PeaZip


	PeaZip is a free cross-platform file archiver that provides an unified portable GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX... Create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP files Open and extract over 150 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, ZIPX files and more... Features of PeaZip includes extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives, split/join files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, export job definition as script.

7-Zip 7Z files

How to create, open and extract 7Z archives

7-Zip

is a popular modern Open Source file archiver created by Igor Pavlov, supporting compression protocols which features native UTF-8 support for filenames, AES encryption, volume spanning, and high compression ratio.
7Z is 7-Zip's archiving format, providing high compression ratio through powerful compression algorithms (LZMA/LZMA2, PPMd , BZip2) that can take benefit of parallel computing on modern multicore CPUs.
XZ is a pure compression format, based on LZMA algorithm family.

7-Zip was developed for Windows platforms, and ported by p7zip p7zip

project team on Unix platforms.
PeaZip uses the components from those two programs (that are released under LGPL license as PeaZip) to offer the same GUI frontend to create, browse, test and extract 7z and ZIP archives under Linux and Windows as well.

To create a 7Z archive, or add files to an existing 7Z file you can:

Drag files to a PeaZip instance; if you are browsing an existing archive you will be asked if you want to add files to the archive or create a new one
Select files and folder and use system's context menu entry Add to archive
Select files in PeaZip and use Add button or context menu entry

To extract 7Z or XZ files you can:

Use context menu entry "Extract here" or "Extract here (to new folder)"
Use context menu entry "Extract..." to be asked for output path and other options
Open the archive in PeaZip in PeaZip and use "Extract" button (you can chose output path, enter password and other options before confirming with "Ok") to extract selected object, or Extract > Extract all in application's context menu to extract all the archive
Open the archive in PeaZip and drag desired objects from the application to the system (the opposite can be used to add objects to the archive)
Open the archive in PeaZip and doubleclick on an archived file to open and view its content

To enter password in PeaZip click in the padlock icon extract encrypted 7z file

in the status bar (in the file/archive browser) or the padlock icon below output address field in extraction or archiving interfaces, or click Tools > Enter password / keyfile in main menu, or press F9.
"Keyfile" is optional, leave it blank if you don't want to rely on two factor authentication - use of keyfile increases security over password only encryption since also having access to the keyfile will be required to perform the extraction.

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FAQ highlights: File types How to create, open extract 7-Zip's 7Z files? How to open and extract ACE files? How to open and extract CAB files? How to open and extract DMG, ISO, UDF disk images? How to create RAR files? How to open and extract RAR files? How to create, open and extract TAR/TGZ files on Windows and Linux? How to create, open extract ZIP files? How to open and extract ZIPX files?	File management How to backup files with PeaZip? How to convert existing archive files? How to find duplicate files: calculate checksum and hash, and compare files? How to share files with PeaZip? How to split and join files with PeaZip?
	Security How to encrypt archives? How to extract encrypted archives? How to protect files with PeaZip? How to securely delete files and folders with PeaZip?

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