, the former of allowing us to filter folders too instead of just files one would imagine wouldn’t be too hard to implement.
So… any takers? Anyone else agree?
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This configuration could be useful, but is probably too complex for an “Express Lite” tool.
However, there have been rumours of a new PA backup utility coming - maybe enhanced filtering will be possible when that tool is available?
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Could you reorganise your environment to keep your source and object/bin directories completely seperate? This is what I did.
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Disable the “include subdirectories” and explicitly select the folders you want to back-up. As this is stored in a “script” (the pbs file), it only has to be configured once. I do this now to exclude temp or cache files etc.
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