Copied the Take Command shortcut, changed Target to be wt.exe -p “Take Command” and saved it. Right-clicked to get to properties and Explorer crashed. (wt.exe is the Microsoft Terminal program, which I have installed from the Microsoft Store.)
The Target path had changed to: C:\Users{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe -p “Take Command”
Created a new shortcut in a Start Menu folder and set the command line to the same, and it crashed the same.
Created a new shortcut and set the command line to mspaint.exe (also a Windows Store app) and Explorer crashed on right-click on the shortcut.
It appears PowerArchiver shell extensions doesn’t handle Windows Store apps in shortcuts properly. Perhaps it needs better defensive coding around checking the Target of shortcuts, or just ignoring shortcuts altogether.
Running PA 22.00.11 on Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.6584
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).
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?
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.
PowerArchiver 2009 11.03 - Happy Thanksgiving!
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Here is “beta” release for you to enjoy over the holidays. Rest of the languages will be posted in official release on Monday. Virtual Drive will be updated Monday as well to reflect changes in whatsnew below… Thanks for being our loyal fans :D
Version 11.03 [December/2008]
Maintenance release.Improvements:
- PowerArchiver now remembers password for shell extract session (multiple files).
- Backup now creates new folders if needed to create destination backup.
- Expanded extract button MRU to 10, added shortcuts and icons.
- Mount/Unmount option added in PA Starter main menu.
- Added ALT+D shortcut to switch focus between treeview and filelist.
- Added F6 shortcut to focus on address bar.
- Added GO button in address bar.
- Improved tabbing between PowerArchiver windows.
- Increased border size of the windows (preview, etc) so they can be dragged easily.
- Improvements in shortcuts in main PowerArchiver and shell extensions.
- More tips/hints added.
- Various minor translation updates.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed Bug #924: Canceling during zip load crashes PA.
- Fixed Bug #910: Backup does not save zip spans properly.
- Fixed Bug #927: Testing archive via shell opens folder.
- Fixed Bug #930: Extracting RAR archives with CRC error cancels extraction.
- Fixed Bug #929: Converting to same format exits convert tool.
- Fixed Bug #928: Can not encrypt/convert tar.gz to zip aes.
- Fixed Bug #078: Adding to folders/paths does not work in tar,bh, cab, lha.
- Fixed Bug #925: Can not create 7z if Optimized or Store is used.
- Fixed Bug #919: SFX Wizard does not create SFX’s in specific situations.
- Fixed Bug #916: Virtual Drive always disabled in Starter.
- Fixed Bug #889: Nvidia drivers SFX detection does not work in 64bit shell.
- Fixed Bug #918: Plugin issues with progress bar.
- Fixed Bug #957: Extract shell extensions unicode issues.
- Fixed Bug #907: First archive does not extract properly if wrong password session saved.
You can download it via web update (English Only).