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    anything planned for the future or is this software just dead now?

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    News/Update on PowerArchiver/Connexion in 2024
    TheAndyMacT

    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).

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    BETA PowerArchive 22.00.11 - Windows 11 Context Menu duplicated/additional tier
    TheAndyMacT

    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

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    No Icons for SFX-Archives
    MerowingerM

    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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    Zip extraction from windows 11 by windows
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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?

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    Installer problem
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    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

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    Button alignment. About window.
    LuxorL

    Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen.
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    Button alignment on config window.
    LuxorL

    Buttons not aligned on configuration window.
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    BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10
    spwolfS

    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!

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    BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11
    spwolfS

    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!

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    Missing Icons
    LuxorL

    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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    THE SSL CERTIFICATE FOR *.POWERARCHIVER.COM HAS EXPIRED.
    Brian GregoryB

    @spwolf @Mili THE SSL CERTIFICATE FOR *.POWERARCHIVER.COM HAS EXPIRED.

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    PA2023 22.00.09 trying to delete a directory from a tar file.
    Brian GregoryB

    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.

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    PA 2023: No portable version?
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    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!

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    PA2023: Portable version missing?
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    Hello!
    Is there currently no portable version of PA2023 available?
    (When) do you plan to release one?
    Thanks!

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    2024
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    Will you be releasing 2024 soon?

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    PA 2023 Toolbox - 22.00.09 - Remove archive encryption
    PA_FanP

    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?

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    Bug extracting from ZIP etc using Extract here with PA 22.00.09
    Brian GregoryB

    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.

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    Any updates going to happen for the bugs reported?

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    Rar is gibberish

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      Stephen R
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      Dear PowerArchivers,

      I selected PowerArchiver in large part because I needed to open not only zip files but also rar files. It has always done a fine job; but suddenly when I try to open an rar I get gibberish.

      I have not yet done anything about this, such as uninstalling and reinstalling PowerArchiver. I did check to make sure that rar files were still associated, and as far as I can see everything that can be associated is associated, including rar.

      What should I do?

      Stephen R

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        TBGBe
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        @Stephen:

        It has always done a fine job; but suddenly when I try to open an rar I get gibberish. …

        So, other RAR files are uncompressed OK, it is only this particular one that is a problem - is that correct?
        Where is the “gibberish”? In the PowerArchiver window (filenames/folders) or in the resulting uncompressed files?

        Is it a single RAR or a split archive (how big is the archive)?
        What does “Test” report?
        How was it created - by you or downloaded from somewhere?
        Try to download it again - the download may be incomplete. Could you provide a link so that others can check it?

        Also, which version of PA and which OS are you using?

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          Stephen R @TBGBe
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          Hello Terry

          So, other RAR files are uncompressed OK, it is only this particular one that is a problem - is that correct?

          **Not exactly. It depends on what kind of file it is. A TIF file, for example, is uncompressed as a TIF and there is no problem. It seems that it is files that should be uncompressed as PDFs that are getting buggered up, and it’s not just one, it’s all of them.

          Where is the “gibberish”? In the PowerArchiver window (filenames/folders) or in the resulting uncompressed files?

          **Both. What happens is that instead of uncompressing the file as a PDF, PA is not uncompressing it as a HIP file, and the resulting uncompressed file opens in a word processor and looks like any PDF opened in a word processor–gibberish. I have not encountered HIP files before. Maybe I can fix it by just changing the file type designation? But why has PA gone over to opening them as HIPs?

          Is it a single RAR or a split archive (how big is the archive)?

          **Makes no difference

          What does “Test” report?

          “No error”; Test regards it as a compressed PDF

          How was it created - by you or downloaded from somewhere?

          **Downloaded. I have never compressed a file as an RAR, because most people in the West don’t have a program to open RARs (bless PA!). These are mostly from Russia, where RAR is apparently the standard type of compression, but almost everyone can also open PDFs. I suppose PA can make RAR files, but so far I have not needed to do this.

          Try to download it again - the download may be incomplete. Could you provide a link so that others can check it?

          **Yes, but the problem really is not with a particular file but with a class of them. As far as I know now, it is only files that are intended to be PDFs.

          Also, which version of PA

          **PA 2004

          and which OS

          **Windows ME

          are you using?

          Stephen

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            TBGBe @Stephen R
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            @Stephen:

            PA is not uncompressing it as a HIP file, and the resulting uncompressed file opens in a word processor … Maybe I can fix it by just changing the file type designation?

