@steje:

I will certainly use either the email or forums here in the future. I’m not complaining about a lack of support response or anything :-).

Please realize - I posted simply to ‘question’ if the support ‘Form’ was intended to be used anymore because I didn’t get a response and because the latest version in the list was quite old. The last part in particular happens sometimes when companies switch their support model at a point in time and neglect to update older links, etc…

And I only continued to try in case you wanted to figure out why it wasn’t working. But I’m content to just move on with life :-).

Hey Steje, we know you mean well :-).

Thats why I asked you to send email, please send it - it uses same support system. I want to check if that works for you.

We keep getting support emails via web form all the time, so it is weird that it does not work for you.

Thank you!

pae/pae2 require full decryption of the file first, so basically they use aes 256bit. they can not quickly check hash to see if guessed password is correct.

When you click say New, enter a folder, set up your job, then click close, why not get that screen to send a message to the main screen (with the now out dated list), to pass the folder used and to tell it to refresh? Obviously I do not know all the details of your program - but that is just what I would have tried in my software.

Top is after I have adjusted all the column widths, then I exit and reload, bottom image.

“When you do everything right, no one notices … when you stuff just one thing up, everyone notices!”

FYI. I just added a new folder in DropBox that is alphabetically prior to the one that was in there when I first noted the problem. The contents of that folder now appear as the contents of every folder when clicking on folder names in the right pane. The contents are still correct when clicking on folder names in the left (navigation) pane.

great idea!

thanks, we will check it out. I dont remember this correctly, but I know that encrypted filenames is only part of zip spec thats patented. I have to investigate this further.

@spwolf:

what happens when you click on click here in upper window?

I get the following window (similar to the non debug version, when I get the runtime error 217):

@Socrates:

I don’t know how you all do it. There are so many ways well-designed software can go wrong. As users we forget that it is not just the integrity of one piece of software, but how well it plays with everything else on every user’s machine.

Couldn’t agree more. :)

thank you… I cant believe how many people noticed 05/06 snafu.

please check this release:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/release15/powarc150106.exe

it now has a proper progress dialogue for temp file copying.

thanks!

this has been improved, lets check it out:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/release15/powarc150106.exe

check with latest version please:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/release15/powarc150105.exe

thanks!

pretty happy with Win 10 tablet right now… at those prices, they should be able to sell loads of them.

AHA.

I went fishing in my config settings.

I discovered the cause of my problem reported a month ago (that you could not duplicate). Perhaps it is source of this problem as well.

Burning support was set to “autodetect.”

I changed it to SPTD, and the .iso window open exactly as it was supposed to – no 38 sec delay!

Maybe it is also causing this problem?

I have no idea how the setting got switched . . . it has always been SPTD. Maybe it was with one of the updates?

Actually, glad to know that I was not nuts claiming there was a 38 second delay in having the iso windows open!

The virtual drive did not uninstall from shell. Win 8.1 (64). Latest PA.

It uninstalled just fine from within PA Burner.

Interesting. After I unloaded a slew of other programs, it DID unmount from the shell. So there was something else blocking it from working.

Not sure what.

Confirmed in PA15.01.03

Three old plug-ins that had disappeared in the previous version reappeared in this one.

yes, we will try to make it work, but it has to be major release, not these small maintenance update…

I added files to archive and set options to create a zip and “move” the files (delete files after added to archive). When I open the zip that was created only one of my files are there and the rest are not. I checked the original file location and they are not located there either. PA deleted my files without adding them to the archive. Also checked recycle bin and they are not there either. No record of archive in “history”. Is there any way for me to recover or restore the files that PA deleted? Or any other folders I should look to find them?

Hello,

15.00.41 is the latest version of PowerArchiver 2015, which has addressed this issue.
You can upgrade to it via Patchbeam in PowerArchiver or use this direct download link;
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2015/powarc150041int.exe

Should work fine there, let us know if you come across any issues.

we will update the wiki soon as well, so it is all explained well… thanks for the suggestion.

We were able to reproduce the issue and are logging it in for fixing.
thanks very much for the details, we appreciate it!

Thanks for the clarification.

“ZIP Default” = ZIP Last Used Configuration (not the “ShellExt: ZIP Default” profile)

I am having the problem I have been having erratically.

