PeaZip Portable 4.9 has been released. PeaZip Portable is the easy to use PeaZip file archiver packaged as a portable app, so you can take your file archiver with you and work with your compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go. This release updates the included PeaZip to the latest release. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.
Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.
Features
PeaZip is a file archiver (compression) utility for Windows with a great array of features including:
- Edit, save and restore archive layouts
- Supported formats:
- Pack / unpack: 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, TAR, UPX, and ZIP
- Unpack only: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DEB, ISO, LHA, RAR, RPM and more archive types...
- Apply multiple filters to archive contents
- Archive splitting and joining
- Encryption and secure deletion
- File comparison and checksum / hash (CRC, MD5, SHA...)
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
PeaZip Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
PeaZip Portable is available for immediate download from the PeaZip Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
PeaZip 64-bit
Like 7-Zip, which already has both 32 and 64-bit versions, PeaZip will also benefit from the 64-bit performance. Please add it!!
I wrote the above but then I checked with more detail. I was fooled because the main executable of PeaZip 64-bit is still 32-bit, unlike 7-Zip's 64-bit version which is all 64. Now that I've looked into this with more detail, I know that the 7-Zip engine is the only part of PeaZip that is actually 64-bit, and the current PortableApps.com PeaZip release IS using the 7-Zip 64-bit component! So all is as it should be!
Keep up the good work!
Correct
Only certain pieces of the PeaZip 64-bit build are 64-bit, the rest are all 32-bit. So we include just those special pieces in our dual-mode build and switch between them based on PC. This lets us have it as a 32+64-bit app without us needing the install space of the full 32-bit and 64-bit versions of PeaZip. That together with using the PortableApps.com AppCompactor on it allows us to get our 32+64-bit PeaZip into only 14MB where the zipped version of PeaZip 64-bit takes up 21MB by itself. Glad you like it
Thanks + related note
Thanks for the swift reply.
How not to like it?
One more thing, on a related note, I've recently commented on HaoZip's uniqueness. Is there any chance this fine program will be added to PortableApps.com?
Off-Topic
Any interest in HaoZip will be handled in that topic. Personally, I have no interest in it. I much prefer the open source 7-Zip or even PeaZip over a closed source app by an unknown developer. Any possible uniqueness around being able to more quickly store a video doesn't apply to me either as I don't think I've zipped a video in at least 5 years. Of course, these aren't just my apps
There are 3 dozen other devs who may have an interest in doing the work and gaining permission (required for closed source freeware).
Final relatively off-topic post
I say relatively off-topic because this touches on limitations of the topic's app, so it's a comparative information.
Normally I don't compress formats such as videos and music, because they have been compressed already by specific algorithms that handle their type of data much better. However, the great advantages of automatically selective compression methods arise when you simply want to backup huge amounts of data spanning many folders with lots of different content. Without the filetype-based algorithm selection, you'll end up taking much longer and even end up with a larger resulting archive than if you had each filetype treated with a relevant algorithm. Even with relatively small archives this is true, you can save a lot of time.
I had been looking for a free app to do that for a long time, and for a long time I had been wishing 7-Zip or PeaZip would implement that feature. I still do hope they implement it. But for now, HaoZip is the only alternative I know to WinRAR (which has this feature, but isn't free, plus HaoZip uses 7zip algorithms which are usually better). Having said that, 7-Zip and PeaZip remain as excellent applications, no doubt.