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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Weird compression issue
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Using PA version 9.64
I have one directory with about 98 zip files. All zip files pass PA archive test and can be uncompressed without error. The problem is if I uncompress to same directory, delete the original zip file, PA will not re-compress the file I just uncompressed. If I right-click on the file and select to compress to .zip, it just pops up the compression window for like a split second, then goes away without a zip file being created. Here’s where is gets weird: I can compress them using 7zip back to zips, use PA to uncompress, and then PA will compress those. I played around with a few other directories on my disk and it appears to be isolated to this one particular directory. If I duplicate the contents to another dir, they experience the same problem. Does anyone know WTH would cause this? Seems like something is out of wack with these particular files, but I would think they would fail the test if something was wrong with them.
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It seems to me some weird permissions issue?
Check permissions for those files in properties tab and see if that helps.
thanks and marry christmas!
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Using PA version 9.64
….I can compress them using 7zip back to zips, use PA to uncompress, and then PA will compress those. I played around with a few other directories on my disk and it appears to be isolated to this one particular directory. If I duplicate the contents to another dir, they experience the same problem.
What type of files are these? What is your operating system and language configuration? Are you running an antivirus program? If so, what brand and version?
If you are running Windows XP, can you compress the files using right-click, Send To –> Compressed (zipped) Folder?
Also, if it is possible for you to divulge, what is the full path to the files you are attempting to compress with PA? Are the path names using any strange encoding?
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I’m running XP Pro sp2 fully updated and Kaspersky 6 as my AV. If I right-click and try to compress to zip, it just pops up a progress window for split second and nothing is created. No luck making a zip file from the “New” option in the context menu, either. If I drag the files inside the archive, nothing is there when I check its contents. The directory is just a run of the mill c:\zipfiles so nothing odd there.
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I’m running XP Pro sp2 fully updated and Kaspersky 6 as my AV. If I right-click and try to compress to zip, it just pops up a progress window for split second and nothing is created. No luck making a zip file from the “New” option in the context menu, either. If I drag the files inside the archive, nothing is there when I check its contents. The directory is just a run of the mill c:\zipfiles so nothing odd there.
what about creating an new txt file in the same folder?
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Anything new I put into the dir behaves fine. I went ahead and unzipped all the files and re-zipped using 7-Zip so they’re all working fine now. PA is able to unzip and rezip them now. There had too be something out of wack with the files themselves, but it doesn’t make sense that 7-zip had no problem with them and PA did. I doubt its related, but I had an issue a few months ago where I couldn’t drag files from any directory into a PA zip file. They would just overlap the icon. That was fixed by re-installing PA, but that didn’t work for this problem.
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I’m running XP Pro sp2 fully updated and Kaspersky 6 as my AV. If I right-click and try to compress to zip, it just pops up a progress window for split second and nothing is created…
Try these and see what happens:
1. Disable Kaspersky AV and attempt the zip.
2. If using a third-party (non-xp) personal firewall, re-enable the XP firewall and disable the third-party firewall. Again attempt the zip
3. Attempt the zip by first launching PA then dragging the file onto the PA interface.
4. Launch Control Panel –> Administrative Tools --> Event Viewer and check the Application, Security, System, and (if you have one) Antivirus events to see if you get any interesting errors.spwolf: Might it be a good idea to add a logging option (off by default) to PA? ;)
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Anything new I put into the dir behaves fine. … I doubt its related, but I had an issue a few months ago where I couldn’t drag files from any directory into a PA zip file. They would just overlap the icon. That was fixed by re-installing PA, but that didn’t work for this problem.
Hmmm… maybe your system needs a good scandisk?
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Anything new I put into the dir behaves fine. I went ahead and unzipped all the files and re-zipped using 7-Zip so they’re all working fine now. PA is able to unzip and rezip them now. There had too be something out of wack with the files themselves, but it doesn’t make sense that 7-zip had no problem with them and PA did. I doubt its related, but I had an issue a few months ago where I couldn’t drag files from any directory into a PA zip file. They would just overlap the icon. That was fixed by re-installing PA, but that didn’t work for this problem.
seems to be as if it was permissions/ownership problem. PA’s zip engine respects those, while 7zip’s dont (including 7zip in PA itself).
As long as it works, great!
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I checked the permissions on the files and they’re set just like normal archives that anyone has access to. Shouldn’t PA pop up some sort of error message about permissions?
I did run a checkdisk, btw. All is good and nothing in my error logs.
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I checked the permissions on the files and they’re set just like normal archives that anyone has access to. Shouldn’t PA pop up some sort of error message about permissions?
I did run a checkdisk, btw. All is good and nothing in my error logs.
you checked ownership of the files? Not system/read only, etc, which are the attributes…
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If this happens again, see if something has the file opened, which I think might prevent PA from being able to re-compress it. You can use “OpenedFilesView” from NirSoft to check for this:
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Ownership was set to full control for admin as well as my user account.
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Ownership was set to full control for admin as well as my user account.
One thought I had, was that there may have been a possibility that the attributes of those files somehow got set to SYSTEM and PA was not configured to include system files in its archive. Since I am now using PA 2007 Beta, I cannot confirm.
However, if you still have one of those files that PA could not compress, you can open a command window, cd to the directory containing the file, and type attrib. If the you see an “S” to the left of the file, it means it’s a system file. If so, check your PA default preferences to see if including system files is disable, then enable it and try again.
That’s the last possibility I can think of.
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I don’t have them now to test that but I do remember the attribute as “A” listed in explorer.
Is PA20007 stable enough to use as primary archiver? Where can I get th latest beta?
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I don’t have them now to test that but I do remember the attribute as “A” listed in explorer.
Is PA20007 stable enough to use as primary archiver? Where can I get th latest beta?
I find PA 2007 very stable; however, mine is a rather simple English language setup - no fancy theming or whatnot. If you have any weirdness going on, YMMV.
If you’re not a licensed user of PA, you’ll have to wait for the public beta. The public beta should be out sometime soon, so it might be better to just wait anyways, since some more bugs will be fixed by then.
For more information, read the sticky at the top of this Tech Support thread.
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I’m a licensed user :)
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I’m a licensed user :)
Then read the information in the sticky at the top of this Tech Support thread. It tell you how to get cracking.