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I’m running PA 21.00.17 64-bit on a 64-bit i7 desktop with W10 Pro, latest version. This 32gb of installed RAM.
As I use the PA pbs system for a number of scheduled archiving operations throughout the day, PA Starter is set to load and run at system startup.
In the course of trying to identify some causes of slowness and bottlenecks in other processes, I notice that PA Starter (PAS) always runs at between 11% and 15% of CPU (see screenshot), usually at about 12-13%. This is by far the highest demanding process on the system, as shown by Task Manager. In Performance Monitor, PAS Average CPU is 8.32, with every other process at less that 1 i.e. in decimal places only.
Task Manager also shows PAS Power Usage as “Very High”, and is the only process shown thus.
I have looked again at the information about PAS at https://wiki.powerarchiver.com/en:help:details:powerarchiver_starter, which was last modified in 2016. The article states a low memory usage for PAS of 784k, which is fair enough, but it is the large CPU overhead which is of concern.
It is of course possible to change the PAS priority, but this has no effect on CPU overhead.
However, is it possible to change PAS, which is required only at intervals to initiate PA scheduled tasks, from consuming so much system resource for every moment of the day?
PA Starter.jpg
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Hello,
PowerArchiver Command Line 7 support file greater than 2 Go ?
Thanks
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i just registered my own copy and i need some help to set it…
if i set the ‘configuration>shell extension>open folder after extracting’ checkbox, after decompress an archive is opened the file manager on that folder but… if somebody is using a different file manager how to open XYplorer or Directory Opus for example and NOT the MS file manager?
consider this as a feature request also if not available within the 2022 version
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I am looking for a way to stop the UAC elevation prompt when running Powerarchiver. In an old post about PA 2019, someone asked this and got a response to uncheck “all users” at the prompt but I am not seeing where one can do this. It definitely seems like the way to go though as if I click on “More Details” at the prompt I see that it is trying to run “_pautil.exe /paassociate /allusers /my(long binary string)”. Can you let me know? Thanks.
PS I tried renaming _pautil.exe and this worked, but I don’t know what the consequence of doing this may be so I would like to do this properly, thanks.
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Just a question is Ashampoo zip pro 4 built by Powerrachiver as it is very similar and uses the pae encryption.
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Hi,
Is it possible to transfer one of my existing PC Licenses to my MacBook? -
Re: Transfer PC License to MacBook iOS
Here is the email…
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 1:20 PM Rich DiBenedetto rmdibened@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
Could you assist me with this?
Can I use my current licenses with MacOS?
If not, can I transfer a license to MacOS?Cheers and Have a Great Day,
RichOn Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:35 AM ConeXware, Inc. ordering@conexware.com wrote:
Dear Richard DiBenedetto,Thank you for supporting PowerArchiver! Please find your activation and registration codes below.
*** Online Activation ***
PowerArchiver Select for PowerArchiver Toolbox English - LIFETIME
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There would be many of us with Intel Processors.
and they have their own optimized zlib algorithm, which can result in more efficiency if used combined with their hardware processor.
Reference:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/zlib-compression-whitepaper-copy.pdfCan we get the same Functionality Under Hardware Acceleration Feature?
Zlib is not the only feature that intel has included with their processor, there’s many, which if combined can result in efficient and better compression ratios.
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Right buttons are not visible
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Greetings, new customer searching for help and/or refund…
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Hi Dear,
Cannot login and request resend license code for my fd
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With PowerArchiver context menu enabled, it is crashing Windows 10 File Explorer when right-clicking on the Default User junction in C:\Users. Had 2021 installed, updated to today’s 2022, still getting same crash. Must have Hidden files and folders set to Show, and Hide protected operating system files cleared in File Explorer Options|View.
Windows 10 Enterprise Version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1708) (64-bit)
PowerArchiver 2022 Version: 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit
Licensed:
PowerArchiver Toolbox Edition Personal EnglishDisabling PowerArchiver context menu using Autoruns: on the Explorer tab, uncheck PowerArchiver64 under HKLM\Software\Classes\Folders\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers and the crash does not happen.
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Hello,
When clicking on the main ribbon for a new version I get a script error message.
Actual version: 21.00.15 - French version
OS: W10 21H2 19044.1645Best regards
WilfridPS: Keep building such good software
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when clciking on powerarchiver update from within powerarchiver we get a windows for the update but it nows sayes script errors. I think it could be due to windows update in windows 10 can you look into it. By pressing cancel it seems to be ok. It seems that the page being displayed as erros on it.
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From within PA on the extract popup, buttons are hidden, I must resize the window to get access to the OK/Cancel buttons. Tried on the default notebook screen (Macbook M1 Max 14") as well as on my external monitor (4k).Screenshot_2022-05-12_10-02-10.jpg
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Just uncompressed a RAR file that has a folder within, PA created the folder but the files inside are not being saved into folder because directory separator is a BACKSLASH (Windows style) instead of SLASH (macOS).Screenshot_2022-05-12_09-59-08.jpg
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Ho già contattato il supporto con il modulo presente qui https://www.powerarchiver.com/it/contact/ da settimane ma non ho ricevuto riscontro e ora che ho aggiornato alla versione 21.00.15 ho notato che il problema persiste.
