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PA2023 Win10, (same problem with older releases but never reported)
PA Soft is installed on partition D. (exclusive for installed progs)
Then I created on my partition G: the folders as configured in PA Settings ‘Folders’.0fcf1b09-1b91-4b74-b250-f8cf908a3348-Ashampoo_Snap_maandag 20 maart 2023_11h54m34s.png
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The problem : Any activity on PA is saved in these folders…
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I am still using Powerarchiver 2022 and it does not show pdf markups in the preview. Is there a setting to get version 2022 to show pdf markups in the preview? If not, does this work in version 2023?
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The question that I have about PA archives is what happens if say ConeXware, as a company, dies in the future? What happens to any PA files that are created today? Can these files be decompressed with a copy of a PowerArchiver that can no longer phone home to the mothership thus can’t be registered or activated?
I mean, I can understand that new PA files wouldn’t be able to be created if the program isn’t registered but what about an un-registered copy because well, the question that I posed above?
It’s questions like this that make me not want to store anything really valuable in PA files out of fear that I, at some point in the future, might lose access to said data inside those files. OK, 7ZIP might not be able to compress as heavily as PA but at least it’s open source and any 7ZIP files will still be able to be read and decompressed ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.
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For some reason, the PowerArchiver functions in the Windows 11 context menu no longer work after the last Windows Update. Only the functions in the classic context menu function as they should.
I’ve tried uninstalling PowerArchiver and using RevoUninstaller to remove all bits and pieces that were left behind and did a clean install of PowerArchiver, it didn’t fix the issue. Other items in the Windows 11 context menu work.
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Is this a known problem? Is there a fix coming? This is a primary reason I buy PA.
I’ve tried both methods I know to extract multiple zips at the same time. 1) Multi Extract feature in the GUI. 2) In Windows File Explorer, select multiple zips, right click, use PA context menu to Extract or Extract To…
Is there a setting I missed? Or maybe it really is processing in parallel, but I can’t detect it? Nothing tells me in the Processes in Task Manager that multiple PA extracts are running. And my CPU, memory and disk resources do not look like a lot of extracts are running.
I’m using PA 2022 Standard version 21.00.18 on Windows 11 Pro version 10.0.22621 Build 22621.
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In the latest version of PA, on W11 (latest build/SP) when you try to use the first level context menu - NOTHING HAPPENS (particularly when you do this from Downloads or Documents folders) - however I noticed that it DOES WORK when you use the context menu from the Desktop. Going to the second level context menu does work however.
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Is the version Preview 2023 also considered to be tested by the testteam ? In the past we got messages in the forum for testing out version x.x, to be downloaded by fastring, or I missed the one for 2023. (I discovered 2023 on the official web…)
CU, Pirrbe.
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PA 2023 22.00.08
Long time no seeing. So I start up the new year with a first problem : the virtual driver cannot be installed. Reason : it is missing in the Fast Ring PatchBeam Update Service…
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It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
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Hi there, been a user since 13 years now and in past whenever I had a problem or question I could email, however since 3 weeks it seems like everybody is dead?
Anyway, as kind of a last resort, I post this email a 4th time but in this forum instead now, in the hope for help:
"This is the 3rd time I am emailing you guys as I am missing a working code for the preview of Power Archiver 2023Can you please help me? I am a 13 years lasting customer of yours, and I am shocked thatr for whatever reason my support tickets are ignored now, why?
thanks in advance!
All the best!
Joerg" -
Re: Explorer.exe Crash on right click
This appears to be happening again with the Power Archiver 2022 shell extensions.
When I have Use Explorer Shell Extensions enabled in Power Archiver Configuration and right-click on c:\Users\username\Start Menu, (hidden Junction file), File Explorer crashes.
I have version 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit installed in Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1826).
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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!
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When the function for testing archives is invoked via the shell context menu (PowerArchiver > Test) then all the files in the archive get extracted to the current folder.
The test dialog reports as many errors as there are files in the archive but it fails to give any hint as to which files are supposed to be erroneous or what the nature of the problem might be. Comparing the extracted files to the originals shows no differences at all.
The .7z in question was produced with maximised compression settings in 7zip (taking forever but resulting in smaller archives than .7z produced by PowerArchiver with maximised settings). Therefore I wanted to see whether PowerArchiver can at least test .7z that it produced itself. Hence I had PowerArchiver convert a .pa with the same contents to .7z. There weren’t any errors reported but the resulting .7z contained fewer than half of the files contained in the .pa (137 of 366), so I scratched that test.
Performance is abysmal when testing via the context menu (e.g. almost 2 minutes for testing a .7z that 7zip tests in 4 seconds), but that is most likely due to the fact that the extracted files are written to disk. Testing the same .7z in the PowerArchiver GUI takes only 8 seconds but causes the mysterious appearance of a UAC dialog, as reported elsewhere.
The testing function is vital because PowerArchiver has a history of producing archives that it cannot unpack without errors or that do not conform to the respective file format standards (e.g. ZIP) so that other programs report them as erroneous.
