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.
Shell extensions not working, solution: reinstall and reboot.
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if you have a spanned zip archive ending in a letter like e.g tersta and then next one terstb the problem sayes there is an error and locks up so you have to crash powerarchiver.
when will a fix be avaliable. in teh archives are more spanned zips which need to be extracted before i can extract them, this time the spanned zips insode the archives have 001 when will a fix be avaliable as this is an urgent problem
the archives with 001 etc can not be extracted via powerarchivers shell extensions but can be opened and installed which is not a problem but why is shell extensuiosn not working the files are.
attached is the screen shot i get when trying to extract these files via the shell extensions. i have windows 2000
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When I right click to use the feature extract to directory
I get the pop up message saying unspecified error
Then I get a blank dialogue box saying
corelbutton1 - pause - cancelbutt
The PA program is great, but if the small bug can be fixed, it will be better.
Thank You
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you need uninstall PA 2009 reboot your computer and install it again, and reboot again :-).
It seems as if PowerArchiver dll’s are not properly registered on your computer.
thanks!
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can you please write exact filenames that are creating the issue so we can take an look? Hard to understand from the post… thank you!
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I have the same problem with spanned rar archives, if I R-Click on the first archive and select (extract to…) I get an (unspecified error) then the same popup as illustrated above, if I click on corelbutton it shrinks to the task bar If I click cancel another box opens with Archive interrupted continue?, If I select YES I get into an eternal loop if select NO power archiver ends. But if I open power Archiver from it’s icon I can search for the first rar file and every thing works OK. I am using PA 11.03.04 with Vista 32
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duckndive - i believe thats the problem due to not properly registered dll’s with PowerArchiver.
Did you reboot your computryer after installation? If not, try doing it now.
If it still does not work:
1. uninstall PA
2. Reboot PC
3. Install PA againthat should make sure it is installed properly.
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david is probably having the same issue…
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We changed in 11.03 the way our installation works, and are not allowing it to crash explorer.exe in order to install PA (which is what Windows Installer does by default), because we found out that sometimes, due to some unspecified Vista bug, Explorer.exe would not restart, so newbie users would not know what happened - they would only see black screen and didnt know how to restart explorer.exe manually.
I am seeing same thing in Windows 7 right now so not sure how will that get solved as it is Microsoft issue (Restart Manager and Explorer.exe).
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spwolf- thanks for your quick reply
I have had PA installed now for several month’s, so restart was not one of the problems, I will as you suggest uninstall and re-install and report the results. Has Kaspersky Internet Security any relation to this problem, I get a lot of pop-ups telling me how Kaspersky is treating various files and DLL’s and what category they represent.
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let us know what happens… does it only happen when you try to extract rar files, or anything you do with shell extensions?
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you reproduce it using my steps ibn my first post.
though one thought came to mind the spanning of these archives causes powerarchiver problems coulsd it be the engine pa uses.
Are these spanned archives actually spanned archives as sorry to mention it winzip can not touch them either but pa can of sorts if you only open they from within pa
The error produced in future shouls show an error number so you can pinpoint the problem area of the fault.
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i need specific filenames from you david, or i cant try to reproduce it… also does anything else in shell work for you?
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All OK now, uninstalled and re-installed after a restart, works perfectly, had one problem with PA Starter, which would not close down for the uninstall, had to go to task manager and force it to stop.
Thanks for all the support spwolf, ( I always feel uncomfortable thanking with any feeling to a forum profile).:(
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All OK now, uninstalled and re-installed after a restart, works perfectly, had one problem with PA Starter, which would not close down for the uninstall, had to go to task manager and force it to stop.
Thanks for all the support spwolf, ( I always feel uncomfortable thanking with any feeling to a forum profile).:(
Richard:Dnp, drazen :-)
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Thank you Drazen
Hvala -
if you have a spanned zip archive ending in a letter like e.g tersta and then next one terstb the problem sayes there is an error and locks up so you have to crash powerarchiver.
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you reproduce it using my steps in my first post.Well, I don’t have any spanned archives using that naming method.
If I assume they are spanned zips, how are they named
a) tersta.zip; terstb.zip etc
b) tersta.001; terstb.002 etc
b) tersta.zip.001; terstb.zip.002 etcor what?
@davidsplash:… in teh archives are more spanned zips which need to be extracted before i can extract them, this time the spanned zips insode the archives have 001 …
Actually, are you sure the ‘a’, ‘b’ … files are spanned zips and not just split files (using e.g. HJSPLIT or similar)?
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well not sure if they are split files but split files ca made with HJSPLIT can not be opened by pa so i assume they are not. iF they are how comes powerarchiver lists them as archives when other compression programs don’t
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nema grešaka:cool:
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The same results happened as my spanned archive posting the zip file in question is 134mb and when i try to extract it i get an yun specified error message
so i ran a test on the zip file from within powerarchiver and obtained these results
Done. – 25/01/2009 14:34
There were no errors in the archive: TEST.zipThe file in the archive are a setup, txt file, windows.link file
i’m using windows 2000
they can be extracted only from the main powerarchiver windows indicating a shell extension bug
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i already wrote what the solution is… you need to reinstall PA and reboot your computer.
none of your shell extensions will work until you do that.
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seems to be fixed for shell extensions on zip archives using extract to here option. though i stress too many people have had this fault. So is there going to be safe guards against this happening in the future?
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:-)
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safeguard would be that when it tells you to restart, it means it.
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true but it didn’t not even on uninstalling and reinstalling did it mention this. So this needs to be rectified.
Also even after a restart this happened only after i decided to unistall and restart delete all reg entries of powerarchiver restart and then install restart did it work. what does that say.
