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PA2023 Win10, (same problem with older releases but never reported)
PA Soft is installed on partition D. (exclusive for installed progs)
Then I created on my partition G: the folders as configured in PA Settings ‘Folders’.0fcf1b09-1b91-4b74-b250-f8cf908a3348-Ashampoo_Snap_maandag 20 maart 2023_11h54m34s.png
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The problem : Any activity on PA is saved in these folders…
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I am still using Powerarchiver 2022 and it does not show pdf markups in the preview. Is there a setting to get version 2022 to show pdf markups in the preview? If not, does this work in version 2023?
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The question that I have about PA archives is what happens if say ConeXware, as a company, dies in the future? What happens to any PA files that are created today? Can these files be decompressed with a copy of a PowerArchiver that can no longer phone home to the mothership thus can’t be registered or activated?
I mean, I can understand that new PA files wouldn’t be able to be created if the program isn’t registered but what about an un-registered copy because well, the question that I posed above?
It’s questions like this that make me not want to store anything really valuable in PA files out of fear that I, at some point in the future, might lose access to said data inside those files. OK, 7ZIP might not be able to compress as heavily as PA but at least it’s open source and any 7ZIP files will still be able to be read and decompressed ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.
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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.
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Is this a known problem? Is there a fix coming? This is a primary reason I buy PA.
I’ve tried both methods I know to extract multiple zips at the same time. 1) Multi Extract feature in the GUI. 2) In Windows File Explorer, select multiple zips, right click, use PA context menu to Extract or Extract To…
Is there a setting I missed? Or maybe it really is processing in parallel, but I can’t detect it? Nothing tells me in the Processes in Task Manager that multiple PA extracts are running. And my CPU, memory and disk resources do not look like a lot of extracts are running.
I’m using PA 2022 Standard version 21.00.18 on Windows 11 Pro version 10.0.22621 Build 22621.
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In the latest version of PA, on W11 (latest build/SP) when you try to use the first level context menu - NOTHING HAPPENS (particularly when you do this from Downloads or Documents folders) - however I noticed that it DOES WORK when you use the context menu from the Desktop. Going to the second level context menu does work however.
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Is the version Preview 2023 also considered to be tested by the testteam ? In the past we got messages in the forum for testing out version x.x, to be downloaded by fastring, or I missed the one for 2023. (I discovered 2023 on the official web…)
CU, Pirrbe.
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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 :-)
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Hi there, been a user since 13 years now and in past whenever I had a problem or question I could email, however since 3 weeks it seems like everybody is dead?
Anyway, as kind of a last resort, I post this email a 4th time but in this forum instead now, in the hope for help:
"This is the 3rd time I am emailing you guys as I am missing a working code for the preview of Power Archiver 2023Can you please help me? I am a 13 years lasting customer of yours, and I am shocked thatr for whatever reason my support tickets are ignored now, why?
thanks in advance!
All the best!
Joerg" -
Re: Explorer.exe Crash on right click
This appears to be happening again with the Power Archiver 2022 shell extensions.
When I have Use Explorer Shell Extensions enabled in Power Archiver Configuration and right-click on c:\Users\username\Start Menu, (hidden Junction file), File Explorer crashes.
I have version 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit installed in Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1826).
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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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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.
Files with 0kb
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I have an evaluation copy of PawerArchiver. I have some .zip files with compressed .xls files within. When I extract them, they appear to uncompress, but the resulting files have no data and no size (0kb).
When I try Winzip or WinRAR, they say that the compression method is unknown. I have had the same problem with several files recently. All have been emailed to me by different people.
Any help appreciated.
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Welcome to PowerArchiver forums!
Thank you for evaluating PowerArchiver.
it seems that those zip archives are corrupted. This can happen if archive is delivered via e-mail. What is the size of .zip file?
also, it may be encrypted with some unsupported algorithm.
try redownloading it.thanks,
Serhiy
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Thanks Serhiy.
The files range in size from a few hundred KB to 10MB. I have tried downloading the file from the email, with no luck. I will try talking to my ISP.
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in some cases PowerArchiver Repair feature may help. You are welcome to try…
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Another possibility is that they were created using WinZip 11 - and so not actually using the ZIP format, but ppmd ….
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Thanks TBGBe,
This is exactly right. I downloaded an evaluation of WinZip 11 and this solved the problem.
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Another possibility is that they were created using WinZip 11 - and so not actually using the ZIP format, but ppmd ….
I think only WinZip can unpack those at the moment …Cripes! You mean that the zip file specification does not contain information an unpacker can use to figure out that it cannot handle the format so it can tell the user a nice informative message?
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Cripes! You mean that the zip file specification does not contain information an unpacker can use to figure out that it cannot handle the format so it can tell the user a nice informative message?
you mean Cripes! 2 companies are extending format on their own and now ZIP can mean anything… Currently “specification” has deflate, deflate64, ppmd (1,2), bz2 (1,2), lzma, and 2 different AES implementations.
So seeing an “zip” format, really does not mean much anymore. I can understand addition of AES, but everything else is just tacked on to make it different.
It is annoying me greatly but of course, two can play the game <evil grin=“” inserted=“”>.</evil>
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you mean Cripes! 2 companies are extending format on their own and now ZIP can mean anything… Currently “specification” has deflate, deflate64, ppmd (1,2), bz2 (1,2), lzma, and 2 different AES implementations.
I know nothing about the zip specification - I just figured that there would be some algorithm ID or signature field in the zip header that would let programs know what they should use to decompress the contained file. And if the signature was unknown to a program, it could indicate that to the user in an error message.
If that doesn’t exist or is unreliable, then certainly there’s not much that PA can do about it. But it’s still a little disappointing, especially as the zip format has been extended more than once so you’d think that this issue might have been given some thought by whoever was doing the extending.
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I know nothing about the zip specification - I just figured that there would be some algorithm ID or signature field in the zip header that would let programs know what they should use to decompress the contained file. And if the signature was unknown to a program, it could indicate that to the user in an error message.
If that doesn’t exist or is unreliable, then certainly there’s not much that PA can do about it. But it’s still a little disappointing, especially as the zip format has been extended more than once so you’d think that this issue might have been given some thought by whoever was doing the extending.
well problem is that you need to program extensions if you want them to be recognized.
and then what to say - for instance, would someone at WinZip write “download latest PowerArchiver to view this file”?
It is not an simple question, I just dont like how zip today has nothing to do with .zip just 2 years ago.
Imagine an outcry if MS called their new office format .doc so all the people with older software would end up confused on why cant they open it…
