Use Q7Z if you want to:

- Update existing archives quickly
- Backup multiple folders to a storage location
- Create or extract protected archives
- Lessen effort by using archiving profiles and lists

Ark (2.6.3) is handy but it doesn't seem to:

- Create archives with passwords
- Extract (some) archives with passwords
- Update existing archives by default

Q7Z is a simple application that attempts to fill these voids. It probably won't become a total archiving solution.

Requirements:

· Python
· Qt
· PyQt
· GNU make
· GNU tar
· p7zip

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

All:
· Main dialog: redesigned to reduce clutter
· Switches option: to add custom command-line arguments
· Icons: borrowed from the Oxygen theme when possible
· Menu entries: added 'Verbose' and 'Review' for debugging
· Verbose mode: now more consistently implemented
· Tarball option: removed to simplify the execution code
· Code structure: several minor changes

Linux:
· Options files: to choose preferred external apps
· Autopackage script: is now available for all distributions
· Help menu: added a link to the Autopackage website
· XZ format: is now also available for compression
· KDE4 Service Menus: now feature the proper separators again
· GNU Tar: is now used to create BZip2 and GZip archives
· Permissions: are now preserved when extracting archives
· Destination folder: is now created before archiving
· Python processes: now use the new 'subprocess' module