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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:
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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.
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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.
(deleted part advertising other software - admin)
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 :(
What format next? December 2009
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I am writing an blog entry where you will be able to select what format you want next to be added in PA.
Need a list of suggestions to be added.
Some suggested so far are:
- 7zip LZMA2
- ISO (UDF, not supported now)
- MSI
- EPUB (variant of zip format for publishing books)
…. more?
Add your suggestions as soon as you can. We will make an blog post about it and you will be able to vote.
p.s. everyone with forum account can automatically comment and vote on blogs, it is all integrated!
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Required for possting suggestion is that there is an thread with better explanation on forums, and you can refference it here…. if there is no thread for format you want, create it and then refference it here!
thanks!
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Is there any restriction for implementation or can we request full (both extraction and compression) support?
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extraction first…
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i wont bite i promise ;-)
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Sorry, mis-read your post and was waiting for blog before voting.
Seems you want additional suggestions for your blog so:-
SQX (but NOT without recovery record support :p )
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need more suggestions before we select what will be votable ;-)
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“keep broken files” on rar.
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thats the spirit ;-)
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Simple binary splits with extensions 001, 002, etc. Only joining is fine.
I know it’s not an archive, but 7-zip can join them, so why not.
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Simple binary splits with extensions 001, 002, etc. Only joining is fine.
I know it’s not an archive, but 7-zip can join them, so why not.
you mean HJSplit? If so, a +1 for me.
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you mean HJSplit? If so, a +1 for me.
That seems to be the most popular “graphical” tool. The good old DOS command is as follows:
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peachy! more, more!
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so far:
- 7zip LZMA2
- ISO (UDF, not supported now)
- MSI
- “keep broken files” on rar.
- Join split files (ie HJ Split)
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Sorry, mis-read your post and was waiting for blog before voting.
Seems you want additional suggestions for your blog so:-
SQX (but NOT without recovery record support :p )
NRG (disk format)vetoed SQX, as to the NRG, they are not supported right now? Or is there something new now?
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faster extraction of .IMG files
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you mean HJSplit? If so, a +1 for me.
O man that would be great if PowerArchiver could do what “HJSplit” does!! :)
Also “Keep Broken Files” for RAR would kick ass!
Please add both of these options soon!!!
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Option to remove PowerArchiver right click context menus from the Start Menu and All Programs menu!!
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And my number 1 request is just too make everything about PowerArchiver FASTER!!!
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i will let you self moderate above two posts - this is the thread about specific issue - what format next in PA. This is not mother of all threads about PA. If you have additional wish, post it in its own thread but first look for other similar threads (both above already have them).
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vetoed SQX,…
Hello, because you vetoed SQX. I’d like to know why. I know i can add this Format via the TotalSQX plugin. But native i think would be better because you could also Implement the Compression in this Format (later) easyly. Or if you don’t want to add this format directly you could in one of the next versions extend the Plugin-Interface to allow the creation via the Plugin (witch the plugin allows). you just had to create a button were you could configure the settings.
Best Regards,
TWPhoenix
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R. Landscheidt -
Hello, because you vetoed SQX. I’d like to know why. I know i can add this Format via the TotalSQX plugin. But native i think would be better because you could also Implement the Compression in this Format (later) easyly. Or if you don’t want to add this format directly you could in one of the next versions extend the Plugin-Interface to allow the creation via the Plugin (witch the plugin allows). you just had to create a button were you could configure the settings.
Best Regards,
TWPhoenix
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R. Landscheidtwe are extending the plugin interface in one of the future versions ;-).
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we are extending the plugin interface in one of the future versions ;-).
Hello, thanks thats good to know. so i wait paitient for this update an compress my Files in SQX with the last Squeez Version or with WinRAR as RAR for sending per E-Mail. Because i really really like the Recovery Records and the Digital Signed Archives (especially for e-mail transfer) Or Wait for 7zip to implement these features. ;-)
Best Regards,
TWPhoenix
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R. Landscheidt
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Is Squeez discontinued? I can’t find its page.
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Is Squeez discontinued? I can’t find its page.
you referring to this ?…
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sorry…my mistake…:(
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Is Squeez discontinued? I can’t find its page.
Yes. Sadly. Here are some infos:
http://blog.speedproject.de/2009/08/22/ein-teufelskreis/ (German Only - Sorry i found only Information Availible in German)But you can still download the Latest Version via the Update Page (http://www.speedproject.de/support/updates.html).
But you can’t buy the codes for this anymore.But the Compression Engines are also in SpeedCommander.
So you can still use the SQX Compression and the Other Compression Formats.Best Regards,
TWPhoenix
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R. Landscheidt
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I would like to see 7zip support put as a command line plugin so it is always up to date with the latest 7zip specification some other archivers do this why not powerarchiver
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I would like to see 7zip support put as a command line plugin so it is always up to date with the latest 7zip specification some other archivers do this why not powerarchiver
you want 7zip to be command line? That makes no sense… we dont have support for lzma2 yet, because it is not in its finalized form. We can not offer it before Igor tells us it is safe to do so.
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it makes sense to have it commandline so we can choose and test the beta version of 7zip from within powerarchiver.
Means a lot less work for you and gives you more time to add other features.
waiting for something to become final leaves you behind the competitors who have a command line 7zip add in
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it makes sense to have it commandline so we can choose and test the beta version of 7zip from within powerarchiver.
What’s the difference between this and directly using the 7-zip command line?
waiting for something to become final leaves you behind the competitors who have a command line 7zip add in
What are those competitors? Maybe this will help us understand what you are talking about.
