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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.
Update that isn't a reinstall
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Any chance of using a more modern update method.
The current system downloads the new installer which when run ignores any of the choices you made in the last installer.
How about either making the installer more ‘intelligent’ or using a more modern automated update method.
Having to run an installer to update an application that i already have installed seems a bit ludicrous.
I dread the ‘update available’ message. Ideally it should update in the background, and if it requires a restart, get me back to where i was before the restart
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The current system downloads the new installer which when run ignores any of the choices you made in the last installer.
This should not happen - except, possibly, when doing “major” updates (e.g. PA 2006 [9.x] -> PA 2007[10.x]). Not sure about this because I didn’t perform that update procedure with the release versions - I was doing BETA testing.
For minor updates (e.g. PA 10.0 -> 10.0.1) the settings should be preserved (if not it is a bug).
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Hi the last update was a minor update but the installer ran from scratch with all the usual check boxes e.g do you want to associate files/add icon etc. etc.
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Hi,
I just came to ask for same thing when I found this topic. Yea, I also think PA really need this, some transparent, best background update process. With 10 serie it’s a bit hot because often updates… -
Hi the last update was a minor update but the installer ran from scratch with all the usual check boxes e.g do you want to associate files/add icon etc. etc.
Yes, it does.
But if you set DeskTop Icon and Queue to same as before - you leave leave the others checked and no changes to your settings are made.
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I think you are thinking of some kind of patch system… problem is that PA is pretty small itself, so there would be no benefit from that.
On the other hand, we would have build different patches for different versions, which will make our life harder and make it slower to update PA.
So once in a while, you will have to endure installation screen, for now :-).
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Yeah, I agree it’s only lazyness from us. But doesn’t MSI package fully support updating process? It can check file versions and replace only needed…
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thats what it does… it keeps all of your original settings and doesnt apply new ones, like it would if it was new installation.
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kk, as I said, just lazyness. :-) It will settle down in time when updates become less often…ty and see ya.
