Can you include .3MF to the list of re-compressible formats? Its structure is similar to MS Office 2007 documents and Open Document Format. It is a ZIP Deflate archive with XML data and some JPG, and/or PNG pictures inside. Otherwise, if I try to compress .3MF it bearly makes it smaller unless I recompress .3MF to the Store setting then it makes it a lot smaller.
Wish they all would move to 7zip ZSTD in the first place so that the optimized file size with FileOptimizer would be 50% of the ZIP Deflate version. And there would be no extra compression needed :)
I noticed that the option to add the optimize archive function to the context menu is missing on Windows 10.
Opening each archive with the interface in order to click it becomes tedious with many files.
Same for others functions like Remove Archive Encryption
I want better performance for IO Operations
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Hello,
I want to have the option to customize application buffer sizes so as to optimize IO operations.
Point of case: I was trying to extract a single-file, 45+GB in size, from a RAR archive. This took almost seven hours, because the PA Toolbox kept reading and writing data to HDD almost simultaneously.
On computers with decent amounts of RAM (> 8GB), I would like to have the option to control the buffer sizes for compression:
Input: Up to 128 MB.
Output: Up to 1 GB.This way, PowerArchiver Toolbox 2015 does not read 32 KB of data, or whatever small amount it currently does, but reads my proposed 128 MB in one pass, leaves the HDD alone while it’s performing the in-memory extraction, then writes data back to the HDD.
I believe this will add significant performance improvements, because of no longer having to wait for the hard drive to recover from reading/ reading in a location different than the previous one.
On modern hard drives, reading or writing to consecutive blocks is very optimized. Let’s use that. And let’s also better use the amounts of RAM on modern computers.
If we could also imagine a compression mechanism that uses larger-size buffers, that would be great. It will definitely help us improve on our IO usage and performance (due to not congesting IO but by coordinating I and O for smart operations).
Thanks,
R.