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.
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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PA 22.00.09
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PA 22.00.09 shows a nag screen, when I try to open some setting windows. I have already PA 2023 Toolbox and PA shows, that it’s licensed in the info dialog.
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PA 22.00.09
Some labels in the help toolbar are not translated:
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I’m looking forward to deploying PowerArchiver 2023 to my users. Can you tell us when the MSI will be available for download and distribution?
Thanks.
Hi there,
there were some security issues fixed in 7zip:
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1165/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1164/
As it seems, that PowerArchiver and PACL use the 7zip libraries, could you please update them to the latest version?
Hi,
From where I get PAVD2023.EXE? PowerArchiver 2023 tries to open it.
But it seems, it tries to download PAVD2021.EXE.
Thanks
I noticed that the version of ZPAQ used is older than the latest released 7.15 https://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html also there seems to be a newer fork that adds several features https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz
It would be useful to implement this latest version (it also maintains the same syntax and behavior as the latest official release if used the -715 flag) and add when opening a zpaq file a choice of the version of the files to show (e.g. as dummy folders represented the various versions present). Since any previous changes are stored with this format, it is possible to extract a snapshot of a certain date/version.
PowerArchiver 2008
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When will PowerArchiver 2008 be available?
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I can say right now that PA 2008 will probably never see the light.
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Good one :D
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I don’t want to sound funny and don’t take this the wrong way but it sounds as though there might not be another powerarchiver version from your answer.
I know this is not the case but as you didn’t state the name of the next release or comfirm a next realease it makes people who don’t know the product development off buying the produvct if they don’t know another release is coming.
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After 7 years of 6-7 releases per year, does anyone truly expect there not to be next version of PowerArchiver? :-).
as to the PA 2008, I think that was big hint just there.
:P
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as to the PA 2008, I think that was big hint just there.
I must confess to being a bit confused, too. Before you said that “PA 2008 will probably never see the light”. Does this mean you will simply be releasing updates to PA 2007, going in a different direction for the name of the next major release (ie., PA 11 instead of PA 2008) or something else that I’m missing?
Not that any of this really matters, I’m just feeling confused.
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I must confess to being a bit confused, too. Before you said that “PA 2008 will probably never see the light”. Does this mean you will simply be releasing updates to PA 2007, going in a different direction for the name of the next major release (ie., PA 11 instead of PA 2008) or something else that I’m missing?
Not that any of this really matters, I’m just feeling confused.
groovy baby!
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I think spwolf needs a vacation.
Through all his humor, if I was a betting man, I would bet that we would be seeing 2008 in the not to distant future.
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I think spwolf needs a vacation.
Through all his humor, if I was a betting man, I would bet that we would be seeing 2008 in the not to distant future.
noooo! not 2008. Ah. Shouldnt be THAT hard to understand, really.
PA 2002
PA 2003
PA 2004
PA 2006
PA 2007
PA 200x?And yes, I need nice, long vacation, once this is released and everything is working well… hopefully in time for Euro 2008.
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don’t you mean Euro 2009?
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don’t you mean Euro 2009?
:-)
me going too… so this better be out and ready and doing wonderfully well :-).
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So the next version is just going to be called PowerArchiver then ;)