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What’s the difference between this and directly using the 7-zip command line?
What are those competitors? Maybe this will help us understand what you are talking about.
i would guess that competitors are those who dont know how to build their own dll interface so they have to use command line ;-).
regardless, it is not something for PA, we are not experimental compression application.
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NSIS, InnoSetup extraction?
Vote for .msi
Happy Holidays!
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sretni blagdani serhiy!
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Sretni Blagdani Drazen!
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Since I don’t speak Croatian (guessing it is Croatian), I will just say happy holidays!
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I vote for the EPUB format.
It’s already implemented in PA, but there is no explorer command to open the archive. Also, I need to arrange the files inside the EPUB/ZIP archive. This is important for the epub verification. Reference thread: http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4326
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How about being able to mount a vhd?
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The three most important formats for Microsoft-centric system administrators should be added post-haste (IMHO):
ISO
WIM
VHDNote (for all those suggesting) MSIs, they are not a compression or archive format. MSIs can contain CABs in alternate streams, but the MSI itself is a well-documented, self-contained format that in and of itself does not contain other files.
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par file format well worth it
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its open source now
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jar from arj software it compresses better than 7zip
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isn’t it posible via plugins to add more archive formats?
wouldn’t it be an idea to have new formats as plugins. this way as in the case of the 7zip can be updfated with the developement of the format.
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zzip
Err … not exactly an up to date format
Current release of Zzip / Zzlib is 0.36c, 04-Jun-2001
We don’t want to add formats just because they exist(ed).
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par file format
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Par isn’t really an archive format though. It’s more of a checksum/repair format and probably outside the realm of PowerArchiver.
Of course, SPWolf may disagree with me.
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Par isn’t really an archive format though. It’s more of a checksum/repair format and probably outside the realm of PowerArchiver.
Of course, SPWolf may disagree with me.
nothing is outside the realm of PA ;-)… but PAR had good tools from the start, and i am not sure what could PA do better there… never say never though, it is just that our development time is limited.
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I was going to ask for support for .xap (silverlight archive) but I realized that as more and more filetypes become simply some data stuffed in a zip, it would be great to add zip sniffing (sort of like how PA checks EXE to see if they are self-extracting archives). When you right-click a file, PA could do a very quick check of the magic bytes to see if it is a zip file, and if so it would operate exactly like .zip. No need to add support separately for .jar, .epub, .cbz, .xap, .docx, .odf, .woff, etc. And these formats don’t usually get associated with an archiver anyway - they have their own programs they are associated with. It would just be nice if PowerArchiver knew it could unpack them.
–Brandon
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I was going to ask for support for .xap (silverlight archive) but I realized that as more and more filetypes become simply some data stuffed in a zip, it would be great to add zip sniffing (sort of like how PA checks EXE to see if they are self-extracting archives). When you right-click a file, PA could do a very quick check of the magic bytes to see if it is a zip file, and if so it would operate exactly like .zip. No need to add support separately for .jar, .epub, .cbz, .xap, .docx, .odf, .woff, etc. And these formats don’t usually get associated with an archiver anyway - they have their own programs they are associated with. It would just be nice if PowerArchiver knew it could unpack them.
–Brandon
there were some issues with that as more and more people modified zip format… we had it before as default for every format.
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I just saw your thread for adding more archives. Would it be possible for you to add INNO Setup and Nullsoft Scriptable Install System to PowerArchiver to be able to extract them directly? I know that 7zip can unpack INNO Setup and they mentioned on their site, that it can unpack NSIS aswell. Maybe you can take a general at both 7zip and IZArc for the supported file types and see if you can add support for the missing ones:
IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z. -
I have tested a command line version of 7zip and it works ok. I would say you could make one thats say beta so people can have the option.
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if paowerarchiver started using its plugin system more then all formats can be supported. Its possible to use someone esles commandline tool with powerarchivers plugin system.
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how about an add on that we pay for that can create rar files so we can add and extract rar files. To get around the licencing thing we pay a small fee to rarlabs for this privalege.
One interface small extra cost but worth it.
rarlabs would be up for this.
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David, why not to buy Winrar with full support for rar archives (incl. authenticity verification, etc) if you need it so much and are ready to pay more?
Eugene does not want to allow others to support his proprietary format. Ivan does not want to include something expensive that is not required for PowerArchiver. But if you like both applications why not to buy them all? -
it would be nice to see beta versions of formats used as some are almost the same as their final versions and some take far to long to become final but are standard on other archiving packages long before pa adds them
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true couild buy winrar but its interface is not as good as pas and winrar does not work well with windows. For instance i put a lot of things on my desktop and winrar sayes i have to go to my profile then desktop where as pa just goes to desktop just like windows explorer does.
pa interface is better and works with more formats plugins. wghy have two pakages doing virtually the same thing when one would be better.
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I was going to ask for support for .xap (silverlight archive) but I realized that as more and more filetypes become simply some data stuffed in a zip, it would be great to add zip sniffing (sort of like how PA checks EXE to see if they are self-extracting archives). When you right-click a file, PA could do a very quick check of the magic bytes to see if it is a zip file, and if so it would operate exactly like .zip. No need to add support separately for .jar, .epub, .cbz, .xap, .docx, .odf, .woff, etc. And these formats don’t usually get associated with an archiver anyway - they have their own programs they are associated with. It would just be nice if PowerArchiver knew it could unpack them.
Excellent idea.
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Want something to be done in PowerArchiver Format? (PAF?)… Wish away here:
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in actual fact you can have it as an alpha verion or a beta version the command line.
