PA Queue does not compress file optimally with same parameters if used in Queue mode.

Being able to save advanced option, and set a default profile and archive type for compression so I can save clicks.

The above two are majorly affecting my efficiency with archiving stuff with PA 20.10.03.

Can someone confirm if they are resolved with the 2022 RC1?

@spwolf The restriction of toolbar buttons seems to work with PA2022 21.0.10.0, but the nag still appears, when I’m trying to enter the settings dialog for the internal viewer:
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There are new buttons for “Recent files” and “Encryption”. Are there also registry keys to disable them? I can’t find any in the wiki.

@spwolf I’ll do that, and let you know.

@spwolf Additions:
I sent a txt file of the registry to support, but now I
tried to install PA on my Surface Pro 7 with W11 and the problem is there too.
The same behavior, when I open PA, it is functional and registered, if for any file
I right-click and select e.g. wrap or unwrap, a registration request pops up immediately.
So it’s not a single computer problem. (This information as a second email also sent to support.)

@spwolf Thank you, this solved the problem.

@godlydevils said in Does PA supports Intel's zlib?:

There would be many of us with Intel Processors.

and they have their own optimized zlib algorithm, which can result in more efficiency if used combined with their hardware processor.

Reference:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/zlib-compression-whitepaper-copy.pdf

Can we get the same Functionality Under Hardware Acceleration Feature?

Zlib is not the only feature that intel has included with their processor, there’s many, which if combined can result in efficient and better compression ratios.

i have been going through some older posts, so i have to respond to this - apologies.

Intel’s zlib is terrible piece of code full of bugs, i think we still have some bugs opened with Intel about it as we used Intel compiler for a while. And PA’s deflate is actually faster.

Consider it a PR piece that does not work.

@lxworld can you please explain a bit better what is happening, what kind of errors are you getting and how are you trying to extract archives? thank you

@tumeez said in what to do if the support doesnt answer since weeks?:

@khanyash said in what to do if the support doesnt answer since weeks?:

@tumeez said in what to do if the support doesnt answer since weeks?:

My problem is that your system doesn’t let me log in, even I asked reset password and change it and make sure that I write new one correctly, because I use Bitwarden, there isn’t possibility to typo it.

I have faced the login problem once. I also use a password manager. What I did was reset the password to 10 characters, no special characters. It had fixed the problem for me.

Thank you, this solved my problem. I’m disappointed that @spwolf or @Mili never answered to me. I’m still loyal PA user and will use it at future.

I am glad you managed to solve the problem!

please contact support@conexware.com, thank you.

Verified: Uninstalling PowerArchiver from the system solved the issue.
I can now burn ISO files to the DVD-RW / CD-R Disc.

@zr21 said in Can't drag from archive to folder:

I’m using 20.10.02. When I try to drag files from an opened zip to a folder in Windows File Explorer, PA does nothing. It uses a CPU core and starts the clock, but no action is taken. I have to end task in task manager to get it to close.

Try 20.10.03. I think it’s fixed in 20.10.03.

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see image. the bottom of yes and no are cut off

Yes, of course.

@lb69 Well I don’t have such an old version available to test and I’d like to know where you think you are going to get an old version from if you don’t already have it.

@alexgieg @Mili

Hey @godlydevils

We have the issue with que setup as a priority fix for PA 2022 and we’re starting work on it soon.
We’ll post test versions here to check out and give us feedback on the fix.

thanks for your help!

@spwolf Yes. Maybe the first step would just be that you could fill in something like:
.apk=.zip .info=.txt
in the configuration to say .apk files are always to be treated like .zip files and .info are always to be treated like .txt.
Also either
=.zip
or maybe
.=.zip
would mean files with no extension are to be treated like .zip.

It would be nice to be able to configure this on a directory by directory basis but I can’t really see a good way to do that without it also making things rather complicated.

The best I can come up with would be to say that you could store the configuration in a file in the directory with a special name and PA would know not to store that special named file and would instead use it to adjust the configuration. Something like .PAConfiguration

@spwolf Yes, the fix seems to be working, thank you.

