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

What’s New:
Lots of small changes and fixes, together with ones above. Please test your reported issues and let us know if they have been fixed.

@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!

Hello @Skybird
We show that one of the support tickets was replied to with information on how to obtain your PACL registration through your account at www.conexware.com/shop as PACL uses a different registration code.
Maybe it went to Spam?

Regardless, we have manually created your PACL license and have sent it to your email.

Thanks!

tx @guido
logged in

Fixed in .55

Not fixed in .55.

But I found a new issue. Just resize the windows and you will see that the monkey wrench will disappear.

19f48e64-e21f-46f3-9cae-59d79a1ba578-image.png

thanks @guido
logging in

fixed in .55

I think i’ve solved the problem. You have set up a user with limited options programs like powerarchiver need to be allowed certain options in windows same for Adobe. You might wnat to set up a new user with exactly the same options as the other users and see if that solves the issue

Hi @dougw

Please contact us at support at conexware dot come and we’ll sort you out.

Thanks!

Thanks very much @wilsonp
We have logged it in for fixing.

The icons on the RHS of the title bar are very small and thin - I didn’t notice the help button there.

In my Ribbon Interface under Options I don’t see a register button.

PA2021-OptionsRibbon.png

Here is the File Menu - the Windows standard was for menu options that open dialogs to end in an ellipsis, but Options does not:

PA2021-FileMenu.png

Perhaps I should say never mind… the Ribbon doesn’t appear to follow that standard in Office in any case.

Thanks!

@spwolf said in Support for Windows XP:

Is that the only PC you use for PowerArchiver?

Yes.

they are using PowerArchiver name to lure people to their website.

fixed in .50
thanks @Tumeez for your help!

We’ve let the dev team know so they could make sure it appears when it is supposed to
thanks all!

hey @Brian-Gregory
Sorry for the late reply. We’ve tested and confirmed the bug and have logged it in for fixing.

thanks for letting us know!

@BigMike

Thanks… After combing through the GNUPG docs and not finding anything I suspected they belonged to PA. What is odd is that I have not created nor imported any keys into PA yet.

I would think (hope) you don’t have to manage them separately as having separate keyrings could lead to problems. Hopefully someone from PA can chime in on this?

seems to be fixed

Thanks for your help @Brian-Gregory !!

thanks @2Flo

logging in the bug for fixing, and will see about implementing the installation inside the PA installer.

hi @MrAngelus

Thanks very much for the update. Was able to reproduce it now and am logging it in for fixing. PowerArchiver indeed does not show the files properly.

Thanks again and have a great Christmas!

hey @bigdog
version .59 is showing up in Patchbeam properly now, thanks!

Hi @thomas-k
please send us an email to support at conexware dot com and we’ll help out.
Just tested sending codes here, they arrived immediately. It might be the email spam filtering our registration email.
Send us an email and we can send the registration email and/or send it to you via support.
thanks!

Just to report back: Fixed in 19.00.58

Just to report back: Still not working in 19.00.58

You’re welcome!

logged in to bring them back to the yellow icons, thanks @skypx !

Hi @a-borque,
Good question!
Yes, packmp3 was added in PA 2019 and is now fully compatible with WinZip

Hello,

We have sent a reply through support regarding the .PA format availability, let us know if you did not receive it by any chance. Thanks!

tried to reproduce this on a couple of machines and the issue did not appear in either case;
Drawing.JPG

can you export your settings in the config dropdown please, compress them to 7z and send them over to support at conexware dot com and will try to reproduce that way.

Also, which windows theme do you have selected?
Does the issue appear with this zip file only or it appears on others as well?

Thanks!

@spwolf said in PA 19.00.57 crashes Firefox 69.0.1 in module pashlext64.dll | UserCallWinProcCheckWow:

@2Flo unfortunately that does not help.

BUT

we will have a new version of dll soon, so you can check with that specifically.

@2Flo we have sent you a test build via direct message in the forums. Thank you!

And they can even cause errors.

pi2.PNG

Which format files are you looking to preview?
Alt+P enables and disables preview in explorer.
If possible, please send us a screenshot of how it looks, we’ll do our best to assist.

Thanks BigMike,

I hate to say it , VM has a wide range of documentated cases like these the one’s i know of doing what i suggested helps, but not in all cases.

Then your talking more time to investigate, which is when the question is raised why not do a rebuild seeing that this isnt an issue being replicated on other VM’s.

But, it’s not a PowerArchiver problem as i’ve seen this across many other platforms and dll’s.

Sorry i couldnt help further buddy, if you do manage to figuire it out please share we would love to hear from you again.

Kind Regards,
RJWaring

Actually I think deleteing the file from the archive before adding the updated version again may not be working quite right either. The resulting .pa file seems to get larger!

For now I will just delete the whole .pa archive and re-create it. It’s probably quicker in many cases too.

