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    • Support for Zstandard .zst/.zstd archives

      Z

      It would be nice to be able to at least extract Zstandard archives.

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    • Highlighting files and folders in Add modes

      PA_Fan

      I prefer to use light themes, and when, for example, I have set up my main archive screen to be Classic Toolbar with Blizzard Blue, files in the archive are highlighted (no checkboxes, full row select) with white text on grey background. They are easy to see .

      However, in the Add screens, the files and folders are black type upon a pale blue background, which is not so readily visible, especially when highlighting separate files in lists with Ctrl/Click for addition. It would be ideal if the backgrounds to files in these screens could be set to mimic the highlighting of those in the main archive window.

      I have tried experimenting with different themes and settings for skins, toolbars and so forth, but, unless I’ve missed something, none seem to give me the effect I want.

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    • .BH in Windows 11 Context Menu

      C

      Re: Windows 11 Context menu support

      It would really make me happy if you put .BH in the Windows 11 context menu. I know it’s in the “More Options” section, but this would make it more convenient. Don’t know why the option to add it to the menu isn’t there in the first place. P-L-E-A-S-E ??? :) Thanks You!

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    • paq9a support

      R

      Any chance of including this format in a future release?

      https://github.com/FS-make-simple/paq9a

      Exceptional compression levels.

      Thanks.

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    • Windows Store Delivery (and ideally updates)

      TheAndyMac

      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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    • What features do you want in new format?

      spwolf

      Tell us what features you want from new format…

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    • Windows 11 Context menu support

      BigMike

      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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    • OneDrive for Business support

      Z

      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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    • Better handling for protected archives

      BigMike

      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.

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    • ZIPX: Add support for packing JPEG with specialized algorithm

      A

      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?
      Thanks!

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    • Better archive type handling with drag & drop

      BigMike

      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.

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    • Elevation of UAC in Mounting Images

      F

      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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    • Bulkzip Nanozip (.nz) file format

      D

      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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    Small Wishlist for PA2007 ;]

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    • ?
      Guest last edited by

      I would like to suport this archive formats in PowerArchiver 2007 (because other archivers support this)

      full support (compression & decompression)(if not add only decompression):

      .7z (add dictionary size 100-900KB for BZip2, and for PPMd add dictionary size 1-1536MB and word size 2-32 words, and for LZMA add dictionary size 64KB-128MBMB and word size 8-273 words like in 7-Zip 4.43 archiver) (and add add BCJ2 compression method like IZArc 3.6.1260)

      .ace (with dictionary size 32-4096K, use Ace 2.0 & create soild archive like WinAce 2.65 or Squeez)

      **
      .bh** (add compression method Deflate, Fuse and BZ2 like IZArc 3.6.1260)

      .bza (IZArc 3.6.1260 support this, with method BZA and GZA)
      .cab (add compression method Quantium like IZArc 3.6.1260)

      .cpio (7-Zip 4.43 & TUGZip 3.4.0.0 & IZArc 3.6.1260 support this) http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/cpio.html

      .dgc (better than .zip)
      http://www.emit.jp/dgca/dgca_e.html
      **
      .jar** (with SFX like WinAce 2.65 & Squeez)

      .kgb (better compression than .7z, add options to SFX archive)
      http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/?lang=en
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/kgbarchiver/

      .ice (Produced by ICEOWS program)
      http://www.iceows.com/

      .lzh (add SFX)
      **
      .hki** & .hki1 & .hki2 & .hki3 (add SFX too)
      http://www.winhki.com/en/winhki1.htm

      .rar (add SFX and soild archive & advenced compression options (text&audio (channels&true color) &delta&32and64bit executable compression, dictionary size 64-4096KB, use memory, prodiction order) like WinRAR 3.61 & Squeez

      .rk (another better compression than .7z)
      http://www.msoftware.co.nz/

      .paq6, .paq7, .paq8 and variants (another better compression than .7z)
      http://www.cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/

      .pim (another better compression than .7z)
      http://www.encode.ru/

      .sqx (add SFX,dictionary size 32-4096kB, multimedia & EXE compression, soild archive, TUGZip 3.4.0.0 & Squeez support this)
      http://www.sqx-archiver.org/download.html

      .uha (another better compression than .7z)
      ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/uharc06b.zip
      http://www.klaimsoft.com/winuha/
      http://filecompress.altervista.org/
      http://www.brhack.net/

      .tbz (TUGZip 3.4.0.0 & IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .tgz (TUGZip 3.4.0.0 support this)

      .yz1 (TUGZip 3.4.0.0 & IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .zip (add dictionary size 100-900KB for BZip2, and for Deflete & Deflate64 add dictionary size 32KB and word size 8-258 words, like in 7-Zip 4.43 archiver)

      .zz
      http://debin.net/zzip/download.php#zzip

      only decompression:
      .a & .ar & .lib (TUGZip 3.4.0.0 & IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .alz
      http://www.estsoft.com/en
      http://www.altools.net/
      http://www.altools.net/ALTools/ALZip/tabid/53/Default.aspx
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/53042144@N00

