- 1Archivers
- 1.4Archive format support
Archivers[edit]
General information[edit]
Creator(s) | First public release date | Latest stable version | Cost (USD) | Software license | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip | Igor Pavlov | January 2, 1999; 20 years ago | 19.00 February 21, 2019; 7 months ago | Free | LGPL (RAR plugin is proprietary) |
ALZip | ESTsoft | 1999; 20 years ago (as a WinZip translation) | 8.51.0.0 (9 September 2011; 8 years ago)[±] | A free general serial number was published on developer's website altools.com in August 2012 | Proprietary |
ALZip for Mac | ESTsoft | 1999; 20 years ago (as a WinZip translation) | 1.11 (June 13, 2012; 7 years ago)[±] | A free general serial number was published on developer's website altools.com in August 2012 | Proprietary |
Archive Manager | Paolo Bacchilega | May 12, 2001; 18 years ago | 3.32.1 April 8, 2019; 5 months ago[1] | Free | GPL |
Archive Utility | Apple Inc. | October 24, 2003; 15 years ago | 10.10 (October 16, 2014; 4 years ago)[±] | Included with Mac OS XCore Services | Proprietary |
Ark | KDE team | 1997 | 19.4.3 July 9, 2019; 2 months ago | Free | GPL |
B1 Free Archiver | Adam Buyer | August 2011; 8 years ago | 1.5.86 November 25, 2013; 5 years ago | Free | Proprietary |
BetterZip | BetterZip | May 2006; 13 years ago | 2.3.4 (December 1, 2014; 4 years ago[2])[±] | $19.95 USD | Proprietary |
Commander One | Eltima Software | August 4, 2015; 4 years ago | 1.1 September 29, 2015; 3 years ago | Standard Free; $29.95 Pro Pack | Proprietary |
Compressed Folders | Microsoft Inc. | June 25, 1998; 21 years ago | Windows 8.1 August 27, 2013; 6 years ago | Included in Microsoft WindowsWindows Explorer shell since Windows Me. | Proprietary |
CRAX Commander | Soft4U2 | September 1, 2013; 6 years ago | 1.10.9 March 2, 2016; 3 years ago | $19.99 USD | Proprietary |
Disk ARchiver | Denis Corbin | 2002; 17 years ago | 2.5.14 December 20, 2017; 21 months ago | Free | GPL |
Expander | Haiku, Inc. | 2002; 17 years ago | R1 Alpha 4.1 (November 14, 2012)[±] | Free | MIT |
Filzip | Philipp Engel | Unknown | 3.06 (July 19, 2006; 13 years ago)[±] | Free | Proprietary |
FreeArc | Bulat Ziganshin | November 1, 2007; 11 years ago v0.36 | 0.666 (May 20, 2010; 9 years ago) | Free | GPL |
iArchiver | Dare to be Creative Ltd. | October 21, 2007; 11 years ago | 1.4.1 October 30, 2008; 10 years ago | $26 | Proprietary |
Info-ZIP (Wzip) | Samuel Smith | March 1989; 30 years ago | 6.0 April 29, 2009; 10 years ago | Free | BSD-like |
KGB Archiver | Tomasz Pawlak | April 1, 2006; 13 years ago | 1.2.1.24 November 1, 2006; 12 years ago | Free | GPL |
PeaZip | Giorgio Tani | September 16, 2006; 13 years ago | 6.9.2 September 1, 2019; 26 days ago | Free | LGPL |
PKZIP | Phil Katz | 1989; 30 years ago | 12.4[3] (ca. September 2009; 10 years ago) | $29.00 | Proprietary |
PowerArchiver | ConexWare | March 1999; 20 years ago | 17.01.04 October 5, 2017; 23 months ago | $22.95 | Proprietary |
StuffIt | Smith Micro Software | 1987; 32 years ago | 15.0.7 December 1, 2011; 7 years ago[4] | Free expander; $49.99 Deluxe,[5] $79.99 French Deluxe;[6] Windows: $14.99 Standard,[7] $29.99 Deluxe,[8] $49.99 French (or German) Deluxe[9][10] | Proprietary |
TAR | AT&T | 1979; 40 years ago | GNU tar: ; star: 1.5.3; BSD tar: 2.6.0 | Free | Various |
The Unarchiver | Circlesoft | July 1, 2006; 13 years ago | 3.11.3 September 16, 2017; 2 years ago | Free | Proprietary |
Terse | IBM | July 1, 1984; 35 years ago | Free | Proprietary | |
TUGZip | Christian Kindahl | August 18, 2002; 17 years ago | 3.5.0.0 April 2, 2008; 11 years ago | Free | Proprietary |
WinAce | e-merge GmbH | Unknown | 2.69 November 23, 2007; 11 years ago | Free expander (GNU/Linux & Mac only); $29.00 Standard; $39.00 Plus | Proprietary |
WinRAR | Eugene Roshal / Alexander Roshal | 1993; 26 years ago | 5.71 (April 29, 2019; 4 months ago[11])[±] | Free expander; $29[12] | Proprietary |
WinZip | WinZip Computing, Inc | 1991; 28 years ago | 23.0.13431 (March 18, 2019; 6 months ago)[±] | $29.95 Standard; $49.95 Pro | Proprietary |