For starters.

checkmark on a different line then the buttons Wider buttons remove a lot of frames.

move the label with the text "bestandsnaam: above the textbox. Sorry, normally my arrow points to the wrongdoing. Not this time.
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thanks @guido !!!

@spwolf I just tested it

Extracted it 4 more depths inside folders (7 folders in total) than the last try, which was 3 folders in depth. Same settings

The program was not executed. It seems that the fix has worked :D

Thank you all for your involvement in fixing this bug!

@GiovanninettiR I assume this was simply PA format compressing pst file really well? I think we have even some special settings for PST and quite large dictionary which leads to great compression. Thanks!

Hi.

On the mobile version of the forums, in the options from the left side ‘Search’ appears twice.

Illustration here

Thank you!

hey @bigdog

are you referring to the Add option being the only option in the Action dropdown in the Add screen?

finally got it reproduced and logged in, thanks all!

@JoeS said in Searching for the specific Regkeys needed to default new installations in Modern Windows 10 not dark view:

When I push PowerArchiver 2019.00.50 by MSI, new installations come up dark. I know that I can put the registry keys I need to control user settings in firstrun.reg, but I haven’t been able to isolate the ones that I want. Specifically, I don’t want to open up in Dark Mode.

So far I have tried “MySkinDir”=“C:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\SKINS\Light Solitude\”

Thanks

It is best to wait for next build where windows ribbon will be default… we will also have a new gui tool for commonly used settings out very soon. Thanks!

@spwolf I am afraid that I will not be able to correctly understand the question, because I speak English badly. I will try to summarize my last post. I switched to using the Classic Simple (fastest) skin and now I do not have such a problem. But if I switch to the Light Solitude skin, then I begin to experience this problem. All of the above is also true for version 19.00.50.

P.S. I apologize. After I gave the answer, I realized that the message was not to me. Now I understand everything.

@moles42 said in Missing or ugly SFX-Icon:

I think that pixelated icon has been around a long time if memory serves.

yeah, ZIP SFX has been around forever… we were rewriting it last year but the main problem we had is that today, new SFX’s are considered in many cases as false positives. So no matter how hard we tried, we had at least >10 false positive warnings for new SFX.

@Mili

Thanks a lot. I could finally have a single archiving app on my system after all those years.
Keeping fingers crossed!

I’m trying running with the Indexing Service disabled on both my PCs now because it’s useless and just sticks on certain files which there is no easy way to identify.

I don’t think I’m going to miss it because I already tend to use WHERE /r from the command line to find files since it usually gets results much quicker anyway.

thanks!!

Hi @joakim_46
We have improved the extraction and the file should now be extracted fine.
Extracted fine in our tests here.
Here it is:
https://powerarchiver.cachefly.net/2019/powarc190048.exe

Please let us know if it works Ok for you as well and thanks for reporting it.

@spwolf said in PA 19.00.47 spurious messsage when extracting particular .pa file.:

@Brian-Gregory please check this release:
https://powerarchiver.cachefly.net/2019/powarc190048.exe

and see if it works properly… @Mili and I didnt have much time to test yet. Thanks!

Seems to work fine so far.
Thanks.

This is the return of a previous issue. With an archive open and the file list longer than the window display, typing the first letter of the file in the list to jump to the first entry does not work. It will work if a file name starting with that letter is visible in the list window, but not otherwise.

I am using version 19.00.47 64 bit.

This happens when I log in as a Standard User without administrator rights and run the PowerArchiver as an administrator.
If I log in as an admin, there is no such problem. If I log in as a non admin and run the archiver as a standard user account without administrator rights, then this problem also does not exist.

hah! those darn weird bugs :)
If it happens again, please do let us know.

@Brian-Gregory said in PA 19.00.43 Queue re-enabled every Windows reboot:

Hello? Are there any intelligent lifeforms out there?

Maybe… Enable PA 2019 Queue starts Starter when you check it (it asks for it)… but it will not start Starter at computer restart unless you check Start… box.
Reason for this is for people not have to look for starter in Program Files folder when they want to see what is it.

Thank you, now it works! The message is gone.

thanks for the updated information @Michael72
Yes, any time Extreme method is used, it is unrecognized by windows explorer extractor on xp when extracting.
We’ve logged it in, let’s see what can be done.

Thanks @Michael72
gonna test this out to confirm as well and log it in.
We’ll reply with further questions if needed.
thanks again!

:thumbs_up:

Hi @Michael72

thanks for the details!
We have confirmed both issues and both are logged in for fixing/addressing.
Not sure if PA will be able to set share setting to On, but the dev team will check it out.
Thanks for letting us know.

@spwolf Doesn’t make a difference when use the view option.

Should appear fine now in version .43
https://powerarchiver.cachefly.net/2019/powarc190043.exe

thanks for the help @Merowinger

Thank you for sharing the information it was helpful.