PeaZip Open source, portable file and archive manager Giorgio Tani <[email protected]> PeaZip PeaZip: Open source, portable file and archive manager by Giorgio Tani Publication date 2013-11-22 Abstract Translation: Giorgio Tani PeaZip official site: http://www.peazip.org/ Licensing: Present documentation is released under GNU GFDL License; PeaZip executable implementation is released under GNU LGPL License. For more information about the licenses: GNU GFDL License, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt . GNU LGPL License, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt . PeaZip 5.2.0 ii PeaZip Table of Contents I. Basic .............................................................................................................................................................. 1 1. How to ... ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Extract single or multiple archives ........................................................................................................ 3 Extract selected content from archive .................................................................................................... 4 Browse or extract password protected archive ......................................................................................... 4 Create archives .................................................................................................................................. 4 Add content to existing archive ............................................................................................................ 4 Span archive in smaller files of a given size ............................................................................................ 4 Create encrypted archives .................................................................................................................... 4 Archive items in separate archives at once ............................................................................................. 5 Convert single or multiple archives ....................................................................................................... 5 Directly create an archive of specified format with given compression level ................................................. 5 Save a task definition as script for future batch use .................................................................................. 5 Configure PeaZip ................................................................................................................................ 5 2. What is PeaZip ....................................................................................................................................... 6 II. Advanced ...................................................................................................................................................... 8 3. File manager ......................................................................................................................................... 10 Main menu ...................................................................................................................................... 10 Tool Bar ......................................................................................................................................... 13 Address Bar .................................................................................................................................... 15 Navigation Bar ................................................................................................................................ 17 Status Bar ....................................................................................................................................... 17 Drag and Drop ................................................................................................................................. 18 File Browser .................................................................................................................................... 19 Context Menu .................................................................................................................................. 21 File manager's keyboard shortcuts ....................................................................................................... 24 File manager's mouse controls ............................................................................................................ 27 Enter password (F9) ......................................................................................................................... 27 Password manager (Shift+F9) ............................................................................................................ 28 Create keyfile (Ctrl+F9) ................................................................................................................... 29 Set advanced filters (Ctrl+Shift+F9) ................................................................................................... 30 File tools ........................................................................................................................................ 31 4. Extract archives ..................................................................................................................................... 34 Extract ............................................................................................................................................ 35 Advanced ........................................................................................................................................ 36 Console, Schedule ............................................................................................................................ 37 Note about extraction ........................................................................................................................ 37 5. Create / convert archives ......................................................................................................................... 38 Archive ........................................................................................................................................... 38 Advanced ........................................................................................................................................ 41 Console .......................................................................................................................................... 43 Keyboard shortcuts for archive extraction and creation ........................................................................... 44 Mouse controls for archive extraction and creation ................................................................................. 45 III. Expert ........................................................................................................................................................ 46 6. Save and schedule tasks .......................................................................................................................... 48 7. PeaLauncher ......................................................................................................................................... 50 8. Settings ................................................................................................................................................ 52 General (1) ....................................................................................................................................... 52 General (2) ....................................................................................................................................... 53 Archive manager ............................................................................................................................... 54 File Tools ......................................................................................................................................... 55 Customize theme ............................................................................................................................... 55 Advanced settings editing .................................................................................................................. 56 IV. Additional information .................................................................................................................................. 57 9. Supported formats .................................................................................................................................. 59 PeaZip 5.2.0 iii PeaZip 10. Customisation and scripting ................................................................................................................... 61 11. Translations ......................................................................................................................................... 63 12. Notes ................................................................................................................................................. 65 SendTo and context menu ................................................................................................................. 65 Creation of RAR archives .................................................................................................................. 65 ACE archives .................................................................................................................................