XAD a.k.a. XADMaster.library | Dirk Stoecker | 1998; 21 years ago | 13.1 | Shareware, Free for non commercial use | Proprietary |
Xarchiver | Giuseppe Torelli | Unknown | 0.5.4 September 14, 2014; 5 years ago | Free | GPL |
ZipGenius | Matteo Riso of M.Dev Software | May 2003; 16 years ago | 6.3.2.3112 August 8, 2014; 5 years ago | Free | Proprietary |
Creator(s) | First public release date | Latest stable version | Cost (USD) | Software license |
Operating system support[edit]
Windows | DOS | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Other Unix | AmigaOS | Android | Windows Mobile | Windows Phone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip | Yes[1] | Command-line interface[2] | Yes[2] | Yes[2] | Command-line interface[2] | Command-line interface[2] | Command-line interface | No | Yes | No |
ALZip | Yes | Command-line interface[13] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
ALZip for Mac | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Archive Manager | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Archive Utility | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Ark | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
B1 Free Archiver | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
BetterZip | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
bsdtar/libarchive | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Unknown | Unknown | No |
Commander One | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
CRAX Commander | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Disk ARchiver | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Filzip | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
FreeArc | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
GNU tar | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
iArchiver | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
Info-ZIP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[9] | Yes | No | Yes[8] | No |
KGB Archiver | Yes[7] | Partial | Command-line interface | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Unknown | ? |
PeaZip | Yes[1] | Unknown | Under Development[14] | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
PKZIP | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
PowerArchiver | Yes | Unknown | Command-line interface | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
Star | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | ? |
StuffIt | Yes | Unknown | Yes | X86 only, older version (5.2.0?) | No | older version (5.2.0?) | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
The Unarchiver | Command-line interface | No | Yes | Command-line interface | No | No | No | Unknown | No | ? |
TUGZip | Yes | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
WinAce | Yes | Command-line interface[5] | Command-line interface expander only[5] | X86, Command-line interface expander only[5] | No | No | Command-line interface expander only | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
WinRAR and RAR | Yes[1] | Yes | Command-line interface[6] | X86 and x86-64, Command-line interface[6] | Command-line interface[6] | Command-line interface[6] | Command-line interface expander only | Yes[15] | Yes | ? |
WinZip | Yes[1] | Command-line interface | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | ? |
XAD | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
Xarchiver | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
ZipGenius | Yes | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | ? |
Windows | DOS | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix | AmigaOS | Android | Windows Mobile | Windows Phone |
- ^ A separate 64-bit Windows x64 Edition version is also available.
- ^ The Unix-like system port is known as p7zip. p7zip also is provided by FreeDOS.
- ^ A Windows Mobile release (version 9.05-alpha onward) is available.
- ^ The programs for other platforms are called Unace, do not have the same GUI, and can only perform decompression.
- ^ WinRAR is for Windows, RAR for other platforms.
- ^ This program also has a POSIX version available.
- ^ General Windows CE version.
- ^ Also Acorn RISC OS, Atari, MVS, OS/2, VM/CMS, VMS and others.
