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).
The Windows 11 context menu for PowerArchiver on normal files (to be compressed, etc.) is now showing multiple tiers with two identical menus. See attached captures of the issue:
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Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
OS build 26100.2605
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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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.
PowerArchiver crashes when decrypting Rijndael AES 256bit.
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When descrypting two different encrypted files (with Rijndael AES 256bit), I get PowerArchiver crashing with the same message:
Access Violation at address 027C2E87 in module ‘PAISO.DLL’ read of address 00000000.
Additional info:
PowerAchiver version 9.63.02. My CPU is Core 2 Duo, and I am running Windows Home edition (32bit). -
what are the contents of pae archive? (what kind of files). And what is the file size?
thanks,
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One file is ~ 85MB, another ~ 376MB. There is only one file in each encrypted archive. Encrypted files are binary, not text files.
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what format?
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rar. Does encryption algorithm care what format the encrypting file is?
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rar. Does encryption algorithm care what format the encrypting file is?
depending on what options you are using, it might be automatically extracting archive as well.
I cant reporduce this issue easily. Can you please let me know how did you encrypt the archive (from where and what options) and how are you decrypting it?
thanks!!!
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I use shell extension both - to encrypt and decrypt. My moves:
1. Select a file to encrypt with right mouse button. choose Encrypt.
2. Change method to Rijndael AES 256 bit (default was Rijndael 128bit).
3. Check “Delete original file after encryption”.
4. Check “Hide filename”.
5. Leave “Create self extracting file” unchecked.
6. Enter password. My passwords are above 30 symbols in length. Yes, I know, I am too paranoid :)Passwords for files I get PowerArchiver chrashed are similar. I have encrypted one more(third) file with self extracting option turned on - it decrypts correctly.
To decrypt I use:
1. Click right mouse button on encrypted archive. Select “Extract to c:<path to=”" default=“” directory=“” for=“” archive=“”>
2. Enter password.</path> -
One strange thing. I just tried to encrypt ~135 MB file with the same password I used in one of those archives, which cannot be decrypted without crash. But when I click with the mouse right button on it - it says : “Decrypt to c:\blablabla”, not “Extract to c:\blablabla” as I see in those two archives I am not able to decrypt successfully. Is this significant?
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I was able to successfully decrypt both files using this procedure:
1. Start powerarchiver.
2. Do “Open” and browse to encrypted file. Open it.
3. After the “enter password” dialog appears, close it (if I enter correct password, PowerArchiver starts decrypting it, and it fails. I can see that, because after some time the label “Decrypting file….” with the progress bar in the status bar disappears, and the list of files inside opened encrypted archive is empty).
4. Now I can see the file I need to decrypt in the PowerArchiver window. I select it, and click the “Extract” icon in the menu above, enter correct password, path to decrypt the file to, and voila - decryption successful. -
thanks, we will look into it…