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    • Support for Zstandard .zst/.zstd archives

      Z

      It would be nice to be able to at least extract Zstandard archives.

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    • Highlighting files and folders in Add modes

      PA_Fan

      I prefer to use light themes, and when, for example, I have set up my main archive screen to be Classic Toolbar with Blizzard Blue, files in the archive are highlighted (no checkboxes, full row select) with white text on grey background. They are easy to see .

      However, in the Add screens, the files and folders are black type upon a pale blue background, which is not so readily visible, especially when highlighting separate files in lists with Ctrl/Click for addition. It would be ideal if the backgrounds to files in these screens could be set to mimic the highlighting of those in the main archive window.

      I have tried experimenting with different themes and settings for skins, toolbars and so forth, but, unless I’ve missed something, none seem to give me the effect I want.

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    • .BH in Windows 11 Context Menu

      C

      Re: Windows 11 Context menu support

      It would really make me happy if you put .BH in the Windows 11 context menu. I know it’s in the “More Options” section, but this would make it more convenient. Don’t know why the option to add it to the menu isn’t there in the first place. P-L-E-A-S-E ??? :) Thanks You!

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    • paq9a support

      R

      Any chance of including this format in a future release?

      https://github.com/FS-make-simple/paq9a

      Exceptional compression levels.

      Thanks.

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    • Windows Store Delivery (and ideally updates)

      TheAndyMac

      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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    • What features do you want in new format?

      spwolf

      Tell us what features you want from new format…

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    • Windows 11 Context menu support

      BigMike

      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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    • OneDrive for Business support

      Z

      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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    • Better handling for protected archives

      BigMike

      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:
      Tell me, that the password was wrong and give me the chance to enter the correct password to decrypt the archive.

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    • ZIPX: Add support for packing JPEG with specialized algorithm

      A

      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?
      Thanks!

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    • Better archive type handling with drag & drop

      BigMike

      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.

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    • Elevation of UAC in Mounting Images

      F

      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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    • Bulkzip Nanozip (.nz) file format

      D

      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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    UNSOLVED Setting to keep X number of backups

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    • ghendric
      ghendric last edited by

      There needs to be a setting for the backup feature to set how many backup files to keep.

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        spwolf conexware @ghendric last edited by

        @ghendric Hello,

        we would hate to have to delete your backups. Since backups are in form of archives, quite possibly something else can happen to old backup (delete, virus, hdd error) and we automatically deleting it could cause an issue.

        Did you check on doing incremental backups? For instance strategy could be to do full backup on Sunday and incremental backup on every other day. That would create much less backups (in size) and it would still be very safe.

        Thank you!

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        • ghendric
          ghendric @spwolf last edited by

          @spwolf Well, I’m kind of limited on the amount of space i have to back up to. Also, I don’t need to keep every backup. My only option right now is to either babysit the backup location and delete unnecessary backups,which i’d rather not do, or write a windows service to monitor the backup location and delete them that way. It would be nice to have that setting just in case it was needed. I was using a backup utility called Cobian but it seems to have become broken with the latest Windows 10 update and that app hasn’t progressed in development in the past few years. Reinstalling it didn’t fix it either.

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          • spwolf
            spwolf conexware @ghendric last edited by

            @ghendric said in Setting to keep X number of backups:

            @spwolf Well, I’m kind of limited on the amount of space i have to back up to. Also, I don’t need to keep every backup. My only option right now is to either babysit the backup location and delete unnecessary backups,which i’d rather not do, or write a windows service to monitor the backup location and delete them that way. It would be nice to have that setting just in case it was needed. I was using a backup utility called Cobian but it seems to have become broken with the latest Windows 10 update and that app hasn’t progressed in development in the past few years. Reinstalling it didn’t fix it either.

            did you check out my idea of using incremental backups together with full ones? Incrementals will only compress updated files.

            Or is it not applicable to your own situation (ie lots of always updated large files).

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            • ghendric
              ghendric @spwolf last edited by

              @spwolf Yes but won’t incremental backups make a lot of backups as well? If it does, i could still run out of disk space.

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              • spwolf
                spwolf conexware @ghendric last edited by

                @ghendric said in Setting to keep X number of backups:

                @spwolf Yes but won’t incremental backups make a lot of backups as well? If it does, i could still run out of disk space.

                only changed files will be backed up. Copy the script, and then edit it to be incremental and see after a day how much it backup up?

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                • ghendric
                  ghendric @spwolf last edited by

                  @spwolf Ok, I’ll try that and see how it goes… still would be nice to have a feature that will allow the user to specify how many backups to keep… just sayin’… :slightly_smiling_face:

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                  • spwolf
                    spwolf conexware @ghendric last edited by

                    @ghendric said in Setting to keep X number of backups:

                    @spwolf Ok, I’ll try that and see how it goes… still would be nice to have a feature that will allow the user to specify how many backups to keep… just sayin’… :slightly_smiling_face:

                    yeah, please let me know how it works out for you specifically.

                    I will write something about deleting these in the future… but it has to be done properly, I would like it to save size, date of the backups and then compare to what is on disk before it deletes last 5.

                    We dont want to get into situation of something else modifying the files (by accident) and then Backup deleting those without understanding that the files might not be the same as original backup. So some kind of simple database with backup check, before we delete them for you.

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                    • ghendric
                      ghendric last edited by

                      The incremental backup is creating a bunch of little archive files that contain folders with nothing in them. It is getting what has changed but navigating through the archive is a bit cumbersome when looking for what has changed. I think at some point there are going to be too many archives to look through if i need to restore something. How does the join archives functionality work? Is that a merge or does one archive take presidence over another?

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                      • spwolf
                        spwolf conexware @ghendric last edited by

                        @ghendric said in Setting to keep X number of backups:

                        The incremental backup is creating a bunch of little archive files that contain folders with nothing in them. It is getting what has changed but navigating through the archive is a bit cumbersome when looking for what has changed. I think at some point there are going to be too many archives to look through if i need to restore something. How does the join archives functionality work? Is that a merge or does one archive take presidence over another?

                        It is merge but I am not sure about same files and how would it pick which one gets merged.

                        There is classic view that shows you only files and path is a field, instead of default explorer view. This will help a lot I think:

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                          Murderhead last edited by

                          I’m also Interest in such an setting. I hope you guys from ConeXware can provide such an Feature in an Future update.

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