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    MSI release?
    J

    I’m looking forward to deploying PowerArchiver 2023 to my users. Can you tell us when the MSI will be available for download and distribution?

    Thanks.

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    Missing Icons
    LuxorL

    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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    powerarc_2023-09-18_17-01-05.png

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    Security vulnerabilities in 7zip / Update for PowerArchiver and PACL libraries?
    BigMikeB

    Hi there,

    there were some security issues fixed in 7zip:
    https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1165/
    https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1164/

    As it seems, that PowerArchiver and PACL use the 7zip libraries, could you please update them to the latest version?

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    Virtual Drive
    E

    Hi,

    From where I get PAVD2023.EXE? PowerArchiver 2023 tries to open it.
    But it seems, it tries to download PAVD2021.EXE.

    Thanks

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    Better ZPAQ support
    W

    I noticed that the version of ZPAQ used is older than the latest released 7.15 https://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html also there seems to be a newer fork that adds several features https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz

    It would be useful to implement this latest version (it also maintains the same syntax and behavior as the latest official release if used the -715 flag) and add when opening a zpaq file a choice of the version of the files to show (e.g. as dummy folders represented the various versions present). Since any previous changes are stored with this format, it is possible to extract a snapshot of a certain date/version.

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    Bug with "Encrypt Archive" action
    W

    If I open a password-protected zipper file (created with WinRAR but I think that’s irrelevant), open it with PowerArchiver and run “Remove Encryption” on the same file, then reopen it and add a password with “Encrypt Archive,” the resulting archive will be protected with the old ZipCrypto algorithm and not AES as indicated.
    (this can be verified, for example, by trying to open the archive files with Windows Explorer, which does not support the AES algorithm)

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    PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files
    Brian GregoryB

    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!
    b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files.

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    PA 2010 compression bug?

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    • D
      dragon57
      last edited by

      I have installed the beta and tried to compress a directory containing the files for one of my VMware virtual machines (approximately 30GB worth of files).

      The compression seems to work great. PA drives my quad core, hyperthreaded machine to the max (which is great). At the end of the process, there is no zip file in the destination directory. When I try to compress smaller directories/files, everything seems to work as expected.

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      • spwolfS
        spwolf conexware
        last edited by

        what are the settings used? Maybe problem with temp folder space?

        How much smaller are smaller archives?

        thanks!

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          dragon57
          last edited by

          I have tried different settings as well as the right-click “Compress to…” option, so I don’t think that is the problem. I have set my temp directory to my E: drive which has 1.33TB of free space.

          I tried zipping a file which was about 3.5GB in size with no problem.

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          • spwolfS
            spwolf conexware
            last edited by

            i need one of the settings that didnt work and how you got there (main PA, shell?)… how much free space is on drive that hosts those big files and how much space is on destination drive…

            all are ntfs drives, right?

            many, many possible options which is why i have to have info.

            thanks!

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              dragon57
              last edited by

              I’ll try to provide all the info you need.

              This is a Core i7 system w/12GB of ram running Vista 64.

              The source and target drive was the same, my E: drive which has around 1.33TB free and is formatted as NTFS. I used the shell extension. I tried using the ‘Compress to “filename.zip”’ option and the ‘Compress With Options’ choice. When trying the …with options choice, I tried splitting the output file in DVD sized chunks (no other defaults changed).

              I also just found another problem. I have another set of split zip files that Winzip and PA 2009 unzip with no problems. This set of files have a zip, z01, z02, z03 and z04 file in the set. PA 2010 gives a crc error as it is unzipping (seems to be around 10-15% into the uncompression process).

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              • spwolfS
                spwolf conexware
                last edited by

                did you try without the spanning?

                try with these options please:

                1. Start Main PA
                2. create new archive where you want
                3. Options for creation
                Method: Deflate
                Write directly into zip
                No spanning in options Tab

                does that work? And we will go from there… we have i7 as well where we tested everything… quick eh? :-)

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                  dragon57
                  last edited by

                  I tried the steps outlines. During the archive creation process, I saw a temp file created in the destination directory. Everything seemed to be progressing normally until it reached the end. At that time, the temp file disappeared and PA showed no files in the archive when looking at the gui.

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                  • spwolfS
                    spwolf conexware
                    last edited by

                    thanks, i am trying it myself and it seems it is being little rude to us at aroung 66 GB we test with :-).

                    good find!

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                      dragon57
                      last edited by

                      Cool! I am glad it isn’t just me :)

                      Thanks for the quick responses and working with me!

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                      • ivanI
                        ivan conexware
                        last edited by

                        Thanks,

                        there were issues with both - creating and extracting large ZIP archives (over 4 GB). Should be fixed in next beta.

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                        • skypxS
                          skypx @ivan
                          last edited by

                          I really don’t want to ask, (I’m not being inpatient just curious) but will a new beta be released today. I just reinstalled Vista and I’m torn between installing PA2009 or a newer beta of PA2010. Thanks. :)

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                          T-Force DDR4 3600 32GB
                          Samsung 970 EVO 2TB
                          GTX 3080ti
                          Win10 x64

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                          • spwolfS
                            spwolf conexware
                            last edited by

                            please check with official beta 1, and let us know if this has been fixed… thank you!

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