@spwolf said in "The specified account already exists" error:

@KoloheWiz:

The latest release - PA 2016 - will not complete installation. No matter what it ends with the “The specified account already exists” error. I start the update process using the Check For Update button under Configuration>Auto Update. The new version downloads and begins to install but stops abruptly with the “The specified account already exists” error.

I have a screenshot and the log file but no way to post them here. I have no URL to post the image to because I do not own any domains. IMHO, that should NOT be the only way to add an image or log file to a forum post as there are more people without a domain than ones that do. For that matter, “Insert Image” doesn’t mean the same as “Insert Image Link” which is what the button should read for accuracy purposes.

This usually means something is wrong with your Windows Installer, usually setup repository got wiped out.

Try cleaning PowerArchiver entry from Windows Installer database by using MSI Clean Up tool:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_installer_cleanup_utility.html

That should delete PowerArchiver previous version from registry and then you should be able to install new one.

As to the images - in the future, you can use imgur.com to post links to image files, They are very reliable and great image host.

thanks!

very common error among all the versions of windows.

Thanks Milli as always.
Irfranview can save files at TGA if you’re looking for a free app.

Hi @mili,

To be honest I gave up after a week of trying and with no reply here within that time.

I do regret buying PowerArchiver when I now use it for nothing more than 7zip can do (compress and archive files).

I thought with paid-for software like this there might be support that replied within a few working days of a request for help.

I’d be grateful if you could delete my forum profile here please and any data the you hold for me.

Rich.

Hello. My problem with Powerarchiver is as follows:
First of let me say that I am running a Windows 7 Starter edition on my Toshiba NB505 laptop. You can see my specs if you google it. Needless to say that it has very limited resources and has low ram and roughly 1.66 GHz Atom processor.

I am currently using the latest version of PA. But mostly the tasks I do with it are create and uncompress zip files, as this comes in handy with my needs for compressing older files which I dont need. There is where it comes my issue with program and it is just that version after version it becomes harder for my computer to load and create zip files and 7zip ones. Needless to say that the same goes for zipx.

I have been using PA for a decade and its a good program but it is just that the current version has things which I don’t need or seldom use it, such as the preview file panel, and also the explorer tabs, skin customization and the nagging conexware update tool. Thus I was just asking, Does it exist a minimalistic version of PA or perhaps some ultra light version of it?. Something which it can be run on older computers.

Please don’t say to install an older version or going back to 2003, as well, this is not what I had in mind. I know that I could use the command line version but for me usng a GUI is more convenient. Regsrding compression speeds, I mostly use deflate for legacy zip files on the fast setting.

So far what I am doing is to set PA to use the classic skin windows view and while it does alleviate some of the lagging symptoms it doesn’t really seem to make the program to run or load faster.

Any help or advice on my problem?. By the way, I use the PRO version as that’s my current license. By the way, does PA has any pdf user’s manual or reference book? I see there are changes and numerous functionality that has been added but I have no clue on how to use it. I hope somebody could help me with that as well.

Hi @Brian-Gregory

We tested the conversion to zip in the latest version and it seems to work OK, as in below screenshot

Convert test.PNG

Could you send us a screenshot of the settings in the converter prior to executing the conversion, we will test the same.

Thanks!!

@spwolf

I will be honest with you.

You release minor versions because you fixed bugs, optimized performance/code.
,
You release major version because you added new features, made overhaul to the software, and it’s competitively better than old major release.

However, all your releases had same bugs, same outcome, I hardly notice any difference between resulting compressed archives, there are no new algorithms, there’s no optimization or performance improvements, and no new features.

Many devs have made it a hobby to release new major versions to sell new software due to major upgrade.

also, don’t wish to go offtopic, but ConeXware’s Encryption suite has never been updated, it has same visual and operational bugs, yet you guys are selling it openly, without disclosing the fact that software is no longer supported.

I feel the same with this software.

P.S. commenting after 12 days, there’s no minor version update yet. as per your 10 days statement.

@mili

Hi Mili,

I wish to completely customize the default PA profile.

so whenever I start archive from shell, i do not have to go to advanced options and customize the plzma(size and entropy model), zstandard(levels & size), ppmd_sh(sizes) options.

not having to select zlib level, dictonary size, method optimize strong, compression level extreme.

there are various options that I would like to modify for the “PA Default” profile so I do not have to create any new profile.

