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.
Hello!
Is there currently no portable version of PA2023 available?
(When) do you plan to release one?
Thanks!
If I compress a folder to a .pa using right click, Compress to folder.pa and use the new Windows 11 menu then the Options, Configuration, Miscellaneous, Use normal relative path setting is always enabled.
But I like this option disabled so I have to use the old style menu in order to get PA to compress a folder in the way I wish.
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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PA 22.00.09
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PA 22.00.09 shows a nag screen, when I try to open some setting windows. I have already PA 2023 Toolbox and PA shows, that it’s licensed in the info dialog.
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PA 22.00.09
Some labels in the help toolbar are not translated:
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I’m looking forward to deploying PowerArchiver 2023 to my users. Can you tell us when the MSI will be available for download and distribution?
Thanks.
Hi there,
there were some security issues fixed in 7zip:
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1165/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1164/
As it seems, that PowerArchiver and PACL use the 7zip libraries, could you please update them to the latest version?
Hi,
From where I get PAVD2023.EXE? PowerArchiver 2023 tries to open it.
But it seems, it tries to download PAVD2021.EXE.
Thanks
I noticed that the version of ZPAQ used is older than the latest released 7.15 https://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html also there seems to be a newer fork that adds several features https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz
It would be useful to implement this latest version (it also maintains the same syntax and behavior as the latest official release if used the -715 flag) and add when opening a zpaq file a choice of the version of the files to show (e.g. as dummy folders represented the various versions present). Since any previous changes are stored with this format, it is possible to extract a snapshot of a certain date/version.
If I open a password-protected zipper file (created with WinRAR but I think that’s irrelevant), open it with PowerArchiver and run “Remove Encryption” on the same file, then reopen it and add a password with “Encrypt Archive,” the resulting archive will be protected with the old ZipCrypto algorithm and not AES as indicated.
(this can be verified, for example, by trying to open the archive files with Windows Explorer, which does not support the AES algorithm)
PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
Discovered:
a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files.
Serious problem with 7z archive handling
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If you have a large 7z archive (413 MB, in my case) and you try to extract a single file, PA processes every file in the archive, just to extract the one file you’re after. :rolleyes:
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it is an solid archive, so as much as I remember, it shouldnt know anything about single files, right?
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it is an solid archive, so as much as I remember, it shouldnt know anything about single files, right?
I don’t understand your comment. However, the same files, archived with the ZIP format (456 MB), permits a single file to be extracted in practically not time.
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7zip is an solid archive usually, which means all files are trated as one huge file. End result of this is better compression. As the downside, you can not add files to the archive, or update them. When you extract single files, if it is an solid archive, it probably needs to extract all files from same filestream (usually not whole archive).
zip is not an solid format, so same does not apply.
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7zip is an solid archive usually, which means all files are trated as one huge file. End result of this is better compression.
I suppose this is the same case with .CAB? I was going to also test with a CAB archive, but it’s taking FOREVER to compress. 14 minutes has elapsed and I’m at only 25 %! :eek:
EDIT: I guess not. Creation of the .CAB archive (428 MB) completed about 14 minutes ago, and I was able to do the single file extraction pretty much as fast as with the ZIP archive.
I guess 7z is no good if you ever hope to extract single files from a large archive. :(
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I suppose this is the same case with .CAB? I was going to also test with a CAB archive, but it’s taking FOREVER to compress. 14 minutes has elapsed and I’m at only 25 %! :eek:
EDIT: I guess not. Creation of the .CAB archive (428 MB) completed about 14 minutes ago, and I was able to do the single file extraction pretty much as fast as with the ZIP archive.
I guess 7z is no good if you ever hope to extract single files from a large archive. :(
Yes, CAB is also a solid format (but as you found sometimes faster than 7z) - although the compression is usually not as good.
If you need to add or extract from 7z archives, just deactivate the option “Create Solid Archive”.
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If you need to add or extract from 7z archives, just deactivate the option “Create Solid Archive”.
Thanks for the info.
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Try SQX. It also creates solid archives and can of course update such archives.
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Try SQX. It also creates solid archives and can of course update such archives.
Another compression format! :eek: Why can’t we all just get along? :cool:
Ivan & spwolf, any thoughts of adding SQX to the list? :p
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Ivan & spwolf, any thoughts of adding SQX to the list? :p
It is already in the Wishlist (among many, many others).
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Another compression format! :eek: Why can’t we all just get along? :cool:
Ivan & spwolf, any thoughts of adding SQX to the list? :p
nope. there is nothing new there, another non open source format.
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Try SQX. It also creates solid archives and can of course update such archives.
works the same as every other solid format btw - if you want to update file, whole archive needs to be re-compressed, so basically it is hardly an updating :-). Same goes with extracting files, other files need to be extracted as well.