Thank you for the insight on this!

hi @2Flo , any option but drag and drop? try extact button dropdown and then MRU (it will save your MRU).

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!

Actually, I don’t think, I*ve tried this with version .50, so I can’t tell if it’s new or not.

The buttons in “Start” and “Werkzeuge” are fixed, but the button “Oberfläche” in the “Ansicht” toolbar is still too small in version 19.00.51 And there are also some additional glitches in the dark version which don’t appear in the bright ones:

@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.

No problem, send me the updated resource file and I’ll translate the rest

@GiovanninettiR said in Strange file size seen in 2019 portable: It shows the correct sizes (the same that You can see in the attached picture). Thank You and regards Rodolfo Giovanninetti check extracted file and see if the size is the same or if you get an error… thanks!

@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.

@Mili ok got the my other email address that have toolbox version with pa support but i think that is not lifetime upgradable license because i have not found any 2019 version resend button.

thanks @guido logged in

thanks!!

The buttons are to close to the textbox. They should be in the center.

thanks @guido !!

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.

My OS: Windows XP Home Edition, SP3 The version number and date of the program: PowerArchiver Command Line v9.00b [Feb 23 2019] The program not extracts one self-extracting file. How to reproduce the problem Download the SFX file by link: install.exe Copy the “install.exe” file into the same location as the program is located. Go to the DOS prompt. Make your PACL location the default drive. If it is on the E drive enter the command E: and press enter. Replace “E:” with the appropriate drive letter. Enter command cd e:<path name> to go to the location where the program resides. Enter command: paext32 -o+ -p"install" "install.exe" As a result, the “install” directory will not be created and no files will be extracted. The “install.exe” file may be damaged but if you use a program such as 7-Zip or PeaZip to extract the files, the extraction process is successful. I want the PACL to also unpack such a file. This problem is very critical for me. I often come across this. I do not want to resort to using other compression program. … Michael

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.

If the OP finds it annoying that is his business IMHO. Added to that, the mechanism for hiding it does not seem to work…a double whammie!

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!

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.

@ckit fixed yesterday, thank you!

haha, nice to hear! thanks for the assist

Well, I don’t know. It still looks wrong to me in the new version. This is the skin “SolitudeDB”.

Should work better now in version .41, please let us know and thanks for the report https://powerarchiver.cachefly.net/2019/powarc190041.exe

@BigMike said in Smart AI: Preferences not intuitive: I’ll continue to give my input, while it’s work in progress. Complaining after release is somehow not the right way… please do… appreciated!

@spwolf said in "The specified account already exists" error: @KoloheWiz: The latest release - PA 2016 - will not complete installation. No matter what it ends with the “The specified account already exists” error. I start the update process using the Check For Update button under Configuration>Auto Update. The new version downloads and begins to install but stops abruptly with the “The specified account already exists” error. I have a screenshot and the log file but no way to post them here. I have no URL to post the image to because I do not own any domains. IMHO, that should NOT be the only way to add an image or log file to a forum post as there are more people without a domain than ones that do. For that matter, “Insert Image” doesn’t mean the same as “Insert Image Link” which is what the button should read for accuracy purposes. This usually means something is wrong with your Windows Installer, usually setup repository got wiped out. Try cleaning PowerArchiver entry from Windows Installer database by using MSI Clean Up tool: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_installer_cleanup_utility.html That should delete PowerArchiver previous version from registry and then you should be able to install new one. As to the images - in the future, you can use imgur.com to post links to image files, They are very reliable and great image host. thanks! Awesome spwolf, was having the same https://www.stlcurioshoppe.com/v-tight-gel-review/ problem but after using windows installer cleanup and deleting Power Archiver I’ve been able to reinstall and it works great.

Hello! I think it would be a great option to make the portable version of PowerArchiver compatible with PortableApps (i.e. adding the necessary files and folders to integrate it smoothly into their structure). I own various other commercial programmes which -when installed in portable mode- offer to make the becessary changes without needing an extra installer or the official PortableApps repos. Thanks for opinions or perhaps even a realization of this. A.Borque

I just saw, that there would be a matching string already: pas.resourcestring.Info: Password matches the Password Policies So using this resource string would result in an already translated replacement.

tx @guido logged in

Hi @ValhallaWarrior Which version of PowerArchiver are you using? Also, does it happen with all mounted ISO files or a certain one? Tested the latest 2019 version and unmounting worked, so it could be something specific. Let us know.

afraid don’t have the link as the ad keeps changing

@qrti said in Gigantic Titel bar: Version 19.00.33 If I set ‘quartz violet’ skin, PA title bars get real big, requesters also inherit these title bars. They were of normal size in the previous version. ‘Classic’ skin title bars are of common system size. we noticed it too, we working on large dpi changes. Thanks for the report.

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Hi @Brian-Gregory Could you be more specific? Which one’s are you referring to? We post a changelog with every update and lots of stuff is updated/added/fixed. There will issues we haven’t gotten to yet as the job is large and there are priorities. That doesn’t mean everything shouldn’t be addressed, of course, and you are correct in your statement. The community is a very big help, in pointing out bugs and feature improvements. Which ones are you referring to? I can look up the bug reports and increase the priority as needed. Thanks!

