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    • Powerarchiver 2021 incorrectly extract tar.xz file

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      Configuration:
      Powerarchiver 2021 20.00.73
      Windows 10 Education 10.0.19042 Build 19042

      When extracting gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz , Powerarchiver wrongly thinks some .exe files have a length of zero:

      98773b3b-65c0-48fa-8cd4-d081b2e0adee-image.png

      Once extracted:

      D:\Temp\Powerarchiver\gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf\bin>dir *.exe Volume in drive D is DATA Volume Serial Number is 0E12-BCA2 Directory of D:\Temp\Powerarchiver\gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf\bin 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,391,599 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-addr2line.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ar.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-as.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,030,119 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,389,293 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++filt.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,027,513 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-cpp.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 4,040,503 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-dwp.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 391,769 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-elfedit.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-g++.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,026,926 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-10.2.1.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ar.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ranlib.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 2,165,533 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-dump.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 2,343,605 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-tool.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 2,450,233 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov.exe 2020-11-20 07:54 PM 9,605,899 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gdb.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,028,997 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gfortran.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,412,943 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gprof.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.gold.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 25,546,567 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-lto-dump.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-nm.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objdump.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ranlib.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-readelf.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,393,083 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-size.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,392,464 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strings.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strip.exe 32 File(s) 67,465,867 bytes 0 Dir(s) 1,002,422,431,744 bytes free

      When the same archive is being extracted from a git bash session (after having installed git 2.30.1 for Windows 64 bit version from git-scm.com), the .exe files are extracted as expected:

      xz -k -d gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz tar xf gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar cd gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf/bin ll *.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1391599 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-addr2line.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1421598 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ar.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 2028927 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-as.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3030119 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1389293 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++filt.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 3027513 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-cpp.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 4040503 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-dwp.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 391769 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-elfedit.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3030119 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-g++.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3026926 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-10.2.1.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ar.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ranlib.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3026926 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 2165533 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-dump.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 2343605 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-tool.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 2450233 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 9605899 Nov 20 19:54 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gdb.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 3028997 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gfortran.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1412943 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gprof.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 4 User 197121 2572182 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 4 User 197121 2572182 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 4550029 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.gold.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 25546567 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-lto-dump.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1404945 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-nm.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1531656 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1991350 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objdump.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1421598 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ranlib.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1163376 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-readelf.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1393083 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-size.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1392464 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strings.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1531656 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strip.exe*

      The same archive file does extract properly under a native Linux Ubuntu 20.04 system, or under Windows 10 using the WSL2 Linux subsystem using xz and tar.

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    • Bugs I found and wanted to share with the team.

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      Hi I recently bought PowerArchiver and found some bugs and issues that I hit testing some of the features out.

      If you are doing a backup and on the compression options screen its default is compression format is PA with no option to change disk spanning. If you change to 7-zip you can change disk spanning. If you change the disk spanning then move back to PA format the field for disk spanning disables but the option stays set to what you changed it to. When you do a backup it will use PA with files spanning but PowerArchiver says that its not a valid format when you open it. If PA can’t really do file spanning then this screen is allowing it.

      I have attached an image where the progress bar is in the middle of the CD/DVD/BD Tools screen.

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      I have a 7-Zip file I created using the backup tools doing an increment backup. It opens and extracts just fine but if you using the Test option PowerArchiver locks up. Link to file: Backup-2021-02-05-20-35-36 TEST LOCKUP.7z

      On any Zip/PA/7-Zip process the pause and cancel buttons do not work. You have to hard kill the entire application to get out.

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    • Does PA supports Intel's zlib?

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      There would be many of us with Intel Processors.

      and they have their own optimized zlib algorithm, which can result in more efficiency if used combined with their hardware processor.

      Reference:
      https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/zlib-compression-whitepaper-copy.pdf

      Can we get the same Functionality Under Hardware Acceleration Feature?

      Zlib is not the only feature that intel has included with their processor, there’s many, which if combined can result in efficient and better compression ratios.

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    • PA Batch Archive post completion error

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      Hi,

      After the batch archiving is complete, and if I click on whitespace of the PA app, I get this error.

      PA Batch.png

      I did check for ongoing process and ensured no archives were corrupt, It seems like activity did complete successfully but the error is shown for no reason, and only after clicking the whitespace.

      Please see if this can be removed.

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    • PA and conflict with Antivirus

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      I’m using the Kaspersky Total Security.

