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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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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 :-)
Can I have a link or can it be fixed. Thank you. CU later -
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!
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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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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.
PowerArchiver does not save changes in Excel
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Hi,
I use PowerArchiver to encrypt and archive an Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file that I periodically update.What I do is I click on the “PAE” file which has the encrypted and zipped Excel file, I am asked for password which I enter, I am then asked for another password with I enter, then I get to access the Excel file.
I add and/or update some rows of Excel data, then I click save.
When I exit Excel, I am prompted by PowerArchiver (PA) if I want it to update the archived file - to which I choose “Yes”. I check the date/time shown on the Excel file in the archived Excel file shown in PowerArchiver which looks OK, i.e. that it has updated the archived file with my updates.
I then close/exit the opened PowerArchiver file - at which time I am asked if I want to save my updates - to which I reply “Yes”.
However, when I go back to check if the updates have been saved, I see that they have not been saved.
This has caused me to use a workaround which takes a lot of steps and time … i.e. deleting the Excel shown in the PowerArchiver folder, then savingthe Excel file and encrypting and archiving it within the folder…… I cannot continue to do this, I will be forced to STOP using PA.
HELP!!!
Thanks and Regards
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this should be fixed in next release, I think you reported it before. We discovered something similar with simply updating file, If I remember correctly, and the issue was that it wasnt functioning properly if you saved file several times (PA would only check first time.
So try editing excel file, save it once only, and then exit PA - does that make it work?
thanks,
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Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
However, I tried your suggestion and when I saved the Excel file and then quit Excel.
PA asks me it I want to save updates and I choose YES, but it does not save the updates.
On the other hand I tried a different path which worked. I tried to exit Excel without saving the changes I had made, and when the Excel prompt came asking if I wanted to save the changes I chose YES. Then PA asked me if wanted to update the changes to which I chose YES. It saved the changes. So this might be a good workaround I can use, eventough it is different from best practices I use of first saving the Excel updates before trying to exit.
Regards
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Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
However, I tried your suggestion and when I saved the Excel file and then quit Excel.
PA asks me it I want to save updates and I choose YES, but it does not save the updates.
On the other hand I tried a different path which worked. I tried to exit Excel without saving the changes I had made, and when the Excel prompt came asking if I wanted to save the changes I chose YES. Then PA asked me if wanted to update the changes to which I chose YES. It saved the changes. So this might be a good workaround I can use, eventough it is different from best practices I use of first saving the Excel updates before trying to exit.
Regards
save it as normal, then when you want to exit, do some “fake” change, such as adding one letter somewhere and then exit?
What is strange is that action itself should be completly the same - it might be that excel itself is saving files differently for whatever reason, we have to investigate that a bit better to see what exactly Excel does.
thanks - if you discover anything else, please let us know - and update the thread to make sure we update it for next release.
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Hi,
I’ve experienced the exact same thing with PA it seems to be a problem with the Power Archiver updating its archive more than Excel saving as when you open a document from PA and make an amendment to it then save it stores the new version in a temp folder as below.
Now when PA provides you the message "File “abe” was modifiled do you want to update the archive? and you select yes it seems to have difficulties gaining this data.
What I have noticed is when you open the document in question make the changes press the save button Twice! once to bring up the message “archive changed do you want to save” then again and close the document down…
This seems to do the trick.
The temp folder which is only available when you have the encrypted zip open and are working on the document is as follows;
C:\DOCUME~1\User1232\LOCALS~1\Temp_PA560
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It seems to me that excel updates file twice when you hit save (probably something to do with temp file it creates) - and PA catches first update if you hit exit in Excel after saving.
Try this:
1. Edit file in excel
2. Hit save
3. When PA asks you first time, click OK
4. PA will then ask you 2nd time, click OK again.Does that work? It seems as if you hit only save and exit, PA catches first one and doesnt have time to catch second update of the file.
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ok, so basically, when PA asks you to update, dont update until you actually exit Excel - this means that when Excel updates its file for 2nd time (with proper, modified version), PA will save it.
Maybe it would be good if we could make our update window show in background, so you will see it only when you exit Excel. I will see if that is possible.
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Hi Spywolf,
Sounds like a solution to me, I have tried this and it works it is on the second save and final exit of excel that the documents updates its archive.
If your good at macros you could always setup excel to save twice and close automatically for you.
Would be nice if PA As you said would show you the progress of updates in the background!
However, if I was a guesing man i would say that this same problem happens with other file types. - will look into it.