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PeaZip
is a free cross-platform rar / zip files utility that provides an
unified,
portable GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc,
PAQ, UPX... free alternative to WinRar, WinZip and
similar
proprietary software.
- Create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP
files
- Open and extract ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA,
RAR, UDF, ZIPX ..., over 200 types
supported for decompression
Features of PeaZip includes: integration with context menu and drag and
drop for creation and extraction of
archives, custom fast drag & drop extraction,
convert files, create
self-extracting archives, split, join files,
strong encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password
manager, secure deletion, test
archives, calculate hash / checksum,
export job definition as script.
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PeaZip screenshots: drag and drop
extraction, context menu
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By
default, PeaZip
fully integrate an improved implementation of native drag and drop on
Windows platform, and also implements
an optional custom drag and drop mechanism. Both options are fine tuned
for the needs of archive management task, and provides security,
stability, and speed improvements over standard system's drag and drop
mechanism.
Options > Settings > General, "Use native drag and drop on
Windows" switches the application between native and custom drag
&drop mode.
Opening an archive file in PeaZip's archive
browser allows to select content
to be extracted through
full-featured extraction GUI, or simply dragged to the system which
results in direct extraction without further interaction requests.
Depicted in this screenshot, legacy custom drag
and drop extraction
from archive browser to system, using PeaZip's custom drag and
drop implementation (optional, default off) which shows its own drag
and drop
information box about destination target and content being handled by
the operation. Please note that, by default PeaZip uses native Windows
drag and drop, improved for providing optimal performances for
archive's extraction.

Fast Drag and Drop extraction from archives
PeaZip
drag and drop implementation is specifically fine tuned for extraction
of large contents from archives, and substantially improvs the
security, stability, and on certain circumstances the speed, over the
standard, geneal purpose system's drag&drop implementation.
Standard Windows drag and drop implementation (taken as reference)
needs the
selected content to be firstly decompressed to a temporary system's
path, then moved to the intended destination directory, which needs
twice the data being written if the intended destination is not on
system's disk.
Instead, PeaZip directly extracts
the dragged content to the target path, so under any circumstance data gets written only once, and only to
intended destination.
PeaZip's fast drag and drop extraction
implementationbrings multiple advantages over standard drag and drop
- speed: extraction is
nearly twice as fast when the
destination directory is not on system's disk, i.e. extracting data to
different partitions, removable disks or usb keys,
network paths...
- stability:
if large amount of data is involved, standard drag and drop will fail
if system disk has not enough free space, while PeaZip's fast drag and
drop extraction only requires sufficient free disk space on the
intended destination
- security:
if encryption is involved, no orphaned plain-text data could ever be
left on system's temporary path, as the decompressed and decrypted data extracted from
the encrypted archive is written only on the intended destination path
Default option "Use native native
drag and drop on Windows" mechanism brings
additional advantages over the purely custom approach:
- ease of use:
native drag&drop is consistent with standard behavior of system and
other Windows applications, while custom drag and drop can target only
desktop or open folders with address bar enabled (standard on all
Windows systems)
- unnecessary
levels of nesting of extracted files and folders are automatically
removed when using native drag&drop
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PeaZip free archiver utility also supports dragging files
from system to application for archiving and extraction (if drag and
drop source is detected being an archive
file i.e. ZIP, RAR, 7Z...), and for plain
drag&drop file copy.
Dragging files from
filesystem to an open archive leads to archive
update GUI for adding
dropped files to the current archive, if format is
write supported (i.e. add to existing zip, but not to rar which is a
proprietary format supported only for decompression and test
operations).
Screenshots
of PeaZip contextual menu and SendTo
menu entries, for performing straightforward archive creation,
extraction and test archives operations, with minimal or no interaction
with main
program's GUI, simply right clicking on target 7z, rar, tar, zip...
archives.
Extract... and Add to archive entries brings to main extraction and
compression screens respectively, allowing to fine tune the action with
all supported options (compression format and level, provide encryption
password, split to volumes, delete original files after operation, etc).
Extract here
and Add to .7Z / Add to
.ZIP simply starts immediate
extraction or archive creation in the selected format, applying default
options, without requiring further user's interaction.
On Microsoft Windows platform,
system context menu entries (and file extensions associations) can be
customized during
installation or from Options > System integration to keep favourite
compression, decompression, testing, encryption entries.
On Linux operating systems,
FreeDesktop_integration folder contains sample scripts for integrating
the application in system's menus.


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PeaZip is a cross
platform file archiver software, supporting creation and extraction of
multiple
archive formats on Linux, Windows and other operating systems /
architectures combinations supported by Lazarus/FPC IDE.
When
compiled for Win32 or Win64,
it supports Microsoft Windows
systems, XP and Vista / 7 / 8.x / 10 family, both 32 bit and 64 bit
versions (64 bit Windows system can run both native Win64 version, or
32 bit version through WoW64 subsystem), and API compatible Wine /
ReactOS platforms.
The program can also be natively compiled, either with GTK2 or Qt
widget set, for Linux x86 and Linux x86-64, pre-packed as DEB
(Debian,
Ubuntu, Knoppix, ...), RPM (Fedora, Mandriva,
SUSE, Red Hat,
ArkLinux), TGZ (Slackware), and TAR.GZ (portable, installation not
required).
Experimental versions exists
for ARM Linux and BSD, wrapped application can be
used on macOS / OSX platform .
Portable versions
of of PeaZip cross-platform file archiver software are available for
all
supported platforms, those
versions does not require installation and can be used simply unzipping
the program's folder to the desired directory, and starting the
application clicking on peazip executable.
UNACE Plugin,
required to open and extract WinAce ACE files, is available for Windows
and
Linux platforms, both for installable and portable packages.
Optional UNRAR5
Plugin, alternative unrar engine (WinRar RAR5 format extraction is
supported
out of the box), based on RarLab's unrar code, is available too for
Linux and Windows operating systems, both for portable and installable
packages.
ACE and RAR compression (creation) is not implemented due to licensing
limitations
of those formats.
Those packages, available for multiple platfroms supported by PeaZip,
requires separate download as they contains code
released under licenses not compatible with Open Source LGPLv3: UNACE, UNRAR / UNRAR5 Plugins for Linux and
Windows
Following screenshots are
taken running PeaZip on multiple patforms: MS Windows XP, Linux
(Ubuntu) with
GTK2 and Qt widget sets.



All
PeaZip screenshots, on this page as well
as on the entire domain, are free for any use under Public Domain
license, please
feel free to use
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