      I have configured PA as exclusion as followed:

      PA Exclusion.png

      and also is set us trusted application

      PA Trusted Application.png

      Scenario:

      My Antivirus likes to scan for everything, and it’s safeguarding behavior is to prevent the access to the file until the file is properly scanned for.

      The issue:

      PA when losses the access to file, it is stuck, consumes Resources, and never completes the process or throws any error

      Recommendation:
      PAStarter should also work as PAMonitor:
      There should be a monitoring process, at least if I’m using queuing feature, that should check for never ending compression processes and terminate them so the queue can be little bit automated.

      Also,
      There should be multiple attempts at retrying if PA loses access to or is denied, instead of having to see process was stuck for longer duration.

      Or, better, save the parameters I used for keeping the files in compression, and automatically restart the whole compression process after termination the same, of same folders and files set, this should happen in case if compression was stuck.

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    • Using the Queue Feature affects Compression Ratio negatively

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      If you use Queue Feature, you are not saving on space, you are just squeezing less.

      Here’s explaination:

      https://youtu.be/XcxG2wxyink

      I did test the same on multiple files, and of different types.

      It does have large difference for each large file you are trying to squeeze.

      Folders with multiple files, just have no benefits if you use Queue Feature

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    • Problems with Color-scheme after upgrade to build 73

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      Hello!
      I am using the portable version of PA2021. After switching from build 58 to 73 I have problems with the color-scheme:
      While 58 behaves like expected and showed everything in light or dark colors according to the settings, 73 always shows the lower part of the window in dark colors, no matter whether I select automatic, light or dark.
      This happens on a clean installation of 73 as well as on an update from build 58. I have attached two images generated on the same machine at the same time with the same settings. The upper shows build 73, the lower 58. Is it a bug or some changed setting I miss?
      Thanks for help!
      A.Borque

      PA2021_73.png PA2021_58.png

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    • Command line

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      Hello,

      PowerArchiver Command Line 7 support file greater than 2 Go ?

      Thanks

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    • PA shows incorrect archive properties

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      If you have tabbed archive browsing(reuse same window for all archive opening)
      and if you open two archives, and right click on older one to view properties it will only show of the recent archive that was opened, on all tabs/archives

      upgraded to 20.0.73

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    • Can I activate PowerArchiver on 2 devices with 1 license?

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      Hi.

      I currently own the PowerArchiver Select - lifetime free upgrades and support for PowerArchiver Toolbox English license.

      This license is active on 1 device. Does the license allow me to activate PowerArchiver on a second device that I own? Or do I need a separate license for that?

      Thank you ! :)

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    • No updates for portable version?

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      Hello!
      While the installable version of PA 2021 has already received two updates and is at version 20.0.73 the portable version still remains at the initially released build 58. Are there plans to update that version, too?
      Thanks for a reply!

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    • PowerArchiver shell extensions possibly crashing windows explorer.exe

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      I’ve been dealing with an intermittent explorer.exe crash for 5-6 years now. It happens randomly and will usually occur multiple times within a single session of an hour or two on my machine when manipulating files through Windows Explorer. explorer.exe is the only thing that ever crashes, so it’s not hardware IMO. I’ve done all hardware diagnostics and RAM is good. I’ve even swapped out motherboards with different brand and even the exact same one and it still crashes. sfc /scannow indicates system files are fine. I’ve done multiple reinstalls of the OS with no positive results. This crashing has happened on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 10 64-bit. It seemed to get more frequent with Windows 10 after upgrading last year. I’ve also been using PowerArchiver throughout that time period (upgrading over time with new releases). I recently disabled all non-Microsoft extensions via ShellExView and saw no crashes for about 10 days, which is really unusual. I turned back them all back on after 10 days and saw another explorer.exe crash within the hour. So I disabled all 32-bit extensions and saw another crash. Following that I disabled all the PowerArchiver shell extensions and haven’t seen a crash after a day of heavy usage manipulating files within Windows Explorer, which doesn’t happen for me. The crash dumps I’ve captured don’t seem to indicate PowerArchiver is involved but I have a hunch it has something do with PowerArchiver shell extensions. The system even feels smoother with the PA extensions disabled. Windows 10 reliability monitor always has the same type of problem:

