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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.
Password not working for PAE
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I’m having problems accessing my encrypted files. It keeps telling me that the password I’ve entered is invalid, and I’m 100% sure that it’s not!
I’ve tried typing it with caps lock on, num lock, pressing enter, clicking OK, etc. but nothing is working! It’s also really frustrating that it opens the file first and then checks the password, so I have to wait 15 minutes each time just to see if the password is right or not.
I think something really wierd is going on though, because the same thing happened to some other files of mine, and I kept re-entering the same password over and over until finally one of the times the password worked, and from then on all of the passwords worked.
I just can’t figure out what’s going on. I would really appreciate any help on this. Thanks a lot.
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there is no reason for password to work once and then doesnt work. Where did you save those .pae files?
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what version of pa doid you create the file in
try an ealier version of pa if it works there then it is a problem with pa
but i dout it. tested function and i can not get it to fail
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I use PAE files on a fairly regualr bases and have yet to have a problem with them not accepting the password. I’ve encrypted two files just today. I checked and everything decrypted fine. So just as davidsplash, I cannot get it to fail either.
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Thanks for the help guys. I made a test file and encrypted it and I was able to open it and everything worked fine. But when I go back to the files that I actually want to open it never accepts the password.
I’m going to take David’s advice though. I encrypted them a while back in an older version, so I’m going to try to download an older version and see if I can open them with it.
And I’ll keep trying whatever else I can think of. :confused:
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@Mr:
Thanks for the help guys. I made a test file and encrypted it and I was able to open it and everything worked fine. But when I go back to the files that I actually want to open it never accepts the password.
I’m going to take David’s advice though. I encrypted them a while back in an older version, so I’m going to try to download an older version and see if I can open them with it.
And I’ll keep trying whatever else I can think of. :confused:
where did you save the files? hard disk or cd?
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I saved the files in a folder on my hard drive.
And I also realized that in the download section there are no older versions, so I can’t try that out. But I don’t think that is the real problem. It’s something else that I can’t figure out.
There is one file that’s relatively smaller than the other huge ones in my folder. I had already extracted the files in it, so I didn’t really need to get it open again, but I wanted to see what would work to get it open and then apply that method to the bigger files (since with the small one I only need to wait a couple minutes to see if it accepts my password).
So I entered the password a few times and it said incorrect. And then on somewhere around the fourth time it accepted the password and opened it. But I didn’t do anything different that fourth time! That’s what’s so wierd about what’s going on.
So anyway, I guess I need to just keep trying over and over with the big ones, and hopefully one of the times it will “catch”.
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how large are the files? Maybe you can send them to us so we can check it out.
thanks,
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what keyboard do you have. it could be a faulty keyboard.
also what software is installed on your computer have you run anti virus and spayware software.