            I agree, obviously trying to open a pdf file in a word processor won’t work.
            @Stephen:

            Test regards it as a compressed PDF

            So the filename part is correct - only the HIP extension is wrong?
            The first thing to check is to rename and see if the contents of the pdf file is OK.
            @Stephen:

            **PA 2004

            OK (could be PA.9 through PA9.11) so an upgrade to PA 2006 would be worth trying.
            Currently 9.5 beta 7 is available. Also, as the PDF is Russian, there may be a Unicode problem.

            @Stephen:

            Downloaded

            Well, a link to a particular file (or site) that you are having the problem with would help. It is fairly difficult to “google” for a russian pdf file compressed in rar format :D

            I have tried compessing a PDF (english) with WinRAR 3.50 - PA 9.5 extracts it with no problem. :p
            (Note: PDF does not compress enough with RAR to make it worthwhile - I guess they do this “just because they can” :rolleyes: .)

            [OffTopic] PowerArchiver will NOT produce RAR files. Only WinRAR (or the commandline version can do this). You will always need one of these to produce RAR files.
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              mwb1100 @Stephen R
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              Can you post the file that has problems?

              Have you tried it with WinRAR itself?

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                Stephen R @mwb1100
                last edited by


                I agree, obviously trying to a pdf file in a word
                processor won’t work.

                So the filename part is correct - only the HIP
                extension is wrong?
                The first thing to check is to rename and see if the
                contents of the pdf file is OK.

                OK (could be PA.9 through PA9.11) so an upgrade to
                PA 2006 would be worth trying.
                Currently 9.5 beta 7 is available. Also, as the PDF
                is Russian, there may be a Unicode problem.

                **I upgraded to 9.5 Beta 7, and the problem
                disappeared. PDFs compressed to RAR are once again
                uncompressed to PDFs, not to HIP files.

                Well, a link to a particular file (or site) that you
                are having the problem with would help. It is failry
                difficult to “google” for a russian pdf file
                compressed in rar format :D

                I have tried compessing a PDF (english) with WinRAR
                3.50 - PA 9.5 extracts it with no problem. :p
                (Note: PDF does not compress enough with RAR to make
                it worthwhile - I guess they do this “just because
                they can” :rolleyes: .)

                Once I received microfilm from Russia that was folded
                rather than rolled. I don’t even try to figure it out.

                PowerArchiver will NOT produce RAR files. Only
                WinRAR (or the commandline version can do this). You
                will always need one of these to produce RAR files.


                **I should have known that. After all, I can’t distill
                PDFs on PowerArchiver. Anyhow, so far I have never
                needed to produce RAR files, and I don’t see why that
                should change in the foreseeable future (if there is
                such a thing), so I’ll worry about that when it
                becomes a worry–then I will have to get WinRAR, which I don’t have now.

                **Thanks for your help. Seems to be back to normal
                now, and I have the latest version. I have, by the
                way, recommended PowerArchiver–someone who was also
                getting RARs from Russian & couldn’t open them asked
                me, and I told her that for about $20 PowerArchiver
                would solve that problem and open ZIPs too. She
                immediately bought PowerArchiver and was quite pleased
                with it.

                Stephen

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                  TBGBe @Stephen R
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                  @Stephen:

                  I upgraded to 9.5 Beta 7, and the problem
                  disappeared. PDFs compressed to RAR are once again
                  uncompressed to PDFs, not to HIP files.

                  :D

                  @Stephen:

                  Once I received microfilm from Russia that was folded
                  rather than rolled. I don’t even try to figure it out.

                  :eek: :cool:
                  @Stephen:

                  then I will have to get WinRAR, which I don’t have now.

                  Or just stick with PA - try 7z format for better compression ;)

                  @Stephen:

                  Thanks for your help. Seems to be back to normal
                  now, and I have the latest version. I have, by the
                  way, recommended PowerArchiver–someone who was also
                  getting RARs from Russian & couldn’t open them asked
                  me, and I told her that for about $20 PowerArchiver
                  would solve that problem and open ZIPs too. She
                  immediately bought PowerArchiver and was quite pleased
                  with it.

                  Stephen

                  :) Don’t forget to update from the beta to the full 9.5 release when it is available.

                  P.S. I like these smilies :o

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                    Stephen R @TBGBe
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                    Or just stick with PA - try 7z format for better compression :)

                    Don’t forget to update from the beta to the full 9.5 release when it is available. :D

                    Right! I’ll watch for it! And thanks!

                    Stephen

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