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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:
Tell me, that the password was wrong and give me the chance to enter the correct password to decrypt the archive. -
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.
More info on the format, seems simpler than I thought: https://quakewiki.org/wiki/.pak -
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.
PowerArchiver 9.50.26 File / Find Archives badly broken
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The “File / Find Archives” functionality is not working and there is missing functionality that would help diagnose the error/issue.
Enhancement request. First, it would be very helpful to be able to point the “find archives” at a specific folder to “recurse” down rather than at the whole computer or a specific archive.
Bug. My version doesn’t allow me to point to a specific drive, the drop down where the drive is supposed to be is blank and the drop down menu contain no entries.
Bug. I pointed the find files to search the whole PC. It found a handful of archives when I known from a thorough file by file directory listing that there are at least 155 archives of types ZIP GZ TAR and Z. Huge data integrity issue here, folks.
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I have never used this feature, but now I tried it.
@sf_flyboy:Bug. My version doesn’t allow me to point to a specific drive, the drop down where the drive is supposed to be is blank and the drop down menu contain no entries.
Confirmed.
“File - Find Archives - Search only drive”
Same in both Classic and Explorer View.Bug. I pointed the find files to search the whole PC. It found a handful of archives when I known from a thorough file by file directory listing that there are at least 155 archives of types ZIP GZ TAR and Z.
Not confirmed.
In my case it quickly found over 800 archives, before I stopped it. {7z, Cab, Zip, ISO, Tar, bz2}
Edit: From Help file -
“PowerArchiver will search for all formats it supports”
So I guess this could mean only archive types, you have associated with PA ?Note: when stopped, it displayed the results in a window titled “Favorite Folders” :confused:
Edit: OOPS - This is correct - see help file.By the way, could this ‘Found results window’ be made resizable please?
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It’s high likely that there are some “file type association” things going on. I’ll check <br />that . I was uninstalling and installing various alternatives to PA all day. I’m trying to search a dataset of 100,000+ files and PA is the only partial solution to use for this application. My motivation:<br /><br />1. There’s no way to automatically delete archive files that have been expanded<br /> as opposed to those archive files that may have been nested in other archive <br /> files and not yet expanded themselves. (Back to DOS script files, UGH!)<br /><br />2. Many archive files contain other archive files and PA does not expand recursively<br /> in one pass. (About 10% go a second pass, about 5% of them to a third pass)<br /> The data volumes in some of these situations are significant for me.<br /><br />3. There is not a way to expand the contents of the archive in the folder in which the <br /> archive is located AND automatically rename files that share the same name to <br /> limit path “length growth”. This otherise results in the loss of 75% of my original <br /> data if I try to expand archives without expanding the archive filepath structure.<br /> Not a great alternative.<br /><br /> Note: If I try to expand WITH the orginal path, I occasionally run into total path <br /> length issues > 255. PA emits incorrect error messages and doesn’t necessarily <br /> understand that something bad has happened. A prescreening function that <br /> checked and genarated a “check log” would be extremely helpful. Otherwise,<br /> I have to do this manually using Excel spreadsheets.<br /><br />4. Logging is not sufficient to track the number of original archive files, track the <br /> files that were expanded from each, including situations where there are multiple<br /> levels of nested archives. What would be helpful would be:<br /><br /> Tab-indented archive format that could be imported into Microsoft Access or Excel:<br /><br /> <timestamp> <action> <nesting level, 0-n> <loose filepath+filename> <br /> <archive filepath+filename><br /> <br /> Where action would include terms such as “extracted” “deleted” <added><br /> etc.
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Note: when stopped, it displayed the results in a window titled “Favorite Folders” :confused:
Edit: OOPS - This is correct - see help file.By the way, could this ‘Found results window’ be made resizable please?
It is awkward with both long filenames and long pathnames.yea, I agree.
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Drop down issue is fixed in final release :-).
I am moving rest to the wishlist.
thanks!
