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Expander - Handling Compressed Files

Squeezer is a commercial archiver for Zeta.

With Squeezer you can easily create, modify, view and extract files in your archives, all with an intuitive and fast interface completely integrated with the Tracker. The application can be ran both from the Tracker and from the Terminal.

Here is a list of the most important features of Squeezer:

- Handles multiple archives at the same time
- Supports multiple archivers through addons
- A rich set of supported supported archivers: zip, tar, gzip, compress, rar, bzip2 and lha
- Displays archive contents in an easy to use tree list
- Displays files without extracting them from the archive
- Add or extract files with drag and drop
- Rename or delete files in the archives
- Create directories in the archives
- A set of actions to quickly update your archives, which makes Squeezer a simple and effective tool to create and manage your backups
- A filtering option for even easier archive management
- Stores separate configuration settings for each archive
- Quickly access recently visited archives
- A Tracker add-on for easy creation of new archives
- A rich set of configuration options to better adapt its behaviour to your own needs
- Fully font sensitive interface

#### Default Paths

- Archive : default path for creating new archives.
- Extract : default path for extracting files.
- Extract to : sets where files will be extracted; if set to Extract path, the above mentioned Extract path will be used, if set to Archive path, the path where the archive resides will be used.
- Add : default path for adding new files to the archive.

#### Misc Options

- Language : sets the current language of the user interface, changes will take effect the next time Squeezer is launched.
- Size fo recent menu : sets the number of entries displayed by the Recent menu.
- Default archiver : sets the default archiver for creating a new archive.
- Replace files: sets the type of action performed by Squeezer when adding an already existing file to an archive; Never skips the new file, Ask user displays a requester asking the user what action should be performed, Always replaces the current file with the new one, When new file is more recent compares file dates and adds the new file only if it has a more recent date.
- Drag & Drop: when you drag and drop one or more files on a Tracker window Squeezer can extract them either with their complete path or without.
- At startup: sets the type of action performed by Squeezer when it's launched alone: it can either open the startup window (this was the only option in previous versions), open a file requester to create a new archive, open a file requester to select an existing archive or open the quick backup window.
- Check file types at startup : Checks if Squeezer is the default application for its supported archive types.
- Store interface status with archive : If selected, stores window status in the archive attributes for later use(see The Main Window for more details.
- Open destination folder after extraction : Opens the destination Tracker folder after an extraction action.
- Install Tracker Addons/Remove Tracker Addons : installs or removes currently available Tracker Addons for Squeezer.

#### The Main Window

General characteristics
Just as the Tracker uses a separate window for each directory, Squeezer reserves a window for each archive you open.

Moreover Squeezer stores by default the status of the window(size, position, sort mode, column size and position and toolbars status) within the archive, so as to be able to later reopen the archive with the same layout (can be disabled from the General Settings window).

The Menus

File

- New : Opens a requester to select the path and type of a new archive.
- Open : Opens a requester to select the archive to be opened.
- Open Recent : Opens a sub menu displaying a list of recent archives opened.
- Close : Closes the archive window, if there are changes pending for this archive, a requester asks for confirmation.
- Delete : Deletes the archive, after confirmation.
- Archive Info : Shows informations about the archive, such as type, number of files, compressed size and uncompressed size.

Edit

- Select All : Selects all entries in the archive.
- Deselect All : Deselects all entries in the archive.
- Invert Selection : Selects deselected entries and deselects selected entries in the archive.
- Fold All : Folds (hides contents) all directories.
- Unfold All : Unfolds (shows contents) all directories.

Actions

- Extract : See Viewing and Extracting Files for more details.
- Extract To : See Viewing and Extracting Files for more details.
- View : See Viewing and Extracting Files for more details.
- Test : See Testing Archives for more details.
- Add : See Adding Files for more details.
- Update : See Updating Archives for more details.
- Incremental Update : See Updating Archives for more details.
- Makedir : See Creating Directories for more details.
- Rename : See Renaming Files for more details.
- Delete : See Deleting Files for more details.
- Apply Changes : See Applying Changes for more details.

Filters

- Select Filters
- Edit Filters
- Use Filters : Switch to either enable or disable the selected filters.

Tools

- Quick Backup

Windows : List all currently open windows; selecting one of them will activate it.

Settings

- General Settings : Opens a window to configure the settings shared by the entire application.
- Window Settings : Opens a window to configure the settings for this window. See Window Settings for more details.
- Archiver Settings : Opens a window to configure the settings for the archiver in use. See Zip Settings, Tar GZip Settings, Tar BZip2 Settings, See Rar Settings, See Lha Settings, for more details.

Help

- Help Index : Shows the index page of this manual.
- Go To Squeezer Home: Shows the Squeezer home page on our web site (requires an active Internet connection).
- Write To intuiware : Launches your preferred e-mail application to write us.
- About Squeezer: Shows the about window of Squeezer, note that the URLs can be selected.

####
The Toolbars

The toolbars can be reduced to just a thin box by double-clicking inside their empty areas and can be restored to their previous status by double-clicking again the thin box (you can also select the display status of the toolbars inside the Window Settingswindow).

#### The Button Bar

The button bar offers a selected set of buttons for the most common actions available, all of them are also available in the Project and Action menus.
From left to right: Open, Extract, Extract To, View, Add, Makedir, Rename, Delete and Apply Changes.

#### The Status Bar

The small Squeezer icon on the left can be used to extract files by dragging it, see Viewing and Extracting Files for more details.
The gauge bar on the right displays the percentage of bytes selected in the archive, compared with the total number of bytes.

#### The Listview

The size of the columns in the listview can be changed by clicking and dragging the left or right borders of each column title.
The position of the columns can be changed by clicking inside the title area of a column and, while keeping the mouse button pressed, dragging the column to the left or right.
Columns can also be hidden: you can open a menu by right clicking on the column titles and select which column to hide in it.
The listview contents can be sorted both upwards and downwards by name, size, compressed size, ratio or date; just click on the column title of the column you want to sort to select the type of sorting you want(it cycles among upward sorting, downward sorting and no sorting). You can also chose to display the files and directories intermixed or separately sorted with an option available in the Window Settings window.
Items maintain their selection status even when hidden in a folded directory and, as expected, their selection status can be changed even when hidden (for example selecting the Select All option selects hidden items too).

Listview popup menu
Each item has an associated popup menu (activated by the secondary mouse button).
This popup menu offers a rich set of options to easily manipulate the items of your archive (current item refers to the item over which the menu has been opened):

- View : Shows current item, if it's a directory does nothing.
- Extract : Extracts current item.
- Rename : Renames current item.
- Delete : deletes current item.
- Fold : Folds the directory containing the current item or, if the item is a directory, folds the item itself.
- Unfold : Unfolds the current item if it's a directory, otherwise does nothing.
- Select : Selects current item, if this item is a directory, selects the directory and, recursively, all files and directories contained in this directory.
- Deselect : Deselects current item, if it's a directory, deselects the directory and, recursively, all files and directories it contains.

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