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.
Updating / Installing PA
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Is there a way when “updating” to have the installer recognize that PA is already installed and not prompt for what options you want or to prevent the installer from wanting to change file associations? Does this already exist and I need to install manually with a switch or something?
Also, it would be nice if the “What’s New” file contained something of relevance to the specific minor releases we are installing. Maybe you could tell us what benefits we have just reaped in version 10.21.12 as opposed to the 10.21 base version? By the way, what is new in RC2?
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Installer does not know what options you have selected previously, but it does keep track of where you installed PowerArchiver. options are still presented in case you wished to change them.
As to these very small updates, they are bug fixes and we usually post in those reported bug threads when we have fixed an issue.
Since we usually issue these small releases in very short time frame, updating whatsnew is last thing on the list. For actual public releases, such as 10.21 you get nice list of changes, like you did for RC1.
thanks
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Ok, I know it probably seems nit picky but, is there any way to make setup default to having the boxes unchecked? If the “Additional Install Options” dialog box came up without the boxes checked I would still have the option to change my mind. However, I wouldn’t need to uncheck the options on every update.
These options seem unnecessary because:
1. If I had elected to have icons on the desktop or start menu they would still be there. If I had not wanted icons I wouldn’t check this anyway.
2. If I have custom file associations I wouldn’t want the install changing them and if they were already associated I wouldn’t need to reassociate them.
3. Not showing configuration options for first time installations for an update seems pretty straight forward.
4. Enabling the PA Queue if it is already enabled doesn’t make sense unless having the box unchecked turns it off.Thanks again, I know you guys have a lot of other things to worry about. I just thought I would throw this out there since I had updated again and it was something I had meant to ask before. Thanks for taking the time to respond, it’s appreciated!
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We could do all of that if we have had specifc upgrade packages instead of full instalations - but we currently update too frequently for us to be able to do that.
So yes, we could do upgrades but it simply takes too much of our time and it would be seperate installer from our general. We already have all the functionality in place to do them, just not enough time :-).
It has been on our todo list for the future for past few years.