BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02

[Luxor]

How about EPA?

Elite PowerArchiver

[guido]

.paa PowerArchiver Archive?

[Mili]

.pow!

want he best archive format? POW IT!

:D

[guido]

Pow!!!

[davidsplash]

best one is .spa

super powerarchiver or special powerarchiver or spwolf powerarchiver

[By-Tor]

I would go with either .pa or .parc.

[spwolf]

.torrent
.powerarchiver

[davidsplash]

if you want to use just three letters then

.pow

meaning power

or

.pff

meaning powerarchiver file format

or

.fpa

meaning format powerachiver

[spwolf]

.torrent
.power
.powerarchiver
.pa

?

[davidsplash]

idea is to use

.paff or .pafa

powerarchiver file formart or powearchiver file archive

[Mameluke]

If i had to pick between those I would go with .PA

.Powerarchiver is just too long imo

Mame

[mwb1100]

I vote for the .pax suggestion made by Wandus.

[davidsplash]

sorry but .pax is in use

PaX is a patch for the Linux kernel

[davidsplash]

why not .spf

meaning spwolf powearxchiver format

[Luxor]

@davidsplash:

sorry but .pax is in use

As is nearly everything else that has been suggested. So I don’t see that as a problem myself.

[spwolf]

.torrent
.power
.pa

:-)

[mwb1100]

@Luxor:

@davidsplash:

sorry but .pax is in use

As is nearly everything else that has been suggested. So I don’t see that as a problem myself.

Right - many extensions are used by multiple bits of software.

• .doc - used by Word and WordPerfect
• .bin, .img - used for many different things
• .pdb - used for MSVC’s debugging symbols and Palm software packages
• .dwt - used for AutoCAD and DreamWeaver templates

The key is: will the conflict cause a lot of headaches? I think the only time the registered program for an extension is an issue is so the Explorer can figure out what program will be started when the file is double clicked.

I have a feeling that there won’t be too many PA users who are doing a whole lot with Linux kernel patch files.

[guido]

maybe .guido ??

[amh209]

I will vote for guido :)

[gan]

@mwb1100:

The key is: will the conflict cause a lot of headaches? I think the only time the registered program for an extension is an issue is so the Explorer can figure out what program will be started when the file is double clicked.

I have a feeling that there won’t be too many PA users who are doing a whole lot with Linux kernel patch files.

I actually agree, but it won’t hurt trying to avoid such a conflict. It’s not that important what the extension will be even if it would be nice if not too long. It’s more important to avoid headaches like you said, but if finding an extension that’s never been used that’s even better of course.

Unless the new format have much better compression ratio than 7z without being a lot slower i cannot really see the benefit of just another format. 7z is pretty common, the compression is great and extraction supported by most applications. So really no reason to use a new format unless it’s much better i think. For me it would also be important that other apps can extract these archives as well and not only PA.

I actually wonder….do we really need a new format? Should ConeXware spend their time on other tasks like fixing bugs faster, adding requested features and enhance the current features instead? Just a thought…

-gan