Method: Optimize Strong Compression: Extreme Threads: 2 (Automatic = UNCHECKED) Add to queue: UNCHECKED Low priority: UNCHECKED I shouldn’t have to lower compression settings. PowerArchiver should adjust to the memory I have available.

@spwolf Ok, can we have a pinned topic so others know as well?

basically we had to clear some bad cache and rename the file… nothing to smart or exciting.

You cannot drag and drop folders into Archive Converter window when you start PowerArchiver with Admin rights. If you start PowerArchiver without Admin rights, you can drop and drop folders into the Archive Converter window correctly.

thanks for the suggestion, we’ve logged in an improvement to show a notice

Sounds like a nice addition, logged in

awesome! thanks for helping us find the incorrect nag screen for non adv codec pack licenses, logged in for fixing.

glad it worked out @aruzinsky please write whenever we can be of assistance.

thank you@Mili

thanks @wilsonp We were able to reproduce it and it’s logged in for fixing. thanks for the help.

Thank you very much. The Setting was 3pt, which is very small. After Setting it to 9pt everything looks fine.

@Minotaur said in Preview of archive contents in Win10 explorer: Hi there. Back in PA2016, I used to be able to select a zip/rar/etc. file in Windows Explorer and I’d see the archive contents in the Windows 10 preview pane. However no version since this has had this feature. Is this a big, or something that was intentionally removed, or am I missing a setting to enable it somewhere? Thanks. It has returned with PA 2019 Preview… do you have access to it?

Yes, it was version 19.00.26

@nsd3 said in UAC elevation required whenever I start PowerArchiver 2019 toolbox: I’ve just upgraded to the Toolbox version of PowerArchiver, and following the email invitation, downloaded and installed PowerArchiver 2019.00.26. UAC elevation kicks in whenever I start the application. Anyway to prevent this happening, it’s really annoying. Uncheck all users option from the warning window and click ok… does it happen again? Do you have any other software for compression installed? Let us try to fix the root of the problem in next build. thanks!

@The_PurSpyk said in Context Menu Icons (right click in File Explorer), general comments: Hi I know this was an issue in the beta version of 2018, and it seems to be the same in 2019, the right click menu icons in File Explorer are red, the uninstall icon ion Control Panel is also red? When using the new Windows 10 theme, there is a lot of inconsistency between the different modes, in the burners, you have large colourful icons on top of the scree, in ftp mode you have very small icons, seems a bit of a mess at the moment. If you select Modern Toolbar, and have the dark theme on in Windows 10, the toolbar has a black background while the rest of the application is white, the 2018 version never had this issue. red is on purpose for beta versions being improved, but we also did some of it on purpose… in any case, we finished all the changes for next build, it looks tight IMHO. we can implement new windows dark skin for ribbon ui only for the ribbon part, not for the rest of the app as we cant skin only small part of the application while top ribbon is official windows ribbon ui and cant be skinned. You can change this option manually in under Skins> Modern Toolbar> Auto, Dark, Light. thanks!

thanks @The_PurSpyk Noticed the icon of the hidden folder/file is showing lighter but it’s still showing. Logging this in. thanks for letting us know.

@south37 said in PA2019 1. Drag and Drop. 2. Toolbar icons: @spwolf version .26 has fixed the toolbar issue and the drag-and-drop issue as well. Thanks very much. thanks for letting us know, and if you find anything else please post it again. thanks!

Thanks @spwolf , that was indeed the problem! Nothing was selected under “Font size” so I guess it just used 6 by default. Anyway, set to the desired size and all is good again!

@MDuss said in Power Archiver 20018 and Outlook 2016: Hi Spywolf. When you are in the add-ins menu from the option and you want to open the configuration from an other addin like for example “Microsoft-Exchange-Add-In” do you get then the windows which tells you that this add-in have no configuration settings or do you get the window from powerarchiver although you have selected for example the “Microsoft-Exchange-Add-In” Add-in? MfG MDuss In the future update, we will remove separate add-in menu in options, so you will be able to configure it via toolbar only, as Microsoft wants. That way there is no confusion. Let us know if you notice anything else, thank you!

Working fine… It’s solved, thanks!

@jra85 said in PA 2019: Small Folder Tree Icons on High-DPI Screens: Hi, I’m using PowerArchiver 2019 on a 27" 4k display scaled at 200% in Windows 10, and there’s a minor issue where the icons in the folder tree are small: https://imgur.com/a/G29i1HZ The icons in the archive content view appear to be fine. we can certainly scale treeview icons better… thanks for the report.

@Luxor said in PA Virtual Drive update???: @spwolf said in PA Virtual Drive update???: @Luxor said in PA Virtual Drive update???: It has returned in 19. how annoying! Things look normal in 24. yeah, i updated it again last night on the server side

@razor19 said in PowerArchiver shell extensions possibly crashing windows explorer.exe: I have done additional testing and have confirmed my crashes are 100% caused by PowerArchiver. I did a fresh clean install of Windows 10 and this time did NOT install PowerArchiver along with all my other programs. I saw no crashes for a month. So I installed PowerArchiver again and got a crash within an hour. I have since uninstalled PA again and have seen no such explorer.exe crashes since. Unfortunately, this is annoying enough to me that I will not be re-installing PA. Enough is enough. @razor19 As I mentioned above, we have taken some measures in PA 2019, so if you want to test and contribute, please let us know via support at conexware dot com and we will get you latest internal release… thank you!

