BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02

[DKJones]

I beg to differ.

I do not like the way that Corel has used WinZip as a money maker for their inability to reinvigorate Word Perfect. So I desperately sought an alternative. Some were complete disasters. However, at first glance, PA had it all.

I was so anxious to help our company’s efforts, I bought a second license I didn’t need.

But try as I did, PA has never worked as well or as reliably for me as WinZip.

I spend countless hours on the forums and writing tech support. Often my questions were met with incredulity. If the problem was acknowledged, the culprit was always some setting in some other program. Perhaps that is true – although I doubt it. I have had similar problems on three rather different computers.

PA balked and belched in ways WZ has NEVER done in more than a decade. [Although your email companion works flawlessly and theirs never has. It is just that is a feature I don’t use all that often.]

So I was (and am) mystified by the raves. Does this baby have huge potential? Absolutely. But I want workability and reliability, not raw potential.

So finally after 9 months of efforts, I finally (and reluctantly) went back to WZ.

I will keep PA and may, in 6-8 months give it a whirl again.

Normally I wouldn’t even bother with such a post. But I happened to check your site and saw this thread; I decided to contribute my 2 cents worth.

[spwolf]

@DKJones:

I beg to differ.

I do not like the way that Corel has used WinZip as a money maker for their inability to reinvigorate Word Perfect. So I desperately sought an alternative. Some were complete disasters. However, at first glance, PA had it all.

I was so anxious to help our company’s efforts, I bought a second license I didn’t need.

But try as I did, PA has never worked as well or as reliably for me as WinZip.

I spend countless hours on the forums and writing tech support. Often my questions were met with incredulity. If the problem was acknowledged, the culprit was always some setting in some other program. Perhaps that is true – although I doubt it. I have had similar problems on three rather different computers.

PA balked and belched in ways WZ has NEVER done in more than a decade. [Although your email companion works flawlessly and theirs never has. It is just that is a feature I don’t use all that often.]

So I was (and am) mystified by the raves. Does this baby have huge potential? Absolutely. But I want workability and reliability, not raw potential.

So finally after 9 months of efforts, I finally (and reluctantly) went back to WZ.

I will keep PA and may, in 6-8 months give it a whirl again.

Normally I wouldn’t even bother with such a post. But I happened to check your site and saw this thread; I decided to contribute my 2 cents worth.

We still cant figure out what you meant with your post about 3 issues… Issue with date is understood, other too we can figure out and you have not followed through with explanation.

Unfortunatly there is no magic wand to fix any issue.

When we get report, and we can reproduce it, we properly enter it into our bug tracking database and then when we are working on new release we go through complete list.

If we can not reproduce it (for instance - i can open multiple files inside archive with PA, and so can Terry from that post of yours), and we dont get enough info, then it will certainly not auto-magically fix itself. I wish it would, it would make my life easier.

So sometimes it requires quite a bit of patience from end user as well, because otherwise we can not reproduce the issue. We understand it is sometimes not easy, simple and fast, so we are very grateful when someone takes their time to do report issue and follow up with it.

thank you ;-).

[DKJones]

I have two new computers, so I thought I’d give PA a whirl again.

I immediately see one of the same weakness I saw before.

I cannot OPEN multiples files in an archive. I can extract multiple files. But I cannot open them – which is what I want to do.

I have archives with multiple files. About once a month I need to add additional information to 5-6 of files within the archive.

With WZ I can open them all at once, make changes to each, and then get a messages asking me if I want to update the archive with the altered files.

With PA, I have to open them one at a time. This is not a huge time sink, but it’s neither as elegant for as quick as WZ.

And I could extract them. But that takes even more time. And since these files are sensitive, then I need to wipe them after updating them.

Now perhaps there is some setting someone that I am missing. But I have tried all the standard tricks for opening multiple files.

None work.

Not inclined to see if any of the other oddities in PA have been fixed.

So perhaps in another 3-4 months???

Sigh.

[PBMCMLXXI]

@DKJones:

Not inclined to see if any of the other oddities in PA have been fixed.

So perhaps in another 3-4 months???

Sigh.

Always nice when things do get fixed.
Shame there are these oddities in the product.
Be nice if there was continuity on the site as well.