      Description Faulting Application Path: C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe Problem signature Problem Event Name: BEX64 Application Name: explorer.exe Application Version: 10.0.17134.165 Application Timestamp: 4031a9f8 Fault Module Name: StackHash_e78e Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000 Exception Offset: PCH_8D_FROM_ntdll+0x000000000009AA54 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Data: 0000000000000008 OS Version: 10.0.17134.2.0.0.256.48 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: e78e Additional Information 2: e78e327659b46c9a0c6916396b253cbf Additional Information 3: cebf Additional Information 4: cebf952c5db535ae7880488aafce55d9 Extra information about the problem Bucket ID: 1a57e4e784fbc735c231c68bd88581a9 (1311047270476906921)

      I know this is a very nebulous explanation but is there any way to link this up to PA shell extensions as the cause? I can provide the crash dumps and additional information if necessary.

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    • Bug in Archive Converter

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      When you select “Deflate (.zip, compatible)” as the method, it still converts the archive to a ZIPX format.

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    • UHA support

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      Would like to see uha archives supported compression as well as extraction. I use this all the time and it is a very good compression format

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    • Right-Click Compression

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      In windows 10 you can right-click and select send to and the compressed zipped folder and the zip folder will contain the name of the last selected file.

      Does PowerArchiver have a similar function?

      Tom

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    • Cannot convert archive to .zip, always creates .zipx

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      Converting an archive to .zip (using both the “Deflate (.zip, compatible)” and “Store” compression methods) always creates a .zipx file instead.

      pa-convert-zip-1.jpg
      pa-convert-zip-2.jpg

      Using the “Store” method sometimes creates a .zip file; I have seen it happen just now, but I cannot reproduce it.

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    • patch beam waste of time

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      patchbeam a waste of time never updated with latest version

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    • UI Issue moving between different monitors

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      I have just installed 2021, but seems to have similar issues to 2019. If you move the app between differen monitors (with different resolutions) the app does not automatically adjust accordingly, so on one monitor I have the app is too big for the screen, whereas on another monitor it only takes up a small fraction of the screen.
      This was worse with 2019, where the fonts were totally screwed up, making the app unusable. This seems better in 2021, but still not working properly.

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    • "The specified account already exists" error

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      Hi! I came across an issue when I tried to uninstall PowerArch 2013. I got an error “The specified account already exists” which broke the process. I got the same error when I tried to install the current version, without uninstalling the previous one.
      So I can’t uninstall and I can’t install PowerArchiver. Any suggestions? OS Windows 8.1 x64.

      Dariusz

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    • Self-extracting archive creation too messy!

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      Good morning,
      I have been using all compression programs for over 20 years, I have always found Winrar very easy to use when I create a self-extracting archive, even 7-zip is simple, “right click” and “create self-extracting archive”, because on powerarchiver it must be like this confused ?
      It doesn’t just create the archive, it opens a page where I have to select the file again, what kind of archive, which folder to create it, etc … you should learn from your competitors how to make life easier!

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    Corrupt backup archive. If VirtualStore\Program Files folder is selected.

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    • Luxor
      Luxor Alpha Testers last edited by

      Corrupt backup archive. If VirtualStore\Program Files folder is selected.

      Ran my normal backup script which backed up and tested fine.
      Ran it again and there was a long delay before things seemed to happen. Tested the archive and it was corrupt (first time ever that has happened to me). Lots of CRC Errors.

      Been testing things and I noticed that if I select Overwrite previous file (I don’t usually select that) Then I can run the backup time after time and no error. But If I deselect Overwrite option, then it’s back to the errors again.

      I only have 1 other older script that I could test and it is only 1 folder with a couple of sub-folders and not very large, no error on that one.

      So I made a new backup of a couple of folders, ran it, tested it. Ran it again and tested it and it was fine. Another new backup a couple of folders now with the addition of a few files. ran it and tested it. Ran it again and tested it all was fine.

      Thought that maybe it was just a problem with an old script, so just made a new backup same files and folders as my old one.

      Ran it, tested it all fine. Ran it and tested again. Corrupt archive once again.

      Started to remove files and folders 1 by 1 and ran and tested after each was removed. Same results. It was only after I removed a folder from C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files that I could keep running the backup without errors.

      Edited my old script and removed that folder from it and it works time and again.

      I think I have found a bug.

      Edit: Scratch all that I have obviously spent too long on trying solve this and boobed. When I removed the folder from C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files from my backup I must have checked the Overwrite previous file again.

