Hi everyone, some good news about PowerArchiver… I’ve managed to get in touch with the original developer of PowerArchiver, Ivan Petrovic, and he has confirmed that the product is not dead or abandoned, in fact it is still very much alive! There has been a hiatus over the past months for various reasons, but that we should expect to see stuff coming through in the coming months (hopefully the next 2 months).
The Windows 11 context menu for PowerArchiver on normal files (to be compressed, etc.) is now showing multiple tiers with two identical menus. See attached captures of the issue:
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Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
OS build 26100.2605
Hello!
I’ve just created SFX-Archives both from ZIP and 7z-Archives and none has an Icon as it seems.
I use the new version 22.00.11.
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Basically I used powerarchiver context menus to zip up a folder then i used windows 11 own built in zip extractor via the context menu to extract all and this is where it throw up a fault. , I’m using windows 11 .
The file that was a problem in the zip that windows 11 could not extract was iva “babe” cotton.jpg
I know it has non standard quotes in it.
However I had winrar on the computer and tried the exact same method with their context menu compress to zip and then I extracted the file with windows own extract all context menu and it had no problems. This indicates that powerarchiver is doing something different with iva “babe” cotton.jpg compressing to zip.
Then I changed iva “babe” cotton.jpg to iva babe cotton.jpg and compressed it with powerarchiver and then tried it with windows 11 extract all and had no problems. It looks like powerarchiver is doing something to that one file that has quotes in it.
Please note that powerarchiver extracted both zip files with no problems, only windows built in zip extraction had the fault. Reason I’m letting people know in case they send zip files with special characters in files names to people who do not have powerarchiver.
When will a fix be implemented?
On installing the program I am getting the error message:
"Unable to execute file c:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\pashutil.exe
CreateProcess failed: code 2
The system cannot find the file specified"
This can’t be right!
I am using the latest official build of Windows 11
Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen.
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Buttons not aligned on configuration window.
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New version:
PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10:
Download:
https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220010.exe
New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.
Thanks everyone for your assistance!
New version:
PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11:
Download:
https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220011.exe
New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.
Thanks everyone for your assistance!
Just tried using the Modern (Windows 10) Icon set and seeing a few missing icons in both PowerArchiver Burner and PowerArchiver Encryption screens . They are all there in the Minimalistik icon set and the only difference I can see is the former is blue and the latter grey. In version 22.00.9
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I had a large .tar file (a backed up WSL) and I want to delete a few directories and their contents from it using PA2023.
PA just destroys the whole archive as soon as I try to delete a directory, leaving it in a state where PA2023 won’t even open it any more.
I tried several times and also tried compressing it to .tar.xz instead - same result.
This should either actually work, or it should say operation not supported and do nothing.
Hello!
The regular version of PA 2023 is out for over 6 months now, but there is still no sign of the portable release.
(When) will there be one?
Thanks!
Hello!
Is there currently no portable version of PA2023 available?
(When) do you plan to release one?
Thanks!
Win 11 64 bit
I have some archives which have been encrypted, using the encrypt option either in pbs or when interactively creating a zip. When I open these, and look at files, I am asked for passwords, which I know, and then can view items or decrypt the files in the archive (tools>decrypt files).
However, when I use the Actions>Remove Archive Encryption (whether using the same zip or asking to write another), the routine shows progress bar to the end, but then just hangs i.e. “OK” never activates. All process information shows this stalled/hanging.
What can I do to sort this out?
For example:
Download this ZIP file: http://dslstats.me.uk/files/dslstats32W-6.5.zip
Everything in the ZIP file is in a directory “dslstats32W-6.5”.
However when I extract using right click “Extract Here” the name of the directory created is “2W-6.5” !
I am running PA 22.00.09 on Windows 11. I have seen the same happen with some other kinds of archive too.
Empty ConeXware folder
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Whenever I open an archive file, Power Archiver creates an empy folder called ConeXware and several other subfolders of that one in the directory where I am opening the archived file. Is there a way to make it stop doing that? It seems to be related the skins as the subfolder names are as follows:
ConeXware
└ Plugins
└ Secure
└ Skins
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what version of PA is doing this? Thanks!
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version 12.11.02
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Hi Ghendric!
I’ve been trying to reproduce this somehow but no luck…
Could you please provide some details as to how to reproduce it?
What kind of a file are you opening? How are you opening it? Exactly when do these folders appear? Etc.
Anything that will help reproduce it and we will log it in for fixing.
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i vaguely remember someone reporting something similar, years ago, and it was something to do with registry permissions.
Do you have some kind of closed system that you run PA, or is it just run of the mill Windows installation.
And what version of Windows do you use? Thanks!
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Its running on Windows 7 64 bit. The registry permissions thing makes sense. The pc is on a network and there are policies in place. It could be that it doesn’t have the permission or the permissions are kind of screwed up. I have been having issues with that lately on the PC… That’s what happens when somebody tries to “fix stuff”…
I am an admin on the pc so I should be able to set the registry permissions. What should I check?
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check HKCU\Software\PowerArchiver at least, click on properties and make sure you have full permissions there.
We will start there, and if that doesnt work, I have to talk to dev team to see what could it be. It is nothing obvious, and even for engineers it is not something obvious :-)
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I checked that registry key and I have full access. That wasn’t it…
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Ok, so we have had another member sends us more info:
The regkey : HKLM\software\microsoft\windowsq\current version\explorer\shell folders\common appdata
is empty (due to policies I presume).check it out… it is: C:\ProgramData for me.
thanks! and thanks to the member sending us info!!!
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Ok, so we have had another member sends us more info:
check it out… it is: C:\ProgramData for me.
thanks! and thanks to the member sending us info!!!
Mine is set to C:\ProgramData. I’m still getting an empty folder whenever I open an archive file.
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Did you check permissions for that registry key, are they readable?
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Did you check permissions for that registry key, are they readable?
Yes and I have full permissions on them… I am running Windows 7 64 bit Enterprise edition if that helps…
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Did you check permissions for that registry key, are they readable?
Ok, I noticed something… if I select a bunch of files in windows explorer, right click and create a new archive file, the folder doesn’t get created in that folder. However; if I open an archive file, the folder gets created in the directory of the archive file that I’m opening… So it’s happening on Open and not Create…