      .bfl (game pack)

      .c2d (image(TUGZip 3.4.0.0 & IZArc 3.6.1260 support this))

      .cbz (Rar archive (TUGZip 3.4.0.0 support this))

      .cdi (IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .cpt
      http://www.cyclos.com/compactpro.htm

      .dar
      http://dar.linux.free.fr/
      http://kdar.sourceforge.net/

      .deb ((Debian packes) 7-Zip 4.43 & TUGZip 3.4.0.0 & IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .dmg (disk image in Mac OS “Safari extracter”)

      .ear & .war (java archives (TUGZip 3.4.0.0 & IZArc 3.6.1260 support this))

      .gca (TUGZip 3.4.0.0 & IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .gza (IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .ha (IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)
      -ha 0.99 (improved PPMC - 4th order Markov modeling)
      ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/
      ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/compress/ha0999p-linux.tar.gz

      .imp (TUGZip 3.4.0.0 support this)

      .ize (IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .j (Jar archive)

      .lzs

      .lzx
      http://xavprods.free.fr/lzx/
      http://main.aminet.net/misc/unix/unlzx.c.gz
      http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php
      http://www.convertlit.com/

      .mbf (IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .mdf (IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .pak (IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)
      -pak for MSDOS (LZW algorithm)
      ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/arcers/pak251.exe
      ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/

      .partimg
      http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page

      .pdi (IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .pk2 & .pa4 ((Quake archives)7-Zip 4.43 support this)

      .rpm ((Red Hat packes) 7-Zip 4.43 & IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .s7z
      http://sixtyfive.xmghosting.com/

      .sit & .sitx & .pf & .image & .sea (StuffIt X - archive)
      http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/tex/CTAN/archive-tools/unstuff/
      ftp://mac.archive.umich.edu/mac/utilities/compressionapps/
      ftp://ftp.scruz.net/users/aladdin/public/

      .sqz -Squeeze for MSDOS (do not confuse with other ‘squeeze’ above) LZ77 with hashing. ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/arcers/sqz1083e.exe
      ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/

      .?q? -Squeeze for MSDOS (do not confuse with other ‘squeeze’ above above ;p).
      Static Huffman coding. ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/starter/ (squeeze) (unsqueeze)

      .tz (IZArc 3.6.1260 support this)

      .tzs (TUGZip 3.4.0.0 support this)

      .xef (WinAce 2.65 support this)

      .uif (CD image)

      .qda (game data)

      Please add this all :p

      I want that PA will be the best and more powerfull Compression Tool in the world.

      Sorry for my bad English ;)

      /Virtual_ManPL

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      • TBGBe
        TBGBe last edited by

        @Virtual_ManPL:

        Sorry for my bad English

        Well, you could start with the PowerArchiver help files or even the features page -
        http://www.powerarchiver.com/features/
        and you would see that most of the popular ones you list are already supported. Of the popular ones that are missing - they are propriety and require licensing (e.g. ace, rar, sit compression).

        For the other non-supported formats, please could you explain WHY that particular format should be supported. If you have a specific private need - then use the format specific utility.
        Experimental and Beta formats should NOT be supported by a commercial product (rk, paq variants etc).
        It is not accurate (or even useful) to say XX supports more formats than YY - so XX is better.

        Note: a lot of “game formats” are actually just zip files :D

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          Guest @TBGBe last edited by

          @TBGBe:

          […] Of the popular ones that are missing - they are propriety and require licensing (e.g. ace, rar, sit compression).

          OK. I know, but decompression tool for sit it free (I think) ;)
          Here you have source code for it :cool: http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/tex/CTAN/archive-tools/unstuff/

          @TBGBe:

          For the other non-supported formats, please could you explain WHY that particular format should be supported. If you have a specific private need - then use the format specific utility.

          I want advenced compression options for

          .7z
          (add dictionary size 100-900KB for BZip2, and for PPMd add dictionary size 1-1536MB and word size 2-32 words, and for LZMA add dictionary size 64KB-128MBMB and word size 8-273 words and add BCJ2 compression method like IZArc 3.6.1260)

          because I choose the best method compresion,dictionary&word size for me

          .bh (add choose compression method Deflate, Fuse and BZ2) like above

          .cab (add Quantium method) sometimes better than LZX

          .jar because I dont want to rename about one hundred packes to .zip ;)

          .kgb (add options to SFX archive) (much better compression than .7z)(best in the wolrd :D)
          http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/?lang=en
          http://sourceforge.net/projects/kgbarchiver/


          see it :D
          only medium, but it have Extreme nad Maximum Compresion :p
          http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/en/tests.php

          .lzh (add SFX, because its usefull thing)

          .pim (another better compression than .7z, have very high compression ratio for media formats, and its very usefull)
          http://www.encode.ru/

          .sqx (add SFX,dictionary size 32-4096kB, multimedia & EXE compression, soild archive, TUGZip 3.4.0.0 & Squeez support this) (good compresion for data and media files)
          http://www.sqx-archiver.org/download.html

          .uha (another better compression than .7z)
          ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/uharc06b.zip
          http://www.klaimsoft.com/winuha/
          http://filecompress.altervista.org/
          http://www.brhack.net/

          .yz1 (good compression for images in .jpg)

          .zz (better than .zip and .rar)
          http://debin.net/zzip/download.php#zzip

          @TBGBe:

          Experimental and Beta formats should NOT be supported by a commercial product (rk, paq variants etc).
          It is not accurate (or even useful) to say XX supports more formats than YY - so XX is better.