Archiver features[edit]
Data compression | Shell integration | Password protection | Multiple volumes | Self extraction | File repairing | Batch conversion | Unicode file / directory names[5] | Encryption | Filename Encryption | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ALZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[8] | No | Unknown | Unknown |
Archive Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Archive Utility | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
ARJ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Ark | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
B1 Free Archiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
BetterZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
bsdtar/libarchive | No[2] | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
Commander One | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes for 7z |
CRAX Commander | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Disk ARchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Filzip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
FreeArc | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GNU tar | No[2] | Yes | No | Yes | No | Separate | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
iArchiver | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Unknown | Unknown |
Info-ZIP | Yes | No[11] | Yes | Yes[12] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[12] | Weak | No |
KGB Archiver | Yes | Not enabled by default | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown |
PeaZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[9] | Yes[10] | Yes |
PKZIP | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Separate | Separate | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown |
PowerArchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[7] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
StuffIt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown |
The Unarchiver | No[1] | some formats | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[1] | Yes | Unknown |
TUGZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unknown |
WinAce | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Unknown |
WinRAR and RAR | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[3] | Yes | Yes[6] | Yes | Yes |
WinZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[10] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
XAD | No[1] | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Xarchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
ZipGenius | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | Unknown | Unknown |
Data compression | Shell integration | Password protection | Multiple volumes | Self extraction | File repairing | Batch conversion | Unicode file / directory names[5] | Encryption | Filename Encryption |
- ^ Application is only for decompression.
- ^GNU tar calls the external programs gzip and bzip2 to perform compression; these external programs usually come with systems that contain GNU tar.
- ^ Allows adding a variable amount of redundancy for much better error recovery. See also RAR (file format).
- ^ Extracting/adding file and/or directory names into archive in either UTF-7, UTF-8 or UTF-16/UCS-2 encoding to support single file/directory name which contains characters from different languages. More recent versions of the zip file format have support for Unicode filenames.
- ^ In WinRAR 3.60, when opening 7-Zip archives which contains Unicode file/directory names, they will not be displayed correctly. There will be no problem extracting them, however.
- ^ Does support Unicode names, but not under the default (initial) option settings: the user must tick 'Use OEM conversion for filenames' under 'General' on the 'Miscellaneous' tab in the Configuration dialog to enable Unicode name support. Full support for Unicode files names by default is supported only for 7-Zip and RAR archive formats.
- ^ Commandline batch compression is available only for ZIP and ALZ formats.
- ^ UTF-8 file/path-names support was completed in release 3.0.1 on Unix systems, and in release 5.8.0 on Windows systems. GUI UTF-8 support for full internationalization of the application was completed in release 2.2.0. Optionally, extended characters can be set to be replaced by jolly '?' character for exporting scripts to legacy systems; scripts creation screen informs if commands are ANSI-safe, OEM-codepage-safe (on Windows), or requires UTF-8 compliant environment to run (system, command interpreter, etc).[16]
- ^ Commandline batch compression and expansion requires free add-on software downloaded from the WinZip website.[1]
- ^ Peazip supports file encryption and file name encryption, although only in certain types of archives, including its own Pea format, 7-zip, zip and Arc.
- ^ Many shells have built-in zip file support. Windows Explorer has 'Send To'->'ZIP-compressed folder'.
- ^ Since version 3.0 (2008).
Archive format support[edit]
Reading[edit]
ZIP | TAR | GZ | BZ/BZ2 | 7z | xz | RAR | LHA/LZH | ACE | SIT | SITX | ARJ | KGB | DAR | ARC | CAB | ALZ | ISO/CD Image | ZPAQ | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[1] | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
ALZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
TAR | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Archive Utility | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No[7] | No |
Ark | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
B1 Free Archiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No[11] | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
BetterZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
bsdtar/libarchive | Yes | Yes | Yes[10] | Yes[10] | Yes | Yes[10] | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
cpio | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Commander One | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
CRAX Commander | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
Disk ARchiver | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Filzip | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
FreeArc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | No[1] | No | No | Yes | No | No | No[12] | Yes | No | Yes | No |
GNU tar[2] | No[2] | Yes | Yes[2] | Yes[2] | No[3] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
iArchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Info-ZIP | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
KGB Archiver | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
PeaZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
PKZIP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
PowerArchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Star[2] | No[2] | Yes | Yes[2] | Yes[2] | Yes[2] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
StuffIt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
The Unarchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Partial[11] | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
TUGZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
WinAce | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
WinRAR | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
WinZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes[4] | Yes | No | No | No | Yes[5] | No | No | Yes[5] | Yes | No | Yes | No |
XAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Xarchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
ZipGenius | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes[10] | Yes | No | No | Yes[10] | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
ZIP | TAR | GZ | BZ/BZ2 | 7z | xz | RAR | LHA/LZH | ACE | SIT | SITX | ARJ | KGB | DAR | ARC | CAB | ALZ | ISO/CD Image | ZPAQ |
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- ^ Used to, but no longer does, due to technical and legal issues.
