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davidsplash last edited by

it would be nice if more formats are avaliable through plugins and we could choose to install them or not. this would mean people who require certain formats are not put off using powerarchiver cause it doesn’t support that format.
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TBGBe last edited by

Already discussed :-
http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111
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davidsplash last edited by @TBGBe

this is true but it has not been implemented, or properly discussed pros and cons.
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New format support
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TBGBe, thanks for the heads-up. Yes, it turns out you can create an archive and make it a self-extracting executable (SFX file), all at the same time, IF you use “SFX Wizard” button. You cannot do so by using the “Add Archive” button, nor can you do it from any of the Shell Extension options. I am glad that the SFX Wizard doesn’t only apply to existing archives, but can also be used to create an archive and make it a SFX file at the same time. However, I would still like to see this ability from the “Add Archive” process or as a Shell Extensions option. The benefit from being able to right/alternate-click on a file, group of files, or folder and create a new archive and make it a SFX file at the same time is obvious. However, why would one want to be able to create a SFX file from within the “Add Archive” process? One simple example is… You started to create a new archive and have named the archive as well and added all of the files/folders you want packaged in the archive. Now, you decide you want to create an SFX file. You don’t want to cancel the process you have already started, start the SFX Wizard and have to redo everything. You would like to be able to “turn on” or “toggle on” the SFX option and PA would automatically change the new archive name from NAME.ARE (where ARE is the archive extension… ZIP, 7Z, CAB, etc) to NAME.EXE. Of course, you could alter the path/name of the new file still and there would now be some SFX applicable options that would appear. If you change your mind again, you could “turn off” or “toggle off” the SFX option and PA would remember the archive type you had selected before (ZIP, 7Z, etc) and change the name of the new archive back to NAME.ARE accordingly. I hope that makes sense to everyone.
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i asked for this before and know its a program thing not a plugin thing. I would like to beable to display the version number of the plugin i have in powerarchiver. If you take a program like irfanview, that uses plugins it can do this feature so why cant powerarchiver.
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Feature / Bug: MSI Plugin Displaying Internal CABs
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The MSI Plug-in currently displays the File table entries AND the .CAB files. In every other archive type, the presence of .CAB files indicates a “Compressed archive”. Those unfamiliar with MSI will not realize that everything in those CAB files is already being displayed as files at the same “level” as the cab files. Technically by seeing the file list from the File table, you are seeing the directory of everything contained in those cabs. They just “happen” to be stored in the MSI as well. Double-clicking a cab file results in a slow and unnecessary extraction of the CAB and then viewing it as it’s own archive. Not only that, but as you hunt for the CAB with the right file, you have to keep doing it for each cab (The .MSI for the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) contains 5 cabs that make up it’s file set - where clicking the file in the file list will find it in the cab for you. I propose that the CABs that are referenced by the MSI media table should not be displayed in the file list. Rather they should be viewed like the “parts of a multipart archive” that should never be in the file view. The fact that the CABs are compressed into the MSI (they are not actually IN the File table, but MSI streams) is a side issue to viewing the “whole MSI as an achive” I hope I am making sense - just didn’t want all the cool work of creating the file list to be lost on people directly rummaging the CABs due to that being the standard operation with all other archive types. Thanks, D.
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Wishlist • • pirrbe

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@pirrbe i would guess we need to expand this to include .pa and make it work without pae… compress & encrypt is an legacy option for when ZIP encryption was poor.
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here is an example of another software program that does a similar thing. Allowing the user to hide/view the news. The only difference i suggest is if a user hide’s the tab it is saved as hidden but there is a default option that can also be stoped which provides the user with a msgbox prompt when new anouncemens are available. Some of us visit the PowerArchiver Site, forums, feeds etc nearly every day, week, month. And have Patchbeam running in the background so the news feeds arnt really of use to us. But a push update prompt as soon as there is something to download or talk about would be a great feature!! you can see where i am going with this!
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Files Format
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Again UHA - http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3797 ARC - do you mean as in “freearc” ? http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3091 QUAD - don’t know this, do you have a link?
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Rar plugin
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Youre right! When PA gets the .rar plugin too (after the now working plugins) the price must be boosted! Then not so many people will buying winRAR but Powerarc and this will be a good deal! Therefore it would be even a good deal when we become the .rar plugin integrated into PA for a little Price boosting…
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UNSOLVED Missing PA compression format in Config to select as default
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Rar plugin
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