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
Streamlined update installation
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Hi,
I’ve got a registered version of Powerarchiver 2007, and it’s frustrating that when even a minor new version comes out, you have to download a whole setup program, which asks you the same questions as if it’s a fresh install. I don’t want to have to uncheck the “Add desktop icon” etc boxes every time I update. The ideal situation would be if PA could download, extract and run the latest update file with just a single click of the “Update” button (plus a click for Vista’s security dialog where appropriate). Does that sound feasible?
Thanks
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due to many updates over the year, and many different languages, it would mean that currently for PA 2007 we would have to build at minimum extra 20 installs - and if we wanted to save you some download time, it would be 120 :-).
So the truth is that we are always thinking about doing it but currently it would take too much of our valuable time.
We constantly are improving the installation, so we might be able to do something about root cause of your complaint (checkboxes) even without having special update installation…
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Hi, thanks for replying so quickly. As you say, even if the regular installer were able to skip over certain questions if it can see PA is already installed, that would be good too. The automated download was the more minor point. Thanks again.
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Allot of new software programs wil detect previos installs and registry values etc… also they drop a small setup.dll file into the root folder so on an update/install of a new version it asks the question “Keep Previos Settings” or “Clean Install”. I am sure once PA’s developers have the time this is something they could look into creating.