I send files via ZTE; the recipient gets the email with a link. They click on the link; no file.

I check on my cloud; no file.

[Is there a way to create a shortcut that goes straight to A-C . . . so I can make sure the file is uploaded? I does go through the dialogue window that indicates that it is uploading the file. It is just that sometimes it doesn’t . . . and I do not get an error message.]

AND ISO GRABBING PROBLEM.
BTW. .41 does not fix the Copy Disk to .iso file command on the 8.1 - 64 bit machine. At roughly 8 seconds, the window blinks; at 43 seconds or so, the window finally comes up. I have a video . . . but it is too large to upload.

It is, working fine business.

Cheers

DrT

@spwolf:

thank you, this should be fixed in upcoming update… are you an alpha tester?

No, I’m afraid I’m not.

Glad to hear that a fix is on the way.

I waited 5 minutes and PABurnTool still said it’s adding files.

For the same amount of time, InfraRecorder had completed the process.

This was what Firefox saw when accessing the Register section of PA Forums:

Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3FEgfoEp1bSZm4wMHFfbDNrUWs/view?usp=sharing

thanks, it should be fixed in upcoming update

Hello, there is no beta anymore. PA 2015 has been officially introduced few weeks back.

Sorry for not noticing your post before. You can save your settings via Options> Save/Export and then you will always have them.

thanks!

I’m assuming POWERARC.EXE will only ever be loaded/running if either the GUI is open or it’s actively doing an archive operation. Are there any other cases where the EXE would be loaded?

In the first case, probably not many people would care if the EXE got killed to update the app…

In the second case (the OP’s case) could you not have some sort of callback to some module in the PA stack that the installer could use to see if there are active operations running - and if so, abort the update?

You are Right, AFAIK PA is the only programme, which supports at least decompression of ZIPXed JPEGs. E.g. WinRAR and 7-Zip don’t support this part of the format.
I hope your solution will offer a better documentation, so it can be used (at least for decompression) in other programmes and on other platforms (Mac, Linux, …).

I’m not sure what kind of component issue you’re talking about, whether or not a library is a real folder I’d have thought you would still have full control over what you display in your own UI. Maybe you’re just hosting Explorer inside of that window or something…

On the other hand - I really only use PA from the context menu extensions anyway so it doesn’t really bother me specifically… just figured I’d report something that was clearly not correct.

The thing is, I have a program that is not affected by that setting and always seems to show its jump list…that is why I asked. Also, pinned folders pinned to a windows explorer taskbar icon are not affected either.

The program that never loses its jumplist is ‘WinSnap’ (brilliant screenshot program).

Regards

DrT

Thank you, spwolf!

The username case-sensitivity was the issue after all. Should have thought of this myself, doh.

Happy PA customer, though.
Terry

Please try with this release and let us know if it has been fixed:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2015/powarc150036int.exe

thanks!

Tested with the newest RC 2015 and putting on the list for the dev team to check out for the next update.
Thanks for bringing it up :)

this has been fixed in .35, thanks for the report!

Hi franky13,
thanks for sending over the settings. tried with them and still worked fine.
As I replied in the support ticket, if possible, send over the files you are using and we will try with those exact files to attempt to reproduce.

thanks!

I’ve tried some more tests, and it does appear (as you say) to apply to .zipx files. If I create a .zip file, and upload to Google Drive from “within” the archive, it uploads perfectly.

I’ll try the same thing with some more different archive types, and see what happens, but so far, this seems to be a .zipx only problem.

@spwolf:

drteeth has had problem with VD for a while, i dont think it is related to any of new stuff we did…

But it did work just the one time though :D.

Ah, I didn’t think to go there, since I knew my password :-)

Anyway, that worked!

Thanks!

Hi Socrates,
no addins at all are with fresh installed firefox portable (version 33).
If i’m the only one with the problem then forget about it.
But if others have the problem too and it is reproducible then maybe a fix is needed…

Makes senses . . . and good news. Looking forward to seeing it.

P.S. I want update the info.

The PowerArchiver v14.06.04 does not open only the boot.wim file.
install.wim file opens, but veeeeeery slowly.
The PowerArchiver v15.00.22 opens boot.wim file normally.