Hi @Chris-Steinbeck-Bell There definitely isn’t a problem with your license, it just seems that it does not have the Advanced Codec Pack(.PA format) included. We did have a couple of earlier 2018 versions where the .PA format was unlocked while it was not supposed to and that was a bug. Upon solving the bug, it worked as intended, for PowerArchiver users who have the advanced codec pack. You may renew your license through your account at www.conexware.com/shop, which will include the .Pa format as well.

Hi Mesamit, We have replied through support, regarding the Select plan. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance. Thanks!

@ianac said in Error during extraction from self-extracting archive (v18.01.04 - 64bit): Apologies for replying to my own post - hope i havent broke a forum rule. It seems there might be an issue with that self-extracting file linked to in my original post because i’ve just created a temporary Win10 VM to run it in and the self-extracting file also generates zero length files too. However i still think there is an issue with PA because an updated source archive was posted a few weeks later and can be found in this link… https://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-src-3.1.5-1.exe Running that self-extracting file does not create any zero length files but when it is opened in PA they are still shown as being zero length and the same error occurs when extracting them. seems like NSIS installer latest release changed something and our extractor does not work anymore (properly)? Will check, thanks for the update.

@Nézih said in Can not open .nrg files: hstgdhdqhstdhsgqhgds Are you sure about that?

Looks like a spammer to me.

@Havokdan said in Viewing Archive Properties: @spwolf said in Viewing Archive Properties: @bigdog said in Viewing Archive Properties: It is with the modern toolbar. I guess the default as I don’t remember changing that. alt+tab to bring it out in modern… It was not alt+enter? Of course it is alt+enter, sorry about that, typing too fast

@The_PurSpyk said in Adverts in PowerArchiver: It was very quick and my program is registered, just thought it was odd. I could not replicate it. let us know if it happens again, it was likely a nag screen, not sure why would it happen though? Not planned in any case. Thanks!

there will be changes for sure in PA 2019… not started yet on cloud functionality but will keep you updated. Thanks

Please add support for ownCloud / Nextcloud, thanks.

I’m also Interest in such an setting. I hope you guys from ConeXware can provide such an Feature in an Future update.

This doesn’t seem to be working in 18.01.04 anymore? I just opened a zip file and the folder tree was collapsed again. Just to be clear, archive opens up in “Archive Mode”, I’m using “Explorer View”. I’d expect to get the result on the right side, but actually I see the tree collapsed as on the left side: I think it worked fine in 18.01.03

great, thanks for letting us know… Yeah, there is no auto update for portable obviously.

@spwolf You are correct. They’re clearly not like your average text file.

Forgot to mention that, the issue was with shell extension. Thank you.

@spwolf It’s not pretty on your side to implement - and it’s not pretty on my side to work with, if I don’t know how the string will finally look in the application. I can’t imagine a good and easy way to keep track of the handled strings. I mean I don’t know if all of them are still used in the application and where they are used. So basically I would need to report all strings if I find one in the application (wrong for sure) and everytime I find one in the translation (maybe wrong, maybe already handled - which can only be checked by you). And not only me, but also any other translator and user. But on the other hand, changing it in my translation file will only change the German translation of PowerArchiver, changes done by you will correct all localized versions. It will be pretty easy to keep track of the changed strings, if I make them in the localization, as they appear in the category “Problems/Warning”, in case I replace %APPNAME% by PowerArchiver. That would be easy for me, but doesn’t help for other translations, until you look into the translation files and adapt the other translations (or ask the translators to do so). Your decision…

Hi, I’ve just noticed, that the localization of the shell extension doesn’t work in PowerArchiver. My OS is Windows 10 x64 1803. If I right click in the standard explorer the PowerArchiver shell extension is localized. If I right click in the file listing insider PowerArchiver, the shell extension is English.

@guido said in Language Issues (Dutch): ehh. I dont know. Let me check. I sent 10/5 version again… should be the latest one.

@spwolf said in Dark skin, button not transparent.: i wonder how this came to be Gremlins probably.

Hi. Do you have some news my traduction problems ?

That’s better.

no sorry. Did a reinstall.

@BigMike said in [BUG] UAC support broken in PowerArchiver 2018: Now I get error messages as expected. thanks for your help Michael!

@bigdog encrypt filenames should work fine in 18.01.03 now… please check it out, thanks!

Seems to work fine in PA 18.01.03 - thank you again

@spwolf said in No Move with Compress with Options: @bigdog said in No Move with Compress with Options: Just curious why disabled with 7z format but not others? Basically the process is the same no matter the format. Copy files into the new archive, verify validity, and then delete (wipe) the original files. we have better access with other engines than with 7z/pa… Interesting… well hopefully that can be resolved at some point. Thanks