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.
PA RC1 Patchbeam
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Patchbeam crashes when run under WinXP
“Access Violation at address 0046B870 in module PATCHBEAM.EXE. Read of address 0000001C”.
Also, there is an empty square after each column name.
I cannot change skins or toolbars. I don’t mean to be funny, but is Win XP supported? I have, like many, ‘fixed’ my XP to continue to get the fixes. It is just an install I use for fun.
Regards
DrT
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should be, I will check it out and let you know whats happening.
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I have some further info that should help. If I install RC1 on top of the last v13 (which is uninstalled automatically as far as I can see) I cannot change the toolbars or icons - this time this was on win 7 x64. The icons always remain the modern blue-line only look. If I select classic toobar, the toolbar vanishes. None of these issues happened when I installed the 16.00.40 version on top of v13 and then upgraded to v16 RC1. Naturally, happy to supply any info you want so ask away.
DrT
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I have some further info that should help. If I install RC1 on top of the last v13 (which is uninstalled automatically as far as I can see) I cannot change the toolbars or icons - this time this was on win 7 x64. The icons always remain the modern blue-line only look. If I select classic toobar, the toolbar vanishes. None of these issues happened when I installed the 16.00.40 version on top of v13 and then upgraded to v16 RC1. Naturally, happy to supply any info you want so ask away.
DrT
that makes sense, probably update over v13… since it uninstalls it but it keeps the setting.
We will check it out. Sucks that my test lab’s 8 core keeps going dead in the past 2 weeks, just when it is needed the most. Oh well, core-m is doing great replacing it, who would have thought.
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Please check out the different results depending on which v of 2016 was used to upgrade.
These days, I tend to rely on installers to tell me if settings or an uninstall is needed.
I have no problem in removing the ‘old’ settings to see if that fixes the issue. Juts let me know what you want as always.
DrT
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can you tell me what settings you had in 2013? Default 2013 to 2016 works fine. Did you have classic or modern toolbar?
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I honestly cannot tell you other than to say that all instances of PA were identically configured. The only common denominator that I can tell is the version of PA 2016 used to upgrade.
Would it be helpful if I were to send you the current settings of the setups of PA that are okay and “broken”?
DrT
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I honestly cannot tell you other than to say that all instances of PA were identically configured. The only common denominator that I can tell is the version of PA 2016 used to upgrade.
Would it be helpful if I were to send you the current settings of the setups of PA that are okay and “broken”?
DrT
broken one would help, cab and email please, thanks!
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Done. Sent to ‘support@’.
DrT
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Done. Sent to ‘support@’.
DrT
Cool, I will check it out now, thanks for sending it.
Just to confirm - upgrade process in Windows Installer will not delete your previous settings, it is not supposed to.
Sometimes when we change important parts of PA, there could be old setting that clashes with new PA. We test this usually so for instance default values will always work fine but it is up to us to make sure it works properly, there is not automated way.
In this case with PA 2016, toolbar component is completely new, so it has everything different compared to old one and we manually adjusted settings to match.