Any version of 7-Zip always opened all wim-files very fast, but PowerArchiver still can not do this more faster.
I thought fast wim-file opening will be the gift to the users.

Nizaury - thanks … since you report so many usefull things, you have earned free license for PA Toolbox with lifetime updates… email to support at conexware.com with your info so we can send you the code… thank you!

Problem solved in PowerArchiver v 14.06.03. Thank you.

@robert2098:

No need to reboot :), you can kill the PowerArchiver process with the Task Manager too.
Thanks for confirming :cool:

It messed up my “dwm.exe” process after trying to kill PA’s process.
DWM is like Windows Explorer, that gets messed up and it’s reboot time!

Dieses Problem wurde in dem heutigen Update behoben.
Vielen Dank für Ihren Beitrag :)

@spwolf:

i actually had problems downloading zips yesterday too, so i will check it out on mine :-).

Right now, Test does the headers check… it would be cool if we added check which actually extracts and checks files, although some would consider it pointless as it takes same time as extraction? However, it should be able to clean after itself nicely.

Other archiver programs I’ve used check all the CRCs etc. when you do test and that’s what I was expecting.

If it doesn’t actually test everything what is the point?
You’re not actually verifying that the file isn’t corrupt are you.

I do not see the same behavior.

Admittedly, I have the default ZIP PROFILE set to zipx. However, if I change to deflate, the ‘x’ disappears from the file name; if I change back to optimize, the file name extension returns to zipx.

Perhaps, though, I am misunderstanding the problem.

Or there is another setting somewhere that affects this behavior.

It would be good if the Patchbeam application had a option to collect a debug text file detailing what went on in the background… ie like you see during FTP… making connection, logging in username , logging password, syncing , approved etc

so for this attempting connection, logging in , Error leaving proxy.

The autoupdater dialog is not that different from other applications Avast, norton etc have it built in and if theirs crashes it can cause the application to require a restart. However, they have autodetect features that try’s to establish a connection using its own code logic.

I wrote something similar
1. Code uses the settings provided by IE Proxy settings
2. If user enters in details it uses this instead
3. if neither of the above worked it then attempts some alternatives
4. if 1,2,3 fails it prompts the user requesting advanced details.

but take into consideration the auto update hasn’t really changed since it was 1st introduced and for the majority of users it works.

it is possible that one of the alpha/beta versions of last year added saving of folder letter case… this is possible in ZIP format - you can have 10 folders with the same name for instance… it is just confusing and usually we dont do it that way.

@mathewferrel:

can you tell me what is PA, i would like to use it to edit the .tls file .

PA is PowerArchiver, and these are PowerArchiver forums :-).

Click on download top right to download and install.

thanks.

@spwolf:

expand the window slightly and it wont overlap… it will save the size of the window.

I know that’s what I ended up doing, cheers.

Just don’t like the idea of seeing that window like that on every new install.

When you create a backup of PowerArchiver’s config I doubt it would remember the window sizing of such dialog? Might be worth adding to the list of not already on there.

Yes, I guess so. I have edited my post, it should read … source file… (not source folder which was in my initial post) and added 1 pw for all files.

Let’s say it is a bit like when I am searching for all *.txt files in all subfolders, it will find various files in various folders.
Now select the files and rightclick compress to individual, pw-protected .exe files.
(I seldomly use the GUI, only use context menu, is much faster)

Did not check if any other archiver/zipper can do this though.

Later 1. Add examples of batch zip
======[1]=====Adding multiple files to be zipped - note new pw thing==

======[2]=====before and after===

Maybe it could be considered to add a batch zip to exe profile?
(Options->Compression Profiles) and have that added to context menu?

Just a suggestion …

later: maybe this one should be moved to the wishlist part… :)

=

thank you, updated install is on download page and will be up on patchbeam within an hour or so….

Nice to hear from you Micke!!
Thanks for checking it out :)

Personally I prefer use the dd command in Linux for cloning harddrives.

confirmed !

Apparent solution: the Windows filename did not match the PDF title of the file listed under properties. When I matched the two names, the PDF version WOULD upload.

Now that we know the source of the problem, perhaps there is a way to fix it?

