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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.
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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.
Basically, the aim is:
What do you want in 2009?
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Happy New 2009!
We are working hard on 11.5 update for you guys to be released before PA 2010…
Naturally, we want some input on what features do you want us to implement… So pick features you want and let us know with your vote!
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Unfortunately, I think PPMD (and probably LZMA) in ZIP are unwanted but can’t be avoided - if only to stop the “silly” comparisons ( NN’s Zip is better than PA’s Zip) :mad:
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think Unicode is a must have to also support non-western fonts. all the other stufff are nice to have options.
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I think that it would be great to implement JPEG Compression and keep in line with the competition! StuffIT have been doing this for sometime and it comes it very handy. Winzip also have just taken it on in their new vesion.
Now with PowerArchiver 2009 new features including a preview pane it would be great to archive Family photos and view them in compressed format.
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JPEG are already compressed. There is no big benefit, if compressed images are compressed again in a zip file. inversely there is a higher risk, if a big image archive on a cd-rom is damaged, to loose all images than if you would just store the images separately on a cd
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any of the new methods included in zip would be standard compliant and compatible with zip standards - so you would be able to open other archives created with same zip specifications.
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JPEG are already compressed. There is no big benefit, if compressed images are compressed again in a zip file. inversely there is a higher risk, if a big image archive on a cd-rom is damaged, to loose all images than if you would just store the images separately on a cd
that would depend if you see 20-30% as big benefit or not :-). On CD, 20%-30% is extra 200 MB of pictures… My family pictures archive is 15 GB which means 3-5 GB of saved space on whatever backup medium I use.
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This depends of the reason why you want to implement these things (Really want to make some useful features or just for business purposes).
I don’t see any use of this.Just stop copying WinZIP. It is NOT the best archiver.
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When I need to make a zip file and send it to someone I use Windows’ “Compressed zipped folders” or… WR (sorry, but you should take this one as an example instead). I don’t want to spend my time to make sure witch checkboxes should I use to make my archive compatible with everything. All these “Advanced” zip features should be supported as read-only. IMHO.
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btw, do you really compress your pictures? and then extract them all the time to view? …
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@NTFS:
btw, do you really compress your pictures? and then extract them all the time to view? …
it does not matter what me or you do… what matters is what general public does.
How do you backup pictures? If you use 7zip, you still need compatible archiver thats not supported by Windows Compressed Folder.
I mean if 30% is not good enough, why use archiver at all? Just copy and paste everything, it is faster :-).
Besides, implementing decompression is 95% of work for implementing compression… so for us, it is all the same, we already did the work… if you want to use it, you can, if you dont, you dont have to…
And I said million times before, having bz2, ppmd, lzma and jpeg in zip is for me worst thing ever. However we are just drop in the sea, and other people are making zip standards, not us. And those people have 100x the downloads than we do… So we can be stubborn and not support it (which hurts only us, as their users will not use us due to inability to support their files), or we can do it better than them, and still be standard compliant :-).
After few years of being stubborn, we decided that we can do it better than them (or anyone else), and let the users decide if they want to use old zip 2.0 compatible features, or latest zip standards…
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JPG compression & Multicore support sounds good to me. I would really like to see performance in starting PA and reading large/spanned archives.
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JPG compression & Multicore support sounds good to me. I would really like to see performance in starting PA and reading large/spanned archives.
there is not much that can be done with regards to speeding up extraction/opening via multicore… main gain would be 2x faster zip compression… of 4x… or 8x, depending on what kind of cpu you have.
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Application launch time? Anything associated with the words faster, performance, quick is all a plus in my book :D
Whatever 2009 brings, I know it will be great!
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I would really like to see performance in starting PA and reading large/spanned archives.
I agree with this. This would be great. It also takes a few seconds for the preview to kick in.
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I would like it to be able to cook me breakfast, make my bed, and pay all my bills.
But, if you can’t add that, I wouldn’t mind seeing an increase in the speed in compression/extraction.
Just my 2 cents.
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I would like it to be able to cook me breakfast, make my bed, and pay all my bills.
But, if you can’t add that, I wouldn’t mind seeing an increase in the speed in compression/extraction.
Just my 2 cents.
:-).
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I would like it to be able to cook me breakfast, make my bed…
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pay all my bills …
and increase in the speed in compression/extraction.Cooking and bed-making :- that’s just being silly.
But the rest is needed and no need to sacrifice one for the rest (I really need something to pay my bills for me) :p -
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and it gets an bump!
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A nice feature to have would be the ability to Lock the Configuration screen down with a Password to stop others from viewing and changing the settings unless authorised on both stand alone computers and networked systems.
The implication that also allowed the users/administrator to extract all his/her settings in a file type being txt or INI so it could be imported into another PowerArchiver would be a nice feature also an option to encrypt the file so its unreadable!
This would mean you can manage a large number of computers with PA which others cant dabble around with and they all meet to the exact specs you or the business requires.
So things like the defaulted Encryption Type, PA’s Queuing system, Password Manager, File formats and if the program updates it self are set in stone and unviewable from those un aurthorised to see them.
This would be an ideal Professional Feature only!
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Is it possible to enable UAC when opening the configuration screen?
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It would be nice if PA had “Auto Associate on Launch”
For example say I ask PowerArchiver to associate with all fle type and another program gets installed and removes away a certain file association.
Normally PA on the next launch would ask to re associate which you would say yes or no.
However, it would be nice if PA would force associations automatically either on windows startup or Launch of the application if asked todo so. Ensuring that the user is allways using PA for the types originally stated.
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@Sir:
A nice feature to have would be the ability to Lock the Configuration screen down with a Password to stop others from viewing and changing the settings unless authorised on both stand alone computers and networked systems.
The implication that also allowed the users/administrator to extract all his/her settings in a file type being txt or INI so it could be imported into another PowerArchiver would be a nice feature also an option to encrypt the file so its unreadable!
This would mean you can manage a large number of computers with PA which others cant dabble around with and they all meet to the exact specs you or the business requires.
So things like the defaulted Encryption Type, PA’s Queuing system, Password Manager, File formats and if the program updates it self are set in stone and unviewable from those un aurthorised to see them.
This would be an ideal Professional Feature only!
thats already there for customers with more than 10 licenses, they get separate set of instructions.
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Cheers spywolf! It would still be a nice feature to have on a single computer as it would stop others users from changing prefered settings?
Would this information be available for those with 10 or less licenses if requested?
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other users can not change your own settings… just use different accounts? or you mean you dont want them changing defaults? In that case, PM me.
we dont publish the info because it is usually used by people who dont pay for licenses in larger companies.
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Cheers Spwolf
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My only wish is a very simple one, and I hope it’s easy enough to add:
