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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 -
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.
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In PowerArchiver 2023 22.00.06 configuration, the option labelled “Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts” seems to be redundant.
I am only allowed to change this option when PA Starter is disabled, and then it seems to be ignored.
When I enable PA Starter this option is forced to the enabled state.
I think it’d be good to remove “Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts” completely. I’ve always found it confusing having both options.
Added later: However i don’t particularly want to use queue but I do like having the PAStarter icon in my tray area.
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W10 Pro 22H2 - 64 -bit
PA 22.00.06 (PA 2023)
It has been the case with previous versions of PowerArchiver, but I had hoped that the latest might behave differently. Not so, I’m afraid.
I have, for various obscure reasons, created a few .pa archives, mainly in the hope that they will save me some more space. From time to time, I use the “Test” option to check that important archives are OK and uncorrupted.
With every .pa archive I’ve tested, the process runs through OK but then reports that there are errors. This is always the number of files in the archive e.g. if 11 files, then 11 errors reported.
In the .pa, I can:-
preview the files (usually PDF) extract some or all files and look at or use them convert the .pa to a .zip or .zipx archive, which then works fine and tests without errorsIs it the case that the Test routine isn’t designed for .pa archives, or is there another reason? Although the .pa seems to function properly, despite the test reporting errors, I would like to be sure that every .pa is OK and not “broken”.
Some of the .pas are quite old and produced with earlier PA versions (they are truly “archives”). If I extract all the files in the old .pa, create a new, fresh .pa and add back the files to that, then test the new, no errors (at least in the .pa I’ve tried this on) are reported. This would suggest a mismatch between old .pas and newer versions of PA itself.
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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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See the, supposedly, blank space where the green box is? It’s like that in Modern Light theme too. I can toggle it, but it’s missing text or shouldn’t be there I guess?
Thanks :)
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Dear @Alpha-Testers and all of our users,
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Please let us know here if you have Mac and can test latest builds.Features implemented:
PowerArchiver 2020 - tabbing, opening, extracting, adding, testing, favorite folders, support for multiple languages, opening via Finder, explorer mode, installer.
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To start testing, please sign up here in this thread, and we will send you latest build.
thank you!
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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.
How does PA 07 work on Vista?
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Does PA disable Vista’s built in zip support? Any possible conflicts? On XP, I unregistered XP’s zip dll file but I wasn’t sure about Vista. Thanks in advance!
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should work perfectly fine. PA doesnt disable Vista’s built in support, there is no need for that, it just associates itself with zip archives.
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Glad to hear it :)
The only reason I disabled it in XP is because of the way XP handled zipfiles. If you had a ton of zips in a directory, it would slow the scrolling way down.
Any ETA on a Final?
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If I right-click on the sample zipfile in the PA directory (TUTOR1.zip) to extract it in the same directory nothing happens.
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Denzilla, Funny enough I was going to ask the same question…
PA How far are we from the final?
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If I right-click on the sample zipfile in the PA directory (TUTOR1.zip) to extract it in the same directory nothing happens.
is that an bug report? :-)
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Hmmm, we are in Tech Support and a feature is not working as it should - so you can call it a bug report. ;)
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Hmmm, we are in Tech Support and a feature is not working as it should - so you can call it a bug report. ;)
we are in “How does PA 07 work on Vista” thread :-). So, you should start an different thread for bug report.
But I think your issue is probably with having to restart your computer after installation - have you done so?
thanks,
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I just installed B8 and now something happens. :)
A error message is shown:
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PowerArchiverError creating destination file “”. Check that file is not in use.
OK
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screenshot please…
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Here you are
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oh, welcome to Windows Vista… you can create files in C:\program files\
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we will check for better error message, thanks for reminding me about that
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What version of Vista are you using?
What it does is sends the file to another folder which is somewhere in your Users folder… I need to check better for that…
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You can create files in C:\Program Files but you have to deal with UAC. There are other compression programs around which support UAC already. So it should be possible for PA too. :)
I’m using the final RTM build.
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We need to check on that since I have not found anything 2 months ago when looking for it….
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p.s. it should work if you set PA to be started as running under admin, by right clicking on pa.exe… Try if that works?
thanks
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You see, if people dont complain, we will not find out about things that we need fixing, so COMPLAIN!!!
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p.s. it should work if you set PA to be started as running under admin, by right clicking on pa.exe… Try if that works?
thanks
Yes, it works if I set pa.exe to start everytime with admin rights. But now PA requests admin rights on every start. That is not the intention of UAC. PA should only request admin rights if there is a need for.
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Yes, it works if I set pa.exe to start everytime with admin rights. But now PA requests admin rights on every start. That is not the intention of UAC. PA should only request admin rights if there is a need for.
yep… except that UAC doesnt allow for runtime elevation of rights, so you end up with having to redesign how you do everything because of it…
If we could do it at run time, change process rights, while showing an notification window, then it would be easy.
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yep… except that UAC doesnt allow for runtime elevation of rights, so you end up with having to redesign how you do everything because of it…
Try to copy a file with Explorer to the program files dir. Explorer requests elevation and the operation continues.
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Try to copy a file with Explorer to the program files dir. Explorer requests elevation and the operation continues.
as an different process…
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as an different process…
No. Open the task manager and you will see, that no additional explorer.exe is launching…
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No. Open the task manager and you will see, that no additional explorer.exe is launching…
you can elevate com objects, you cant elevate process… You can check it out on MSDN if you wish.
This is done so virus or spyware cant elevate itself half an hour after you clicked on it, and then show you false name in the prompt…
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p.s. we can do that too anyway, it is just not an 5 minute job of elevating the process, rather you have to rewrite how application creates and extracts files (do it outside main PA process).
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you can elevate com objects, you cant elevate process… You can check it out on MSDN if you wish.
Cool, than you have to work with elevated COM objects. :)