- ^ Tar implementations call external programs (like compress, gzip or bzip2 or any other programs working with abstract streams and supporting the '-d' option) to perform (de)compression, and allowing you to implement your own filters[2]. These external programs may be shipped with your Operating System.
- ^ GNU tar lets you implement your own filters [3], allowing you to use other compression programs (p7zip, ..) and filters (GPG, ..).
- ^ Starting from version 11.
- ^ Requires external program. More info
- ^ Archive Utility itself is unable to open ISO files, but Disk Utility, which also comes with Mac OS X, is able to mount them as virtual disks.
- ^ Requires external program.[4]
- ^ Only partial support for reading proprietary SITX format. [5]
- ^ FreeARC uses .arc as its filename extension, but this format is not the same as the traditional ARC file.
- ^ Supports these formats as compression stream of other archive formats like tar.bz2 or iso.xz but does not support the format as an archive itself.
- ^ B1 Free Archiver for Android and B1 Online Archiver support ARJ format.
Writing[edit]
ZIP | TAR | gzip | bzip2 | 7z | xz | RAR | LHA/LZH | ACE | StuffIt | StuffIt X | ARJ | KGB | DAR | ARC | CAB | ALZ | ISO/CD Image | ZPAQ | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip | Yes | Yes | Yes[14] | Yes[14] | Yes | Yes[14] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
ALZip[6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No |
Archive Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[12] | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No |
Archive Utility | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Ark | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[10] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
B1 Free Archiver | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
BetterZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
bsdtar/libarchive | Yes | Yes | Yes[15] | Yes[15] | Yes | Yes[15] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Commander One | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
CRAX Commander | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Disk ARchiver | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Filzip | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
FreeArc | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
GNU tar | No | Yes | Yes[1] | Yes[1] | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
iArchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Info-ZIP | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
KGB Archiver | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
PeaZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
PKZIP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
PowerArchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Star | No | Yes | Yes[1] | Yes[1] | Yes[1] | Yes[1] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
StuffIt[4] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No[9] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
TUGZip | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No[2] | Yes | No[4] | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Unknown | No |
WinAce | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Unknown | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No |
WinRAR | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
WinZip | Yes | No | No | No | No | Unknown | No | Yes | No | No | No | No[3] | No | Unknown | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Xarchiver | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No[11] | Yes | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No |
ZipGenius | Yes | Yes[7] | Yes[7] | Yes[7] | Yes | Unknown | No | Yes[8] | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Yes[7] | No | No | No |
ZIP | TAR | GZ | BZ/BZ2 | 7z | xz | RAR | LHA/LZH | ACE | SIT | SITX | ARJ | KGB | DAR | ARC | CAB | ALZ | ISO/CD Image | ZPAQ |
- ^ Tar implementations call the external programs gzip and bzip2, 7z, xz, .. to perform compression; these external programs usually come with systems that contain tar.
- ^ Requires rar.exe from WinRAR.
- ^ Requires external program(if you are using WinZip 11.1 or earlier). More info
- ^ Requires Ace32.exe from WinAce.
- ^ The Extractor and XAD are not included in this list because they only expand archives.
