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.
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 ….
I think only WinZip can unpack those at the moment … -
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…