          I dont know that, the .rk and .paq is beta formats :p

          @TBGBe:

          Note: a lot of “game formats” are actually just zip files :D

          Good to hear that :D

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          • ivan
            ivan conexware @Guest last edited by

            For version 10.00 you are able to create decompression plugins for formats (e.g. .sit, .kgb, .rk and so on) not supported by PA.

            For future version - we will probably have support for compression plugins:)

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            • spwolf
              spwolf conexware last edited by

              p.s. doesnt KGB take like an month to compress 100 MB of data? You could go on vacation and when you come back,it still wouldnt be done :-)

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                RJWaring @spwolf last edited by

                I installed KGB Commpression Utility and I was amazed how slow and poor it was on compressing files! and no way did it beat 7z!

                I had it for a day and uninstalled it! and no way would I recommend or ask PA to include such a code to be implemented.

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                • TBGBe
                  TBGBe @RJWaring last edited by

                  JAR - Isn’t this already supported (Java Archives)?
                  SQX - Plug-in supported by PA 2007(10) format exists
                  UHA, ZZ - Still beta
                  BH, CAB, YZ1 - Format no longer under development
                  PIM - Don’t know this and your link isn’t working (for me).
                  7z - If you need that variety of setting use 7-zip, PA only needs to offer most generally useful (e.g. best speed or max compression).
                  Note: 7z SFX is in PA 2007(10)
                  KGB - Again, could/should be done via plug-in, if someone wants to create one :p

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                  • spwolf
                    spwolf conexware last edited by

                    there is nothing wrong with having gazillion formats… thats why there will be plugins :-).

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                      Guest @spwolf last edited by

                      OK, my mistake, I add too much shi… (bad;))&old formats :p (yes KGB is veryyyyy slowww :eek:, in the maximum compression)

                      .7z OWNS!!! :D

                      but genaraly I only want that, the PA use in the best compression ratio (Ultra method) in .7z format

                      method compression: LZMA (I think PA already use this:p)
                      dictionary size: 64KB - 128MB for dictionary (PA choose the max mem in my comp, I know that 128MB dictionary use 1375MB for compression)
                      word size: 273 words (for best compression ratio, but I dont know how many PA have this)

                      because I test 7Zip 4.43 (LZMA,64MB dictionary_,273 words,soild archive) and PA2006 9.63.02(Ultra,soild)
                      and I saw that, the 7Zip 4.43 better compresed .7z format (1,5%).
                      I test 708MB with data,pictures(jpg,bmp),music(mp3,wav),some video clips

                      Please change this options for better compresion ratio like 7Zip:D_

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                        deity @Guest last edited by

                        @Virtual_ManPL:

                        OK, my mistake, I add too much shi… (bad;))&old formats :p (yes KGB is veryyyyy slowww :eek:, in the maximum compression)

                        .7z OWNS!!! :D

                        but genaraly I only want that, the PA use in the best compression ratio (Ultra method) in .7z format

                        method compression: LZMA (I think PA already use this:p)
                        dictionary size: 64KB - 128MB for dictionary (PA choose the max mem in my comp, I know that 128MB dictionary use 1375MB for compression)
                        word size: 273 words (for best compression ratio, but I dont know how many PA have this)

                        because I test 7Zip 4.43 (LZMA,64MB dictionary_,273 words,soild archive) and PA2006 9.63.02(Ultra,soild)
                        and I saw that, the 7Zip 4.43 better compresed .7z format (1,5%).
                        I test 708MB with data,pictures(jpg,bmp),music(mp3,wav),some video clips

                        Please change this options for better compresion ratio like 7Zip:D

                        in PA help
                        Things to know about 7-Zip (and its shortcomings)

                        Due to its strong compression settings, 7-Zip at Ultra setting will take up a large amount of memory - 369 MB (34 MB for decompression)! If you use 7-Zip’s Maximum compression setting, memory usage will go down to 84 MB (10 MB for decompression) and if you use Normal setting, 7-Zip will use 27 MB of your memory and need only 4 MB for decompression.
                        –-------------------------
                        Hmm…I think PA use small dictionary for better compability with old PC …
                        And you can use large dictionary size in 7-zip if use virtual memory(pagefile)_

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