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Tutorial
Additional
information can
be found in the online help file (.pdf)
PeaZip is available
both as installable
package and as natively portable application (both for
Windows and Linux) so it can be used from removable flash drives, or
remote units, without needing installation.
The application's title shows information on the current archive, the
application's status bar gives
more detailed information on selected and displayed content.
Form Organize menu it is
possible to customize or hide any of the application bars, i.e:
- navigation bar (Ctrl+Shift+2) can be hidden (Ctrl+Shift+1) or display
a simple tree (Ctrl+Shift+3)
- status bar (Ctrl+Alt+1) can be hidden (Ctrl+Alt+0) expanded to
display more information (Ctrl+Alt+2) or to show bookmarks
(Ctrl+Alt+3),
history (Ctrl+Alt+4), recent archives (Ctrl+Alt+5) or clipboard
(Ctrl+Alt+6).
On
the top of the application's window,
the toolbar contains
compression/extraction
related functions.
Please note,. on
the right of
“Extract” button, an arrow shows a menu with functions
to directly extract all the content of the archive to most common
destinations without further interaction with extraction confirmation
interface
- In the upper area are listed most common
extraction
operations: extract all to, allowing to select output directory (CTrl+E
or F12), extract all here (Ctrl+Alt+E), extract all to desktop
(Ctrl+Shift+E), extract all to documents (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E), extract to
1..3° bookmarked paths (if defined), and extract to default
extraction path (if defined). Only first, second and third bookmarks
are shown as quick extraction destination to not clutter the menu, but
bookmarks 1..8 are all accessible with keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+1..8.
Ctrl+0 extracts to previous path.
- In the lower area it is possible to set most
common
extraction options: extract to new folder, naming policy (only for
formats supported through 7z frontend), open output path after the job
completes, set default extraction path.
Address bar
contains navigation and search controls. It features a quick navigation
menu (arrow button on the left of address bar): a similar menu for
quick path's selection is available to set output
path in extraction and compression interfaces (see below).
On the left, the navigation bar
area allows to quickly jump to bookmarked paths/archives, and to
system's
paths and units.
In “Open with…” submenu of
PeaZip's context menu it is
possible to run
selected files and folders (in filesystem as well inside archives) with
favourite programs, scan with antivirus/antimalware etc; applications
can be set in Options > Settings > Open with...
In "Modify" submenu are featured copy, move, rename and create new
folder functions.
In "Misc" submenu are available other useful functions, like add
objects to PeaZip's bookmarks, explore paths with system's file
manager, open command prompt in the current path etc...
On the bottom of the application, the padlock icon allows to set password to navigate encrypted
archives.
Drag
and drop from application to
system: unlike Windows' drag and drop, PeaZip's drag and drop does not
use system's temp folder, so it speeds up operations between different
disks and does not fails if system's disk has not enough free space.
PeaZip by default shows image
thumbnails, without caching; the option can be set in Organize
menu.
PeaZip's entries in
system's context menu:
menu's
entries and file association in Windows are set by setup package, it
can be used any time it is needed without needing to unistall the
application first.
Starting from Windows 7 the menu items are sorted in a cascaded submenu
with icons, since Windows 7 introduces a new registry method to create
cascaded menus which is now recommended over COM methods.
During installation all of the entries in context menu can be skipped
and can be created in SendTo submenu
if preferred.
The SendTo entries are link files created in SendTo system folder
which, assuming C as system's disk, is located in C:\Documents and
Settings\(username)\SendTo (Windows XP) or
C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo (Vista/7),
it is possible to simply copy the desired SendTo links from one user to
another.
Archiving
/ conversion interface:
rightclick on the file list to show context menu to further edit the
lit of files and folders to be archived, and other options. The padlock
icon shows if password is set and allows to set/change/remove it.
In archiving interface it was added "Convert
existing archives" option, to extract existing archives before
compression stage.
This option, used with "Add each
object to a separate archive" option enabled, performs a mass
conversion of listed archives to the desired format; otherwise, with
the option disabled, archive conversion is meant to consolidate input
data in a single archive, improving compression efficency because it
allows recompression of the original data from its uncompressed form.
Extraction
interface: rightclick on
the file list to show context menu to further edit the lit of files and
folders to be archived, and other options.
The padlock icon shows if password is set and allows to
set/change/remove it.
In "Format options" group it is possible to set the policy in case of
conflict with existing files: skip (default), overwrite, rename
existing files, rename
extracted files, or to ask interactively (in backend process' console).
While performing a partial extraction of content from an archive, it is
featured a link to switch to full archive extraction, on the top of the
list of objects listed for extraction.
PeaZip compiled for
Linux,
GTK2 widgetset, running on Gnome desktop environment (Ubuntu Linux).
PeaZip is a desktop
neutral
utility and as long as the needed libraries are installed (GTK2 or Qt,
and
ia32-libs on 64 bit Linux systems) it can be used on KDE, Gnome or other desktop environments.
PeaZip software is developed with Lazarus/Freepascal,
which supports a wider range of systems and widgetsets (including BSDs
and OSX), if you are interested in porting the application check for
the sources on download page.
PeaZip compiled for
Linux,
Qt widgetset, running on KDE desktop environment.
PeaZip is a fully modular software due to its frontend/backend
architecture, so
any backend binary can be independently replaced with alternative
versions (i.e. 64 bit versions) as long as the same syntax is supported.
This design allows also to easily export jobs defined in the GUI as
command lines, to be used for future iterations of the same task, or
for learning purpose, or to fine tune the operation beyiond the scope
and limits of the graphical interface.
PeaZip utility can be
integrated
in
context menus of KDE and Gnome; all
resources to manually integrate portable version of the program, or
enhance installable version's integration, can be found in FreeDesktop_integration folder in
program's path.
Nautilus scripts:
manually copy
'Archiving' folder, which is contained in 'nautilus-scripts', to your
user's profile '.gnome2/nautilus-scripts' folder; that folder is
hidden, so you can either find it flagging 'View>Show hidden files'
in Nautilus, or clicking on 'Scripts>Open scripts folder' in Gnome's
context menu.
Konqueror (KDE 3.x)
service menu (.desktop files): copy .desktop files from
"kde3-konqueror" folder to (kde directory)
/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus. Please note that KDE directory may
vary from distribution to distribution (or can even be customized by
the user at KDE installation); /opt/kde3 is usually a common place for
installing KDE and is used, in example, in Suse and OpenSuse. The (kde
directory) is specified in $KDEDIR in environment variable and can be
overridden by $KDEDIRS.
This integration is automatically performed by the installer.
Dolphin (KDE 4.x)
service menu: copy .desktop files from "kde4-dolphin" to
/usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/. Please note that some
distribution may use different paths. This integration is automatically
performed by the installer.
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