(Main page has: Latest News PowerArchiver 2010 11.63 is here, download multicore optimized PowerArchiver now!)(Forum page has: Latest News PowerArchiver 2010 version 11.61 is now available to download)
(Blog has: Latest News PowerArchiver 2010 version 11.62 is now available to download)

I reverted back to Winzip some months ago, was waiting for the beta but nothing turned up. The integration in W7 in my opinion is a lot better.

[spwolf]

@DKJones:

I have two new computers, so I thought I’d give PA a whirl again.

I immediately see one of the same weakness I saw before.

I cannot OPEN multiples files in an archive. I can extract multiple files. But I cannot open them – which is what I want to do.

I have archives with multiple files. About once a month I need to add additional information to 5-6 of files within the archive.

With WZ I can open them all at once, make changes to each, and then get a messages asking me if I want to update the archive with the altered files.

With PA, I have to open them one at a time. This is not a huge time sink, but it’s neither as elegant for as quick as WZ.

And I could extract them. But that takes even more time. And since these files are sensitive, then I need to wipe them after updating them.

Now perhaps there is some setting someone that I am missing. But I have tried all the standard tricks for opening multiple files.

None work.

Not inclined to see if any of the other oddities in PA have been fixed.

So perhaps in another 3-4 months???

Sigh.

well since you didnt provide any additional info, i doubt it will auto fix itself, just as i tried to explain it last time around.

[spwolf]

@pjb:

Always nice when things do get fixed.
Shame there are these oddities in the product.
Be nice if there was continuity on the site as well.

(Main page has: Latest News PowerArchiver 2010 11.63 is here, download multicore optimized PowerArchiver now!)(Forum page has: Latest News PowerArchiver 2010 version 11.61 is now available to download)
(Blog has: Latest News PowerArchiver 2010 version 11.62 is now available to download)

I reverted back to Winzip some months ago, was waiting for the beta but nothing turned up. The integration in W7 in my opinion is a lot better.

those news sections are not live so they are not updated, it is kind of interesting that someone would point that as inferiority of product ;)

what were you hoping to get from beta? i didnt see any wishes posted?

[DKJones]

I am befuddled.

I explained precisely what the problem was: I cannot open multiple files within an archive at once. You claimed in any earlier that you could do it. Tell me how. No need to get snarky.

As for the other fellow’s comments, his point, I assume, is that if you are sloppy with your web site, then you are probably sloppy with your software.

I may give PA a run again some months down the road. At the moment, I think not. Having two lifetime licenses of PA it is bordering on the insane to pay WZ’s inflated price every year or so. However, I would rather have a reliable product . . . and I would rather have service from folks who are not quite so defensive.

[spwolf]

@DKJones:

I am befuddled.

I explained precisely what the problem was: I cannot open multiple files within an archive at once. You claimed in any earlier that you could do it. Tell me how. No need to get snarky.

As for the other fellow’s comments, his point, I assume, is that if you are sloppy with your web site, then you are probably sloppy with your software.

I may give PA a run again some months down the road. At the moment, I think not. Having two lifetime licenses of PA it is bordering on the insane to pay WZ’s inflated price every year or so. However, I would rather have a reliable product . . . and I would rather have service from folks who are not quite so defensive.

you need to send us example archive and tell us what kind of editor you are opening your files with so we can try to do exactly what you are doing. Everything we tried worked. Other users tried it on forums and it worked for them as well. We have requested this last time as well.

How can we know what is your specific situation here?

We do our best here to communicate with our users, i think you are being unfair to us but hey you are customer so it is your right to do so. But if you have an problem, please try explaining it to us better. Currently all we have is “it doesnt work, I will check it next few months to see if it is fixed”.

p.s. as to the website, i think us not updating newsbit on static pages is silly complaint and completely irrelevant considering we are only compression utility that has forums, let alone blogs, twitter and facebook pages. Where else can you post your wishes publicly? where else can you talk to the developers?

[spwolf]

also can you please open up new thread in bug reports section? I dont want to move these threads to it so people can follow this conversation as well.

[spwolf]

we can continue specific bug situation here:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4734

[Innuendo]

Side note…I’ve gotten, like 40 email notifications of DKJones posting to this thread.

Attempts to unsubscribe from notifications of updates to this thread have been futile. :confused:

[spwolf]

@Innuendo:

Side note…I’ve gotten, like 40 email notifications of DKJones posting to this thread.

Attempts to unsubscribe from notifications of updates to this thread have been futile. :confused:

strange, did you try under thread tools on the top of the thread?