      Coming back to it now and trying again even with the VirtualStore\Program Files folder removed I am getting a corrupted archive.

      I am wondering now if it is a size of archive problem.
      That will have to wait until tomorrow before I can start testing that.

      Sorry for the misleading info.

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      • spwolf
        spwolf conexware last edited by

        ok so it can not read the backup archive, can you open it manually after sucessful cration>

        anything specific? encryption? settings? etc?

        (if overwrite works, without overwrite it tries to update backup archive)

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        • spwolf
          spwolf conexware last edited by

          size?

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          • Luxor
            Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

            ok so it can not read the backup archive, can you open it manually after sucessful cration>

            The one thing I forgot to try.
            No problem after successful creation but If I try to open it after running it again I get Error: the Password is incorrect.

            anything specific? encryption? settings? etc?

            Nothing special, fairly standard and I have used it a long time with no trouble.

            Overwrite Previous File - No
            Add Time Stamp - Yes
            -D-M-Y
            Use as suffix

            Format: ZIP
            Method: Deflate
            Compression: Maximum
            Backup Type Normal

            Encrypt with password - yes
            Encryption method AES 256-bit

            I turned off encryption to see if that would make a difference.
            It still asked for a password and was still full of errors.
            I also tried Method: Optimized and Backup Type: Ultra

            Size ?

            Total 2,170 files, 113 dirs, 178,531 kB [125,811kB]

            I created a new backup, adding 1 folder at a time between tests.

            Results of this:
            Total 38 files, 5 dirs, 32,501 kB [31,328kB] still working
            Total 60 files, 6 dirs, 33,575 kB [32,018 kB] still working
            Total 67 files, 8 dirs, 36,258 kB [34,618 kB] still working
            Total 80 files, 9 dirs, 84,157 kB [76,157 kB] still working
            Total 105 files, 13 dirs, 86,631 kB [76,734 kB] still working

            Not a great number of files or directories and still working as you can see, so I stopped and created another new backup. This time selecting different folders with more in them.

            Results of this one:
            Total 58 files, 20 dirs, 1,731 kB [1,209 kB] still working.
            Total 86 files, 22 dirs, 31,980 kB [30,415 kB] Fails with errors.

            Not as many files as the first one but more directories. Failed after the second folder was added.

            Another new backup, 1 folder this time but a lot of files as you can see.
            Total 1,062 files, 27 dirs, 52,998 kB [28,771kB] Fails with errors.

            Luxor

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            • spwolf
              spwolf conexware last edited by

              was the new try with encryption or without?

              or do you think it is due to number of folders you added to the list? what if you add one folder with many subfolders?

              or it might be due to name of certain folder?

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              • Luxor
                Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                was the new try with encryption or without?

                With encryption.

                or do you think it is due to number of folders you added to the list? what if you add one folder with many subfolders?

                I was beginning to think that way Spywolf, but as you can see from the results above there was one with 105 files & 13 dirs that worked. One with 86 files & 22 dirs that failed. The last one 1062 files & 27 dirs that failed. So fairly mixed with differing results.

                or it might be due to name of certain folder?

                I really don’t know to be honest.

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                • spwolf
                  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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                  • spwolf
                    spwolf conexware last edited by

                    thanks for checking it out luxur when you have time, would love to get this for beta 2 at least….

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                    • Luxor
                      Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                      Sorry for delay spywolf.

                      Still getting the same errors unfortunately.

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                      • spwolf
                        spwolf conexware last edited by

                        you need to delete old file and try without encryption again.

                        it asks you for password becase it is updating old file, which was encrypted.

                        so you need to try updating non-encrypted backup…?

                        thanks!

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                        • Luxor
                          Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                          New backup same folder structure as original.

                          Settings

                          Overwrite Previous File - No
                          Add Time Stamp - Yes
                          -D-M-Y
                          Use as suffix

                          Format: ZIP
                          Method: Deflate
                          Compression: Maximum
                          Backup Type Normal

                          Encrypt with password - No

                          Ran backup. Extracted Ok.

                          Deleted what I had just extracted and ran the backup again.
                          Tried to extract but no luck, see screen shots 1,2,3,4,5 and 6


                          1 Almost the width of my screen. Clicked Yes


                          2 Too large for my screen. Clicked Yes


                          3 Too large for screen. Clicked Yes


                          4 Asks for password. Typed in password of usual backup.

                          Message: Error the password is incorrect. as in screen shot 5.

