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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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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. -
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.
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OT: A while back I requested that moving up and down in an archive’s folder structure could be considered to work with a mouse’s forward and back buttons like windows explorer does. It is so automatic for me I still try to use them with PA first before realising I have to double-click on the two dots. Can this be done?
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I know CRC32 was the standard for checking the integrity of compressed files but it is not really used anymore. Can you add ones that are used now MD5 or SHA?
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Opening the ‘Backup’ I still wonder how PA is ordering the files.
It’s not by name, not by last run…
Is it not possible to have them ordered by NAME (default).
Now you have to click on Name to have a meaning overview. If you jump to ‘archive’ and back to ‘backup’, they are again disordered0_1523006481222_7f290e95-2f9a-4c85-bdc1-d8ba0831b91f-image.png
Thx.
UNSOLVED Setting to keep X number of backups
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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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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I’m also Interest in such an setting. I hope you guys from ConeXware can provide such an Feature in an Future update.