Quando clicco PDF Encrypt & Sign nel tab Crittografia appare la schemata riportata sotto come se mancassero le funzionalità.I’ve already contacted support with the form here https://www.powerarchiver.com/it/contact/ weeks ago but I haven’t received any feedback and now that I’ve updated to version 21.00.15 I’ve noticed that the problem persists.
When I click on PDF Encrypt & Sign in the Encryption tab the schematic below appears as if the functionality is missing.de9b4a2d-07e7-4323-a5a3-1b91e73dafc0-image.png
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I have tried to burn a DVD with PowerArchiver 2022 Final, but it didn’t work because PA didn’t found the external DVD-Burner.
I have tried several burners from Sony, LG, Dell.
I have connected the burners with several USB-Ports but unfortunately without any success.
With other burning software, e. g. Nero, all burner worked perfect on each USB-Port.
The same problem occured with PA2018 and it was solved with an update, but I don’t remember the detailed software version.
Could you check the possibility of an bug, please?
Thank you for your support in advance!
Problems with backup up network disk
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I am trying to back up a network disk (Samba) to my XP machine. It is about
1 Gb, 80,000 files, about 10 directory levels max.If I try to schedule a backup job (to zip) using PA, it runs, but only archives about 15% of it all. No error messages. If I try to directly zip from PA, using deflate 64, it does much the same thing. There does not seem to be anything special where it stops.
If I back up the drive using the pacomp command line utility, I do not get errors, and it seems to put all or almost all files in the archive. paext and info-zip unzip do not seem to see anything wrong with this archive, and the number of files is in the ballpark.
However, if I open the same archive with PA, it only sees about 15% of the files and storage. No error messages. If I run test from the menu, it finds no errors, though it still only sees about 15%.
I tried earlier to back this drive up with zipbackup, which seemed to work, but zipbackup could not read the archive it had created, and info-zip said it was bad, though it could read at least some of it. When I opened this same archive in PA, PA did not see anything wrong with it, and apparently saw all 80,000 files.
What is going on here? It is self-evident from the archive sizes that the backups created within PA are incomplete, but is there any way to check whether the one created by pacomp is? Paexp test sees no
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Hi,
What version of PA are you using? PACL does not support extended zip specs, so it wont be fine for sure.
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Hi,
What version of PA are you using? PACL does not support extended zip specs, so it wont be fine for sure.
I use the latest version of PA and PACL, downloaded wednesday. I did some more poking around and think I now have a good idea what is going on.
The PACL command line utilities seem to handle zipping and unzipping this disk fine, with two minor problems that you may want to look at:
- pacomp.exe with the -w switch will
backup hidden files, but it does not back up hidden folders. I have to explicitly add the hidden directory names to the command line to get them backed up, like
PACOMP -r -w …. Z:*.* Z:.mutt*.*
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paext.exe with the -l switch will also redirect the prompt whether or not to overwrite files to the log file. Of course this prompt must still go to the terminal, the file is not going to answer. Or at least note into manual.txt that an overwrite option should be specified.
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The problem with PA seems to have been that I had a subfolder folder “MD”, as well as a subfolder “md” in the same folder. This is perfectly OK under Unix, but not possible under Windows. Unix-aware utilities like info-zip, and also pacomp, have no issue with that, but my guess is that both zipbackup and PA use a Windows Explorer engine to process the files and that the engine crashes on it without returning an error code. In any case, after I renamed one of the two subfolders, I was able to make a correct backup from PA (or rather from the context menu,) using deflate 64.
My idea is to stick with pacomp, because it is faster than PA, but should I worry that I have more than 65,000 files? I expanded all files with paext and compared them to the orginals (PC Magazine’s Window Match will actually do 80,000 files; I was surprised) and there were no differences. Will there be a warning if a limit is exceeded?
Leon
- pacomp.exe with the -w switch will
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Yeah, I definetly would not do anything out of zip specs with PACL.
There will be no error since the whole engine does not understand anything out of spec.Using PA 2006 will be much safer. I suggest that you disable deflate 64, since it is only extra compression strenght (zip 4.5 compatible “unlimited” archive will be created anyway), and PA 2006 should be quite fast actually, even possibly faster than PACL.
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Yeah, I definetly would not do anything out of zip specs with PACL.
There will be no error since the whole engine does not understand anything out of spec.Using PA 2006 will be much safer. I suggest that you disable deflate 64, since it is only extra compression strenght (zip 4.5 compatible “unlimited” archive will be created anyway), and PA 2006 should be quite fast actually, even possibly faster than PACL.
Thanks, I was indeed thinking that deflate was needed to get the 4.5. Since the pbs script seems to run fine from a batch file, I will use that then. Also, PA has no problems with the hidden directories.
Leon
Leon