I have now seen this happen to another program when I updated it. So you are correct - it isn’t a PowerArchiver problem.

hello,

simply click the “Encryption” dropdown menu when creating an archive and select the encryption you would like, then proceed to complete creating the archive and it will be encrypted/password protected.

if you have an archive that is not encrypted/password protected, you can open it in Po werarchiver and click the Encrypt button in toolbar and you will be able to encrypt the file then.

Hope that helps, let us know if we can help further.

Thanks,

Not sure if this is a problem or just a request for an improved PA feature. Is there a way to speed uploads to defined clouds (e.g., Dropbox)? Uploading a file to DB via PA Cloud takes 3-4 times longer than if I drag the file to the DB folder on my computer and then let DB upload it. Is there a way to make the times more comparable?

usually for PA, fastest is forums then news page then FB page :-)

Fixed !

Many Thanks :)

@ckit:

Wow, if only Microsoft had you guys working for them maybe Windows 8 would have been better than the current train (metro) wreck….

well, they did come far away from 8.00. And this fall update should probably end up being called 9.0 :-).

I mean I bet I downloaded at least 15 GB of of Windows updates since the first official release. Maybe more.

@Mili:

please Try with latest release:

http://dl.patchbeam.com/conexware/files/powerarchiver/powarc140504int.exe

Thanks.

That seems to work perfectly.
No weird temp file names.

This should be fixed in latest release:
http://powerarchiver.com/test/release13/powarc140503int.exe

Please let us know and thanks!

confirmed.
Mine was install.wim size 3.25 GB

it is always good to bring these things to our attention :-)

The problem with winrar5 archive with encrypted filenames extraction is solved.

The problem with new *.wim files opening is solved. May be it could be a little bit faster, but it’s working fine.

I hope the problems with russian text will be solved later.

Thank you for the quality work.

here is test release that should have a fix for this:
http://powerarchiver.com/test/release13/powarc140502int.exe

we will be starting new interface testing this week… if anyone wants into alpha testing, let us know…

That’s fixed it, thanks spwolf. :D
Normal service shall now resume… ;)

this is same bug as:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6136

solved via web chat for this thread….

C:\Program Files (x86)\PowerArchiver
……for me also

Windows 8.1 Pro x64

Thanks for updated bud. This strange issue huh?

merci ! :)

In my case, I may need compression more than brute speed since I move my files between work and home via a remote server. So a smaller file uploads faster.

Always an error message? Using all formats, or just zip?

Best,

Hugh

Can you email us at support at conexware dot com so we can get some better info… it might be different type of openpgp key than ones that we test with, there are quite few different possibilities. Thanks!

i believe this is already written in, but Mili will check once he gets back from his (short) vacation… thank you.

logged in, thanks for letting us know :)

Dear Support,

Please contact BitDefender to have your program whitelisted. I had to add it to exclusions before it would extract files properly and not hang.

Tested here w your reg settings, worked just fine.
Let us know how it went with the Kaspersky test.

got the Dell Venue 8 PRO and have been using it/playing with it for a few days now, I feel sorry for laptops from now on :)

@spwolf:

Go to Options> View> Explorer Display Style and disable Only inside archive in that menu as well.

There is also button on the left side of status bar where you can change the same options.

thanks!

Thanks for help, my problem was the “use explorer only inside archive” marked I just unchecked and works fine now.

It is probably solid archive so unpacked size is not available… thanks for the report!

In the middle of this, I ended up rebuilding my entire computer w/new
hardware and software.

I just reinstalled the application, ran the backup, and it seems to have
worked. I have a 385 gig full backup sitting on my usb 3 drive.

Thanks for the help, I would say the issue is fixed.

Got the example archive in your support message and have reproduced.
It’s logged in, lets see what’s up.

Thanks :)

not perfect, but pretty good :-)

can you give us some example of the rar archive so we can check it out?

@Luxor:

All that matters is I’m happy that it’s now functioning properly and I hope that it stays that way and doesn’t revert back to the compact menu as happened in previous versions after a couple of days use.

What a great way to start 2014! :D

Hi!

The issue has been fixed in todays update.
Give it a check :)

Thanks for letting us know!