The point of creating archives is that the files in them will most likely have to be extracted at some point. If the extraction cannot be guaranteed to produce correct results then the whole program is absolutely pointless. Actually, worse than pointless - it causes data loss and hence damage.
Compressing Video Files
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Ok, I have noticed from time to time while on usenet, I have downloaded some videos that were compressed at unbelievable compression ratios. Example: I downloaded a video that had an actual size of say 100 megs. It was compressed down to about 18 megs, WOW.
I have just about tried every compression program on the net and I can’t seem to find one that does this. How do these people do this?
I have also tried uping the compression to Maximum, or Ultra etc… I have went to lengths to encode my videos from RAW AVI to just about every other video format in the world, and then compress them with every archival program I could find and I can’t seem to obtain these outragously low file sizes after being archived.
Could someone please tell me how these guys are doing this?
Another example is that I downloaded a 690 CD that was compressed to 280 megs. WoW again!!! This was a DivX video.
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I have never seen compression like that before. In fact the opposite. Over the last couple years I have downloaded numerous vid’s that were: RAR, ZIP and 7Zip and the compression ratios were at 0 to 2 percent.
All of these videos were either mpg or wmv. So I am guessing that each file format will have different compression ratios. Things like audio bitrate must be a factor.
Its interesting and I would like to read about other peoples experience with this topic.
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Ok, I have noticed from time to time while on usenet, I have downloaded some videos that were compressed at unbelievable compression ratios. Example: I downloaded a video that had an actual size of say 100 megs. It was compressed down to about 18 megs, WOW.
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Another example is that I downloaded a 690 CD that was compressed to 280 megs. WoW again!!! This was a DivX video.
Well, you have the files, what was the compression format used for the files you downloaded?
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lossy compression or lossless? I dont see how can something compress an divx file from 690 MB to 280 MB - that would mean that divx format itself is leaving at least 400 MB of extra, unneeded data in the file :-).
on the other hand, lossy formats like divx can always compress better not only because they are specific to one type of files, but because they are lossy - you loose quality for smaller size.
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I was just testing WMV and 7Z. I compressed a 163 MB WMV to 7Z (Max) and the compressed file is 164 MB. It actually came out slightly larger in file size.
Using NTFS on XP and the size on disk is larger for 7z as opposed to uncompressed WMV.
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Ok, All of the video files that were compressed had the *.zip extension.
I have been doing alot of research and I have noticed in most of my findings that you can actually “OverZiP” , kinda like “OverClocking” a compression.
WinZip & PKZip both have commandlines. Using the standard compression ratio’s in the GUI is not enough and you will not acheive the most ultimate compression. In addition to this, I found a program called, “ZipMax” found here at: http://www.clrmame.com were you can actually rezip a zip into a better compression using a totally different algorithem. According to the author, most zip archiving programs doesn’t compress to the max, even with max chosen. They breakoff at a certain point.
There is also another method I am just now finding out about, and this seems to be pretty cool but a little bit time consuming but maybe not once you get the hang of it. The program is called “KZIP”. and can be found here: http://www.compression-links.info/Link/1913_KZIP.htm
Kzip is command line only and I have yet found documentation on it and I’m assuming you would use commands of that found for PKzip.
I wonder if anyone has created a special zip program dedicated and geard towards file formats such as mpg,mpeg,rm,DivX,AVI (compressed),wmv…etc…?
I will continue with this endeavor until I find a solution. But I would bet my best bet is to loose the GUI and stick with commandline zipping methods.
EDIT: ADDED
I just found this website with a zip program dedicated to “multimedia” files. I’m going to check it out.
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None of that has absolutly nothing to do with compressing divx from 700 mb to 280 mb.
Zip/deflate compression will not get you anywhere. In fact, since all these multimedia formats are lossy and already compressed files you will not be able to compress them furthermore by any format, let alone something like zip.
Basic things you need to know:
a. Lossy compression - compression format where you loose quality to gain extra compression strenght (divx, mp3, etc).
c. Lossless compression - compression format where files are left exactly the same. Zip, 7zip, Rar, Ace, etc.From that, we go to facts:
a. Good lossy compression will by far outcompress lossless compression.
b. You can not improve upon lossy compression by lossless compression afterwards (in this case, ziping an divx).This is why you can choose quality of MP3 files for example - more quality, higher size, less quality, smaller size. There are lossless multimedia compression formats, however their sizes usually are 3-4x larger than high quality MP3’s so they are seldom used.
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p.s. “overziping” does not exist. Same sizes are achieved by both command line or GUI, other than possibility of some issues with software in question or completly different software code.
Another thing is that these are PowerArchiver forums - please refrain from mentioning/linking to other compression utilities.
thanks,
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i’ve tested the software and better results than anything i’ve seen before
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i’ve tested the software and better results than anything i’ve seen before
Oops, read this before looking at that - http://www.c10n.info/archives/415
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i only tested archiving the files up not extracting them.
we should have a list of bad compression foemats like this as it looks good on the outside but the inside its totally not very good.
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I am closing this thread. David, you know our policy better than most. Thank you!