Thank you!

Hello,

Here are the latest versions to try:

http://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2021/powarc201002x64.msi
http://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2021/powarc201002x86.msi

Please let us know if that works. Thanks!

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The speed is too high to show properly.

@f16akias said in PowerArchiver shell extensions possibly crashing windows explorer.exe:

@spwolf Well I can confirm that I have never again encountered any Bex64 errors while using 20.00.73 and now 20.10.02 versions. No bex in logs nor explorer.exe restart-refresh.

@spwolf , @Mili , @ivan and the rest team thanks for solving this one, powerarchiver is again the best utility

Thank you so much for your great bug report and all the version checks!

@mili said in Configure Clouds Box:

thanks @brian-gregory

We have tried to reproduce this on a couple of computers and could not reproduce it.
Could you provide a couple of reproduction steps for us to try here?
And/Or screenshot and reg file to support at conexware dot com so that we can try that as well.
Once we reproduce it, in any of those method, we can log it in for fixing.

Will keep trying to reproduce it here as well.

Thanks!

Files sent.

Is there a command line to include the Registration Code when pushing an install using Microsoft Intune/Endpoint Manager?

I am able to push the software, but I’d like the PowerArchiver to be registered when it gets to the workstation instead of entering the Registration Code on each workstation individually.

Thanks

I confirm issue #1 doesn’t happen anymore in v20.10.02.
Thanks for fixing :)

I confirm this doesn’t happen anymore in v20.10.02.
Thanks for fixing :)

it is up now on the website… thanks!

Would be a help if you can share your archive in case thats whats cauing the problem.

@mili I understand, you play it safe. I would have preferred to have the option to choose if I wanted to add the suffix or not, but I understand that you have made this decision.

Thanks for your time

@luxor Indeed it does show as registered when I click on about. Thanks much. Looks like I am now an official bug finder. :D

@Mili Thanks for mentioning this- I think I actually want to change it off the modern interface.

Thanks @ACE135
We have noticed the same when reproducing and have logged it in for fixing.

Thanks again!

Hi @bassplayerchris
The PA format is not an included upgrade to PowerArchiver licenses that were purchased before the PA format existed. PowerArchiver with Advanced Codec Pack (.PA format) is the version that includes the PA format.
All other features/options that were included with PowerArchiver before before the Advanced Codec Pack are updated accordingly and will remain as upgrades for you for all upcoming major and minor upgrades.

Hope that helps.
Thanks!

@davidsplash

Yes, we became aware of it as someone else reported it as well. We have it on the list for the next update.

Thanks!

I confirm the icon set is Red.

@Mili Did you receive my email? I’m waiting for your reply.

While this seem to have been fixed in the x64 version 20.0.0.73, it seems to happen now with the x86 version

Thansk for the details @bradnagel
We have logged these in for fixing.

Which format archive are you working with when the pause/cancel buttons do not work?
Are you compressing or extracting?

I’m using the Kaspersky Total Security.

I have configured PA as exclusion as followed:

PA Exclusion.png

and also is set us trusted application

PA Trusted Application.png

Scenario:

My Antivirus likes to scan for everything, and it’s safeguarding behavior is to prevent the access to the file until the file is properly scanned for.

The issue:

PA when losses the access to file, it is stuck, consumes Resources, and never completes the process or throws any error

Recommendation:
PAStarter should also work as PAMonitor:
There should be a monitoring process, at least if I’m using queuing feature, that should check for never ending compression processes and terminate them so the queue can be little bit automated.

Also,
There should be multiple attempts at retrying if PA loses access to or is denied, instead of having to see process was stuck for longer duration.

Or, better, save the parameters I used for keeping the files in compression, and automatically restart the whole compression process after termination the same, of same folders and files set, this should happen in case if compression was stuck.

If you use Queue Feature, you are not saving on space, you are just squeezing less.

Here’s explaination:

https://youtu.be/XcxG2wxyink

I did test the same on multiple files, and of different types.

It does have large difference for each large file you are trying to squeeze.

Folders with multiple files, just have no benefits if you use Queue Feature

Thanks @a-borque

There were updates to the skinning and interface components in latest version. We have confirmed the issue in the portable version and have logged it in for fixing in the next version.