- ^ ALZip can also write to the following formats: BH, JAR, and LZH
- ^ Updating archives is not supported.[6]
- ^ Requires external program.[7]
- ^ Stuffit supported file formats [8]
- ^ Ark is a front-end only and requires appropriate command-line programs be installed. Programs like bzip2, gzip, tar, zip usually come with systems that contain Ark; writing in .rar format requires a commercial program. [9]
- ^ Xarchiver is a front-end only and requires appropriate command-line programs be installed. Programs like bzip2, gzip, tar, zip usually come with systems that contain Xarchiver; writing in .rar format requires a commercial program. [10][11]
- ^ Archive Manager is a front-end only and requires appropriate command-line programs be installed. Programs like bzip2, gzip, tar, zip usually come with systems that contain Archive Manager. writing in .rar format requires a commercial program.[12]
- ^ If there are more than one, files must be grouped in a .tar before being compressed.
- ^ supports the formats as stream compression of other archive format and can create compressed format like tar.bz2 or iso.xz but cannot create an archive in these formats
- ^ it is possible to open war and jar files to extract e add/replace file; files war and jar are still valid after that
Uncommon archive format support[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'ftp.gnome.org'. ftp.acc.umu.se. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
- ^http://www.betterzip.com/version-history/
- ^'Latest Product Updates - Support Center - PKWARE Support Site'. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ^'StuffIt Updates'. Smith Micro Software. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
- ^'StuffIt Deluxe English|German|Japanese'. Smith Micro Software. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
- ^'StuffIt Deluxe Mac French'. Smith Micro Software. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
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- Kingsley G. Morse Jr., 'Compression Tools Compared', Linux Journal, issue 137, September 2005
- Patrick Schmid, Achim Roos, (March 10, 2010) 'Four Compression And Archiving Solutions Compared', Tom's Hardware
If you use a POP or IMAP account, then all of your Outlook information is stored in an Outlook data file, also known as a Personal Folders File (.pst). You might also use an Outlook data file to backup messages or store older items to keep the size of your mailbox small.
By default, when you use Outlook's search tools, Outlook only searches the current mailbox. Any additional Outlook data files stored on your computer won't be searched unless you change your search scope to All Mailboxes.
You might also have an Outlook data file if you use AutoArchive with your Exchange server email account. This is a different feature than Archive button in Outlook 2016. For more information, see Archive in Outlook 2016. To see what your AutoArchive settings and location are, and for instructions to turn off AutoArchive, see Automatically move or delete older items with AutoArchive.
Search another Outlook data file
Open an Outlook data file
- In Outlook on your desktop (Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010), choose File > Open and Export > Open Outlook Data File.
- Choose the Outlook data file you want to open.
- Expand the top level of the Outlook data file in the Outlook Navigation pane to see the subfolders in the file. Click each subfolder to see the contents.
- To search for a specific email, use Outlook's built-in search tools.
- If you want to import your archived items back into your Inbox, follow the instructions for importing a .pst file.
Where is my .PST file?
- Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8, and 10 drive:UsersuserDocumentsOutlook Filesarchive.pst
- Windows XPdrive:Documents and Settingsuser Local SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftOutlookarchive.pst
- Windows 7, 8, 10, and Windows Vistadrive:UsersuserAppDataLocalMicrosoftOutlookarchive.pst
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Open an Outlook data file
- On the File menu, click Open > Outlook Data File.
- Select the Outlook Data file you want to open, and select Open.Important: If you can't find your .pst file, it may be hidden and you need to display the file location.
Change your search scope
- On the Tools menu, click Instant Search, and then click Search Options. Alternatively, click the arrow in the Instant Search pane, and then click Search Options.
- Under the When searching, show results from heading, use the All folders checkbox rather than Only the current selected folder.
I can't find my .pst file
Free File Archiver
- Windows 7, 8, 10, and Vista C:UsersYourUserNameAppDataLocalMicrosoftOutlookArchive.pst
- Microsoft Windows XP C:Documents and SettingsYourUserName Local SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftOutlookArchive.pst
- Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.
- Click Appearance and Personalization.
- Click Folder Options.
- On the View tab, under Advanced settings, under Files and Folders, under Hidden files and folders, select Show hidden files and folders.
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- Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
- Click Folder Options.
- On the View tab, click the Show hidden files and folders option.
Related Topics
Switch to another Outlook e-mail profile
Create a new e-mail profile
Back up, restore, or delete items using AutoArchive
Archive items manually