MaxPower85

AppleArchive support

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It seems that Apple has included a command line utility that can create .yaa archives since High Sierra... but there don't seem to be a lot of articles about it...

Let's discuss LRZIP and what Keka should do with it

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First, I think the LRZIP tab needs to mention which version of LRZIP is used and to maybe have like some "tooltip" message when you hover the mouse pointer over...

So... I did some tests about how to preserve the resource forks only with what's included with the system

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I was experimenting with this for a while... trying out different ways to preserve resource forks with different kinds of archives... and I discovered some interesting ways to do it...

Use ditto when creating .zip (PKZip) to preserve the resource forks in .zip archives

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Since ditto can preserve resource forks in a .zip (PKZip format) archive just like the Archive Utility can, without using .tar, there should be an option that uses ditto to...

Compressing tar.xz uses kekaxz and it only seems to be using 2 threads and one core... use 7z with the -txz option instead

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Looking at the Activity Monitor, kekaxz seems to be used if you have "Always tarbal..." checked in the Preferences instead of the 7z... and for some reason, kekaxz seems to...

I have not updated to Catalina yet, but since Catalina added those new widgets, I think it might be better if the development of this app went into that direction,...

The "@" and "â" characters and .traineddata for Tesseract 4 for some languages which should recognize those... but there seem to be recognition issues

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I've tried .traineddata from here https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata and from here https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_fast for some languages like Serbian Latin, Croatian and Turkish and they seemed to have major issues recognizing the "@" character...

When you package your app, you could use ditto --hfsCompression and put it in a .dmg, so the app would take less space on disk

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When you uncompress ImageOptim1.8.0.tar.bz2, Get Info says that it has 9.3 MB on disk. If you use `ditto --hfsCompression ` and put the app in a .dmg (so it would...

Can you make 7zip not rearrange files in alphabetical order (when it writes them to .zip archives), so the __MACOSX folder and the AppleDouble files for resource forks / extended attributes could be added to .zip archives in a way that's compatible with archivers that support recreating resource forks / extended attributes from those?

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As you probably know, preserving resource forks / extended attributes can be very important for some files like old Mac fonts... it's important for aliases that are created in Finder...

Since the macOS has a feature to merge windows into tabs, it would be good if ImageAlpha opened images in tabs by default when multiple images are opened... although it's...