Thanks for letting us know!

If you have tabbed archive browsing(reuse same window for all archive opening)
and if you open two archives, and right click on older one to view properties it will only show of the recent archive that was opened, on all tabs/archives

upgraded to 20.0.73

@2flo
Yes, you’re all good to install it on the two machines and use them as mentioned. You will be using PowerArchiver within the terms of use.

hello @a-borque

The portable version is ready and our download page has been updated with the link for the latest portable version.

Thanks!

hi @trparky
We thought we had fixed this in the last update, but we did not unfortunately. :(
Will be fixed in the next update.

hi @davidsplash
We’ll add this suggestion to the dev team, they’ll take a look.
When you have a moment, please send us a sample uha file, we’ll add it to the suggestion.
You can attach it here or send it to support.

Thanks!!

hello @zornestech
Yes, PowerArchiver does have right click compression which is also configurable from PowerArchiver’s Configuration options.
The right click options are available for easy compression and extraction, tools access and more.

Let us know if you have any further questions.

Thanks!

patchbeam a waste of time never updated with latest version

hi @gavb
could you please send screenshots of how it looks on both monitors and what the resolutions/DPI scale is on both, we’ll take a look.
Please send to support at conexware dot com

thanks!

Hi @anaru-sensei

Our SFX component, at the moment, has some limits. We have logged this in for our dev team to check out and see if it is possible to implement.

Thanks!

Hi,

So refer this screenshot:

image_2020-12-30_115129.png

The properties panel that you see, is what I tried to compress, using PA, with following settigs:
Extreme Strong optimize
https://forums.powerarchiver.com/assets/uploads/files/1609079025475-image_2020-12-27_195344.png

The process was stuck at 0% with no progress for over 8 Hours:

PA.png

Then the usual, clicking will make it go not responding.

So, I could not get the files compressed using PA.

I tried 7zip, and it worked, so that’s 1 issue.

PA shows incorrect original(before compression) size of total contents.

Refer the first screenshot.
folder’s size is shown correctly in 7ZIP
but not in powerarc.

this happens with every archive, whether they are compressed in PA or not, whether it has only 1 file, or multiple files inside multiple directory.

Neither does the archive property panel shows original content’s size.

@mili It was never really fixed very satisfactorily.

Ok, I should have done this first. I upgraded to PA 2021, instead of uninstalling and reinstalling. I did that now, and it took care of the problem. Must have been something with upgrading from the previous version too the new one.

I resolved the issue.

How to reproduce(it is my assumption):
Install the older version of PA 2021 than this, the one that came before x.x.62
run it once, then install the current version.

PA queue & PASTARTER will get bugged.

I got the issue resolved as I had to reinstall OS which has resolved the queue issue for me.

this is the same reason mili was not able to replicate the issue, because she runs a fresh environment for all testing.

Hi,

You can obtain the original file from here:

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/in/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/lenovo-y-series-laptops/y50-70-notebook-lenovo/80ej/59428436/cb32343883/downloads/driver-list/component?name=Power%20Management

For Lenovo Y50-70 win 7 x64 bit, power management, get lenovo energy management

Run the exe it will extract the installable drivers to C:\drivers

I tried to compress the whole folder using PA using following parameters:
Extreme, strong optimize.
image_2020-12-27_195344.png

This resulted in negative compression.

However same file is compressed by 7zip alpha, with positive compression:

PA Negative compression.png

I understand that there are different algorithms, parameters used, and totally different software with unique sets of logics programmed, but see if compression algo can be optimized for such files.

@Mili said in BUG: Dragging and dropping not working, hangs:

hey @AluminumHaste
thanks for all the details
have managed to reproduce this. During our testing, it didn’t occur every time but did manage to reproduce it and record it, will be enough for the dev team to fix it. logged in, thanks again!

Awesome thank you!

Should be fixed now and properly showing. Thanks everyone, sorry for the wait

Hi @ACE135

While testing this, noticed that archives are not opened in a new tab while an archive is opened in PA, even without an active extraction process.
Logging it in for fixing in the next update, thanks for letting us know!

@Mili I have emailed one of the smaller files that has the problem.

