Updated Total7Zip plugin based on 7-Zip 18.XX beta
Posted: 17.10.2015, 20:35
Updated Total7Zip plugin based on current 7-zip 15.09 beta version (both 32 and 64 bit versions)
Latest version could be found here http://forum.freecommander.com/viewtopi ... 102#p27102
I decided to update Total7Zip 0.8.5.6 plugin that could be found on all forums. It was build on very old 7-zip 9.22 beta version. Last update of that plugin was previously done by developer at 20.11.2012 (almost 3 years ago!!!).
If you have any doubt about my updated plugin, you can do it yourself. Update could be done very easy. Plug-in uses original 7-zip files, and you can use the latest version of 7-zip to update the plug-in (information could be found in readme.rtf file in plugin folder). So you need to unpack 32 and 64-bit files and language folder from 7Zip setups into corresponding folders of plugin (not all, of course, but only those that are necessary).
Why I decicded to do that?
In October 2014 I wrote Marek that internal fcZip plugin doesn't support pretty new feature - xz in WinZip (zipx) - archives, created with Winzip (18.5)
Example of such a .zipx archive could downloaded here https://www.dropbox.com/s/jqhkfesjpe1o8 ... setup.zipx
Marek unswered that for fcZip he uses third-party component and he requested the zipx support and it is on the wish list.
By the way, old Total7Zip 0.8.5.6 plugin also could not unpack that file (empty 0 byte file was unpacked).
One year passed. But nothing changed in internal fcZip plugin - it still can't unpack .zipx files in FC XE 698.
What Total7Zip plugin update gave to us?
Now we can unpack many new archive formats, that 7-Zip 15.09 now support:
- extract .zipx (WinZip) archives that use xz compression.
- extract GPT images and single file QCOW2, VMDK, VDI images.
- extract solid WIM archives with LZMS compression.
- extract ext3 and ext4 (Linux file system) images.
- extract ext2 and multivolume VMDK images.
And as always, huge number of bugs was fixed.
Note, that in FC XE order of plugins is very important. To have all that new archive formats support, Total7Zip plugin should be prior to (above) fcZip plugin!
Content of .zipx archives could be opened with Ctrl-PageDown hotkey in FC XE.
You can find what was fixed in 7-zip since version 9.22 here http://www.7-zip.org/history.txt
If you'll find any bugs in updated plugin, please let me know.
Latest version could be found here http://forum.freecommander.com/viewtopi ... 102#p27102
I decided to update Total7Zip 0.8.5.6 plugin that could be found on all forums. It was build on very old 7-zip 9.22 beta version. Last update of that plugin was previously done by developer at 20.11.2012 (almost 3 years ago!!!).
If you have any doubt about my updated plugin, you can do it yourself. Update could be done very easy. Plug-in uses original 7-zip files, and you can use the latest version of 7-zip to update the plug-in (information could be found in readme.rtf file in plugin folder). So you need to unpack 32 and 64-bit files and language folder from 7Zip setups into corresponding folders of plugin (not all, of course, but only those that are necessary).
Why I decicded to do that?
In October 2014 I wrote Marek that internal fcZip plugin doesn't support pretty new feature - xz in WinZip (zipx) - archives, created with Winzip (18.5)
Example of such a .zipx archive could downloaded here https://www.dropbox.com/s/jqhkfesjpe1o8 ... setup.zipx
Marek unswered that for fcZip he uses third-party component and he requested the zipx support and it is on the wish list.
By the way, old Total7Zip 0.8.5.6 plugin also could not unpack that file (empty 0 byte file was unpacked).
One year passed. But nothing changed in internal fcZip plugin - it still can't unpack .zipx files in FC XE 698.
What Total7Zip plugin update gave to us?
Now we can unpack many new archive formats, that 7-Zip 15.09 now support:
- extract .zipx (WinZip) archives that use xz compression.
- extract GPT images and single file QCOW2, VMDK, VDI images.
- extract solid WIM archives with LZMS compression.
- extract ext3 and ext4 (Linux file system) images.
- extract ext2 and multivolume VMDK images.
And as always, huge number of bugs was fixed.
Note, that in FC XE order of plugins is very important. To have all that new archive formats support, Total7Zip plugin should be prior to (above) fcZip plugin!
Content of .zipx archives could be opened with Ctrl-PageDown hotkey in FC XE.
You can find what was fixed in 7-zip since version 9.22 here http://www.7-zip.org/history.txt
If you'll find any bugs in updated plugin, please let me know.