It's not the most powerful of archive tools, but B1 Free Archiver's ease of use and ability to run just about anywhere ensure the program still has plenty of appeal. Double-click an archive and you can have it open in the full program, a simple version with just the core options (view, extract to various folders), always extract and prompt for a folder name, or extract immediately without any prompts at all (your files will be extracted to a new folder with the archive's name). There's also an unusually wide choice of default "open" actions. B1 Archiver is one of only a few archiver managers for the Linux platform that is reliably simple to use. The core options are a click or two away on the toolbar (Create, Open, Extract), and there are some handy extras in the menus (test your archive, display the current folder in an Explorer window, open a command prompt there). A Preview window displays the contents of some documents. A simple Explorer-type view makes it easy to find the files you need. The B1 Free Archiver interface is clear and straightforward. You also get various compression modes to help you find the right balance between speed and performance (Store, Smart, Classic, Maximum, Ultra). The program opens a good range of formats - zip, zipx, 7z, rar, tar, iso, cab, jar, qz, bz2, arj, deb and lzh on Windows, an impressive 37 on Android - although it only creates archives in zip and its own b1 format.Īrchives can be split as they're created, or password-protected with 256-bit AES encryption. B1 Free Archiver is a straightforward open-source archive manager for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. In this case, B1 Free Archiver was clearly behind as the RAR file was 30MB large, while the B1 archive reached 34.4MB, with the former finishing way ahead, in less than two minutes.
0 kommentar(er)
