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.
How can they compress this strong?
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as an example, download this file:
http://www.colorpilot.com/chm2pdfstore/Chm2PdfPilot.exethen extract it where you like.
then compress it to ANY archive type PowerArchiver offers the opportunity to, at the strongest ratio.the compressed file will always be bigger than the original exe.
how can that be? I might think they’re using an even stronger compression tool!
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Can you tried 7-ZIP format and Ultra compression with Solid option?
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Can you tried 7-ZIP format and Ultra compression with Solid option?
yes, I did…that’s why I posted…
the exe file you download is 1.881KB, if you decompress it then 7-zip it (with the options you said…which, anyway, are my standard), you get a 2.068KB-big archive…
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[old image removed] (to save space)
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btw…compressing to a CAB does slightly better…but always 2.037KB vs 1.881KB only
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@NTFS:
I can confirm this!
See attached image…
confirmed…as your image lets see, the exe is an SFX 7-Zip archive…
they used 7-Zip…so, how come we can’t compress as strongly using 7Z within PA?
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Confirmed here as well. They must have tweaked the compression options for 7-zip.
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Confirmed here as well. They must have tweaked the compression options for 7-zip.
Yes, you can use “stronger” 7zip compression which uses larger dictionary, however in most of the cases it will not lower the compression. PowerArchiver uses 32 MB dictionary with Ultra settings which will take up 400 MB of your RAM, 7zip allows the use of up to 192 MB of memory, taking up to 1.9 GB of RAM…
I personally tested it with quite few things and never noticed anything but small difference with larger dictionaries than 32 MB…
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I personally tested it with quite few things and never noticed anything but small difference with larger dictionaries than 32 MB…
This must be one of those cases where the dictionary size does make a difference. That’s why I put the request for more 7-Zip options in the wishlist. :)
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Yes, you can use “stronger” 7zip compression which uses larger dictionary, however in most of the cases it will not lower the compression. PowerArchiver uses 32 MB dictionary with Ultra settings which will take up 400 MB of your RAM, 7zip allows the use of up to 192 MB of memory, taking up to 1.9 GB of RAM…
I personally tested it with quite few things and never noticed anything but small difference with larger dictionaries than 32 MB…
I think you should let your users decide about the amount of memory to set the dictionary to…as noticed, some times that does make a differencd in files final size.
I’ve got a testing pc with 4GB of RAM…so I might very well have 1.9GB of those taken for compressing… ;)
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I think you should let your users decide about the amount of memory to set the dictionary to…as noticed, some times that does make a differencd in files final size.
I’ve got a testing pc with 4GB of RAM…so I might very well have 1.9GB of those taken for compressing… ;)
I don’t have “4GB of RAM” but I agree with you anyway. ;)
Thanks!
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Good, then everyone is agreeable. :)
