Archiving options: General

Archive name

Specify the name of archive to create or update. You can enter the name manually or press "Browse" button to locate an existing archive or folder. If archive name extension is not specified, it will be appended automatically. If path to archive is missing, current folder is assumed. "Archive name" label is clickable and switches between current folder, internal SD card root folder and, if external card and Android 4.4 or newer are available, external card.

RAR, ZIP or RAR 4.x

Select the archive format. RAR option means RAR 5.0 archive format, which usually provides better compression ratio, data recovery and encryption options, while ZIP is more widespread and can be unpacked by a larger number of different software programs. Select RAR 4.x to create an archive in RAR 4.x format, compatible with WinRAR 4.x versions. RAR 5.0 format has more efficient recovery record, stronger encryption and typically higher compression than RAR 4.x. So use RAR 4.x, only if archive must be unpacked by software lacking RAR 5.0 decompression support.

Set password

Encrypt archiving files with a password. For maximum security it is recommended to use RAR format, which utilizes a stronger encryption algorithm, to avoid passwords shorter than 8 characters, to avoid common words as passwords.

Delete files after archiving

If archiving has completed successfully, original files will be deleted.

Create solid archive

This option is available only for RAR format and only for new archives. It is ignored when updating an existing archive. If it is enabled, all files in archive are handled as one continuous data stream. It helps to improve the compression ratio, especially for many small similar files. While creating a new solid archive requires about the same time as usual non-solid archive, updating files and extracting individual files in solid archives is much slower than in non-solid. It is not recommended to use solid mode if you plan to update an archive in the future. Also solid archives are more sensitive to data damage. Unlike usual archives, all files after damaged one most probably will also be damaged.

Profiles

This button allows to save current settings from all archiving dialog pages to profile, to select settings previously stored in profiles and to organize profiles. You can mark one of profiles as default in "Organize profiles", so it will be selected automatically when opening the dialog. Default profile is denoted by a solid circle before its name, other profiles have an empty circle preceding the profile name in list of saved profiles. "Save current settings as default" command saves settings to profile with "Default profile" name and marks it as the default in single step. Some settings, such as archive name, password and selected files, are not stored in the profile. Part of default profile options is also used in context menu and clipboard archiving operations.