Finding Files, Favorite Folders and E-Mailing Archives

Finding Files

Finding Files in an Archive

Finding Files

You can use the “Find” option in File List toolbar, under Main tab (“Edit” menu in the Classic interface) if you want to find a specific file in the currently opened archive. It will find the first file that matches the specified criteria and you can use “Find Next…” (F3) to search for the next file that matches same criteria. Here is the list of criteria options that you can specify:

  • Name

    • File Name - lets you search based on specified name criteria. You can also use standard wildcards, example: “*.html” would select all files with an html extension in the archive

  • Date

    • All Dates - does not search by file date

    • Find files created or modified - lets you select files within specified range of dates

  • Size

    • All Sizes - does not search by file size

    • Find file size in the range - lets you specify file size range you want to find

Using Favorite Folders

Introduction

Favorite Folders is useful tool for people that like to organize their archives. It displays all archives in your most commonly used folders, called Favorites. That way you can easily browse through all of your archives, even if they are located in different folders and drives.

How to use Favorite Folders

  • To open Favorite Folders, simply click on the Favorites icon on the toolbar or in the File menu.

  • You can sort the list of archives in Favorite Folders window by Name, Date or Folder. You can also filter the list by archive type using “Archive type” drop down.

  • If you want to find more archives (folders actually) to be added to the list, simply click on the Find Archives button.

  • If you wish to select more advanced options, just click on options button. It will show you the basic Favorite Folders options, which are very easy to understand and configure.

E-Mail Archives

PowerArchiver uses your standard e-mail application to e-mail files.

There are two ways of e-mailing files with PowerArchiver:

  • Main PowerArchiver Window - You can e-mail the currently opened archive by selecting “Mail Archive…” from the “File> Send” menu (“File” under Classic interface). PowerArchiver will create a new e-mail message and attach the open archive to it. You can then address the message, add any desired text, and send the e-mail as you usually would.

  • Shell Extensions - If you enable the “Mail It… ” shell extension (You can enable it in Configuration> Shell Extensions), you can right click on any archive in Windows Explorer and click on “E-mail It…” to e-mail the archive. PowerArchiver will create a new e-mail message and attach the open archive to it. You can then address the message, add any desired text, and send the e-mail as you usually would.

Click here for more info on shell extensions: Windows Shell Integration

Please Note

Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, Eudora and other mail clients that support Windows MAPI interface will work with this feature, but AOL mail might not. In case your email client does not support MAPI, then you should still be able to drag & drop an archive to the e-mail client.

E-mail client plug-in's

PowerArchiver currently has special Microsoft Outlook plug-in, which allows you to zip attachments within MS Outlook itself. You can download it from: [http://www.powerarchiver.com/paop/] .

Compiled from the official PowerArchiver Wiki (https://wiki.powerarchiver.com/)