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[Fixed] 7-Zip 9 doesn't remember settings

Submitted by Bruce Pascoe on December 22, 2010 - 11:39pm

Just did a clean install of 7-Zip Portable 9.20, and now it won't remember any of my customizations after closing. Whenever I start it, it resets to its default settings. Not sure what happened, but this is definitely a regression as 7-Zip 4.x worked fine.

Operating system is Win7 Ultimate x64, with Platform 2.0b5.

How to get a 7-zip shell context menu

Submitted by nowotny on December 9, 2010 - 5:18am

Hello.

Disclaimer: I run PortableApps from HDD on all my computers and sync it with Dropbox. I do that because I like to have the apps with their settings in one, easily transferable folder. I do not carry it on a stick. So, if you're anything like me keep on reading. Wink

Problem: If you try to integrate the portable 7-zip with the shell context menu it'll throw the "Can't find 7-zip.dll" error message at you.

Solution:
1. Install a "normal" version of 7-zip from their site: http://www.7-zip.org/

7-Zip: Password option unclear

Submitted by wolfmondschein on August 30, 2010 - 5:40am

Can somebody please verify:

I made an encrypted Archive of my personal Data and stored it.

About 3 hours later I added new Data and told 7Zip to add them to my
Archive which was to my knowledge encrypted.

Then there was to my surprise no question for the password and after the new files have been added my archive was without encryption???

Do I have to encrypt the filenames?

Please could someone give me a clue!

Thx in advance Wolf

7-Zip: WebWasher blocks download

Submitted by cquoss on July 14, 2010 - 8:14am

Hello,

we have WebWasher installed in the corporate network. This blocks the download of the actual 7-zip file '7-ZipPortable_4.65_Rev_2.paf.exe' with the remark that the Microsoft Authenticode certificate has expired.

These certificates seem to last one year, the file on the server is from June 2009. Maybe thats the problem?

Could this be fixed?

TIA

Bye

Clemens

7-Zip: Windows Explorer Does Nothing When Trying to Open File in ZIP Archive Encrypted with AES

Submitted by Bezalel on June 23, 2010 - 12:29pm

I have created one archive by encrypting PDF files with AES, and a second archive by encrypting with ZipCrypto. If I use 7-Zip to access either archive, they work fine.

However, if I use Windows Explorer (within XP Pro), I have a problem. When I try to access the archive encrypted with AES, it shows each file within the archive, but when I click on one of the PDF files, it does nothing. It doesn't prompt me for a password or open the file or anything. (Explorer properly accesses files in the archive encrypted with ZipCrypto.)

Any ideas?

[Fixed] 7-Zip: 4.65 Rev 2 doesn't want to change back to english

Submitted by Mark Sikkema on June 5, 2010 - 6:53pm

I was playing along changing my language(to test PidginPortable), and did run 7ZipPortable in Bulgarian once. After it never wanted to go back to English.

After going through the source and having a look in 'App\7-Zip\Lang' I come to the conclusion that it's a bug.

I do not know the exact reason why all the language files are *.txt file except for English (en.ttt), but this is equal in the original download from the 7Zip home page !
So there are 2 options to fix this, either,
Modify line 218 of the launcher script to:

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