Thanks @chrullrich
testing it out now to make sure it does not occur in future updates from 2019 to 2021

we appreciate everyone’s help!

My slow ring still reads as 19.00.59… will it ever offer an update to 2021 or is that something I must do manually?

No. No other program installation, not registry cleaning. I just noticed it while installing and opening PA during bex64 testing…
It just comes once, I cannot reproduce it more than once at least with version 20.00.58 and +
It’s really fine for me, it’s minor even if it’s considered a bug at all

thanks for the details @aionel_net
We have logged the issue in for fixing and have added the suggestion to open a new PA window upon double clicking an archive inside an archive, when tabs are disabled.
Lets see what the dev team says.

thanks again!

thanks very much @trparky
we’ll log this in and fix it up. much appreciated!

Thanks @Mili, I got it working.

Thanks all!
We have confirmed the bug and it’s logged in for fixing.
It works OK when drag and dropping the specific folder out of the archive, but it does not when using the extract button on a file/folder.

Thanks for your help!

No, PowerArchiver doesn’t have this functionality.

Hi @drteeth
as a temporary fix, please delete PAVD2021.EXE from the installation folder and install virtual drive again, then it should work fine until we fix it so the error doesn’t appear at all.

Thanks!

hi @davidsplash
we’re fixing Patchbeam and should work fine in the coming update

thanks!

hey @khanyash
Yes, still logged in. We had some priorities to solve for the final update prior to this issues. I have just bumped it so it can be solved as soon as possible
thanks for the reminder

Thanks @khanyash
We have it logged in for fixing

hey @guido
Thanks for the report!
We’re aware of it, the issue is on the components side at the moment, we’re looking to implement the fix once it is released.

Thanks for your help @Brian-Gregory

Hi,
I have come across some strange behaviour that must not be by design.
This happens under different, though similar circumstances.
This is how to reproduce it.
Find a large-ish archive. I used a 3GB archive as I have a fast PC. Load the archive and test it. Now one just has a window showing the test progress. Now click on a window under the progress window and now you can see the bug. I have a PA icon on my taskbar and it does NOT have a line underneath it to indicate that it is loaded and there is no easy way to get the window back until it appears after the testing. Other progress windows are similar.
The only way to get the progress window back is to use taskmanager.
The expected behaviour is that there will be some indication that PA is loaded and that one can use it to bring the progress window to the top.
OT:- When viewing a text file in PA, there is a line does the middle of the window - when will it be removed?
Cheers
DrT

@Microft said in Access Violations, Cloud Issues and No 4K Support:

3840 x 2160

thanks for your help @Microft
Responded to your support ticket.

@Mili Thanks for the update, and you’re welcome.

I’ll wait to hear about the icons which, as I mentioned, I seem to recall having been a minor glitch in the past, but otherwise .56 is excellent.

@Mili

It only shows up for a split second, you have to really be paying attention. If I had to hazard a guess, the code that loads the fact that it’s a registered version isn’t loaded early enough during the application initialization phase.

Logged in, thx @PA_Fan

Hi @Mili , Further to the original post by @trparky why can’t current lifetime licence holders test 2021, I’ve had my licence a long time and have always used betas prior to 2019. Thanks

sorry about that - this has been fixed!

hi @wroustan
thanks for the information, logging this in for fixing

New version:
20.00.56

Download:
https://powerarchiver.cachefly.net/2021/powarc200056.exe

Release Notes - PowerArchiver - Version 20.00.56

** Bug
* [PA-2806] - Nag from shell in dark ribbon interface shows dark letters
* [PA-2810] - Extracting to network drive does not work
* [PA-2812] - skins not applied in shell

@Alpha-Testers

Yes! That was it. Thank you very much! thumbsup

@TheAndyMac said in Fast Ring: PowerArchiver 2021 20.00.53:

Having one issue with the RC1 - when extracting a zip file using drag and drop to a network share, it prompts for UAC - which I allow - and prompts again, and then keeps on flashing up but not extracting anything - and there is now way to close it down other than logging off/shutting down. Seems like the UAC handling is broken at present. This is not an issue with the current production version, where I use this a lot of the time.

@Mili will take a look at this!

thanks for the kind words @Konglomat !!!
stay safe and healthy!