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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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).
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.
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.
PA 22.00.09
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Question about "Make large ZIP file (over 4GB)" option
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Is the “Make large ZIP file (over 4GB)” option automatically enabled when creating a ZIP archive which will contain more than 65535 files ?
I ask because while PA cannot automatically determine if the resulting ZIP archive will be larger than 4GB, it will know if the archive will contain more than 65535 files since PA counts the number of files before compressing so it can show the progress.
If PA doesn’t already do this, can you add this feature to PA. Do you want me to post another thread in the Wishlist forum ?
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It is not automatically enabled.
I think the problem is that the main advantage of Zip format is speed.
If the compression is delayed by this automatic check of the number of files before compressing, then maybe the speed advantage of Zip would be lost?Perhaps, nowadays, PA should have this flag activated by default - and let user Deactivate it when required for “old Zip 2” compatibility.
It is not clear (to me) what happens if you activate this flag and there is less than 4GB /65535 files - is Zip 4.5 format still used? (Assuming that deflate64 has NOT been activated.)
Of course, individually, you can set the options you want to use as default via the compression profile.
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In my opinion, this option is nonsense. There is no need to do some checking ahead, exept for the total size of the single file beeing compressed, and this check has to be done for every file, regardless of whether one is creating a zip64 archive or not.
The relevant portions of zip64 archives are kept in special locations in the Central Directory of a zip archive, and the Central Directory is written to disk when the rest of the archive has been finished, means the total count of files etc. is known at this point.
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If you create a zip file inthe old format of zip then add more files to it it can reach its limited and there is no way in powerarchiver to convert to zip64 format.
Without extracting the files then re zippingthem in zip64 format. -
This option was first introduced when only selected few applications supported extended ZIP format (4.5) in 2002, which meant that your files created with PowerArchiver most likely will not be readable by someone who does have PowerArchiver or PkZip. Today few other compression utilites support it as well so in one of the future versions, option will be enabled by default.
thanks,
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that would be a good idea but if you reread your message you just posted it does not make sence.