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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:
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.
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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 :(
U3 yes, but non-U3 portable?
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I really love PowerArchiver, just purchased it. I have been getting into portable apps and I noticed the U3 version. What about a non-U3 version for USB drives akin to Portable Firfox and the other apps at PortableApps.com. I would really like that as I don’t have a U3 drive. Thanks!
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I really love PowerArchiver, just purchased it. I have been getting into portable apps and I noticed the U3 version. What about a non-U3 version for USB drives akin to Portable Firfox and the other apps at PortableApps.com. I would really like that as I don’t have a U3 drive. Thanks!
reason we started with U3, is that they sent us info and drives first. I know there are some other companies creating host apps for USB drives, and we might add support for them later.
Right now we are working on 10.00 and we definetly wont dedicate any time to anything else until we are finished.
Another problem is that every new version requires us to update it as soon as we update PowerArchiver, and right now we have 40 different installations of PowerArchiver to update :-).
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To have PowerArchiver run in portable mode does not require any special drives.
Essentially, portable applications are those that can run without a special installation - no configuration information is stored in the registry - files contain the configuration, and the files are found by searching in reasonable locations until found (something like first look in the USERDATA directory, then look in the directory where the .exe is loaded from).
If PA requires COM components to run, they must be specified in manifest files so that the system can locate them without having them registered in the registry. MSDN has information on how to do this.
Obviously, PA will not be able to be integrated into the explorer shell when run in this mode, but it would still be a useful option.
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To have PowerArchiver run in portable mode does not require any special drives.
Essentially, portable applications are those that can run without a special installation - no configuration information is stored in the registry - files contain the configuration, and the files are found by searching in reasonable locations until found (something like first look in the USERDATA directory, then look in the directory where the .exe is loaded from).
If PA requires COM components to run, they must be specified in manifest files so that the system can locate them without having them registered in the registry. MSDN has information on how to do this.
Obviously, PA will not be able to be integrated into the explorer shell when run in this mode, but it would still be a useful option.
the whole problem is that you wont be able to properly register shell extensions or associations, which is what most of the people use.
But, there is portable host software for U3, which is drive independent, and should do pretty much what U3 does - clean everything before and after portable app is launched.
But of course, end user still has to pay extra for it, so it ends up a lot cheaper to buy U3 drive…
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U3 is a pain.
You can’t add your own apps, only special ones provided by U3 or associated party.As a IT techie, I bought a 2GB U3 stick recently and after trying U3 I had to remove its ‘U3’ ability. It’s too limiting.
There was no way for me to simply add a script or 3rd party app of my choosing.
I now just use Pstart.exe to setup my apps in a nice panel.
U3 is doomed imho if it doesn’t document to non-commercial users like myself how to add a program of my to it.
So I’d like to see a PortableApps version thank you very much. 7zp do a zip portableApps version…. ;-)
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I’d like to bring up that topic again:
What are the current plans for a portable version?Today we got the new version, but I won’t even consider spending money for the upgrade unless ther is a portable version! For that however I would gladly pay even the full price again!
Wouldn’t it have been a better choice to spend some time developing a portable version instead of integrating new features that other programs can do better anyway?
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@Ice:
I’d like to bring up that topic again:
What are the current plans for a portable version?Today we got the new version, but I won’t even consider spending money for the upgrade unless ther is a portable version! For that however I would gladly pay even the full price again!
Wouldn’t it have been a better choice to spend some time developing a portable version instead of integrating new features that other programs can do better anyway?
what portable version? Any or U3? U3 is coming again, as many of our users use it (many of USB drives currently sold are U3 compatible)…
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p.s. any portable version would be free of charge to current PA users, you certainly wouldnt have to pay extra for it…
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Well, first thanks for your answer!!!
“portable” just means a program that you don’t have to install and that consists of just one file (as described in the first post)!
And I know I wouldn’t have to pay extra for a portable version, I just wanted to say that I was willing to because such a version is really important to me!
Just hink about it:
What do you usually use archives for?
You use them to transport data!
And to unpack those files you need some application on every computer you want to use that data on, so a portable version REALLY makes sense!
How could you not offer such a version?!?I REALLY like PowerArchiver, but I have to use 7zip-portable on other computers, so that naturally makes me think about only using the latter…
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@Ice:
Well, first thanks for your answer!!!
“portable” just means a program that you don’t have to install and that consists of just one file (as described in the first post)!
And I know I wouldn’t have to pay extra for a portable version, I just wanted to say that I was willing to because such a version is really important to me!
Just hink about it:
What do you usually use archives for?
You use them to transport data!
And to unpack those files you need some application on every computer you want to use that data on, so a portable version REALLY makes sense!
How could you not offer such a version?!?I REALLY like PowerArchiver, but I have to use 7zip-portable on other computers, so that naturally makes me think about only using the latter…
i understand what you want… thats why wishlist forum is for. We will check it out for one of the future versions, we will still support U3 as thats what many people request through support pages.
thanks,
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I also wish there will be a portable version.
But I would prefer if you don’t do it as an U3 version, because this will limit the use to only some USB devices. If you would create one package like they do at portableapps.com you could use it with every device.
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we will see what happens, you guys will be getting at least one of these versions… and maybe both (eventuall)…
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i have already used powerarchiver on a usb stick without it being u3 the only part i have and the only thing it does not give me is shell extensions but that doesn’t matter. just install to usb and register as normaly and it should work ok on a usb with out shell extensions
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Please make a version for PortableApps. U3 is insufficient.
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Now, since the new version 11 has been released and since U3 is more or less obsolete:
Is there a portable version of PowerArchiver?!?!
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not right now, but we will make one i guess :-)