                          Tried the password another few times, same message.

                          Hit Cancel then tried my usual password in the box once again, this time it extracted.

                          Screen shot 6 shows the folder contents after extraction.

                          Off now to bang my head against a wall.

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                          • spwolf
                            spwolf conexware last edited by

                            luxor, do not bang your hand off the wall please… me and mili take a hit for you here :-).

                            can you create completly new backup and try it out? same result?

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                            • Luxor
                              Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                              Ok, same folder structure slightly different result.

                              This time when attempting to extract I got the steps in screen shot 1 then as in screen shots 4,5 & 6.

                              No screen shot 2 or 3 this time.

                              Did another new backup.
                              This time only backed up My Documents folder.

                              Size: 1,343 files, 105 dirs, 189,362kb [130,726 kb]

                              Backed up and extracted fine, ran again, extracted fine and again and again.

                              Note that there are no folders included from C:\Users\Username\AppData included in this back up. In all the failed ones there has been.

                              Luxor

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                              • spwolf
                                spwolf conexware last edited by

                                ok, so maybe some specific filenames are casuing this issue… any particular appdata folders?

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                                • spwolf
                                  spwolf conexware last edited by

                                  i think i found it, updating of zip files does not work via shell in certain conditions… reported it, should be fixed soon!

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                                  • Luxor
                                    Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                                    These are the main folders Spywolf

                                    C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\PocoMail
                                    C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\MailWasherPro
                                    C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\profile
                                    C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\FreeCommander
                                    C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\KeePass\

                                    (I’m not putting these spaces in the file names by the way, just when I pasted them in here that is occuring).

                                    Of course most of folders these have many sub-folders.

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                                    • Luxor
                                      Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                                      @spwolf:

                                      i think i found it, updating of zip files does not work via shell in certain conditions… reported it, should be fixed soon!

                                      Excellent, knew you would get there in the end. :p

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                                      • spwolf
                                        spwolf conexware last edited by

                                        send us an email via support form and i will send you an link to test version, if you have time…

                                        thanks

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                                        • Luxor
                                          Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                                          Have done spywolf. No link yet though.
                                          <drums fingers="" impatiently="">;)

                                          Edit: And 2 minutes later I’m sent the link.</drums>

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                                          • Luxor
                                            Luxor Alpha Testers @Luxor last edited by

                                            Well pretty much the same results with this test version.

                                            Created a new backup:
                                            Settings

                                            Overwrite Previous File - No
                                            Add Time Stamp - Yes
                                            -D-M-Y
                                            Use as suffix

                                            Format: ZIP
                                            Method: Deflate
                                            Compression: Maximum
                                            Backup Type Normal

                                            Encrypt with password - No

                                            Ran, extracted. Ran again tried to extract. this time it took me straight to this screen asking for my password.
                                            You can see in the screen shot just below where it says “Current File” that it is going to be full of errors anyway as it’s all strange symbols.

                                            Entered a password any way.
                                            Message: Error the password is incorrect.
                                            Hit cancel, used my normal password again and it extracted but result just like screen shot 6 in the previous post.

                                            Made another new backup this time encrypted with a password. Same result.

                                            Even though I had set a password I still got the Message: Error the password is incorrect.
                                            Hit cancel, retried password and it extracted to the same corrupt files.

                                            Luxor.
                                            attachment_p_17887_0_assoonasextract.png

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                                            • spwolf
                                              spwolf conexware last edited by

                                              mili sent you b1 by mistake, thats not new version :-)

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                                              • Luxor
                                                Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                                                LOL that explains that then.

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                                                • spwolf
                                                  spwolf conexware last edited by

                                                  sorry, we are working on fixing last of the bugs first…

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                                                  • spwolf
                                                    spwolf conexware last edited by

                                                    Please try this interim version:
                                                    http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/alpha115/powarc1150b1new.exe

                                                    it should solve those issues, several bugs were fixed, we still have to test few things with it…

                                                    thanks

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                                                    • Luxor
                                                      Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                                                      Problem sorted with this build spywolf.
                                                      Working fine with backups created with and without password. :)

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                                                      • spwolf
                                                        spwolf conexware last edited by

                                                        there will be more updates for that version during the day…

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                                                        • spwolf
                                                          spwolf conexware last edited by

                                                          Please check your issue with latest 11.50.30 release:
                                                          http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2010/powarc1150b1.exe

                                                          and let us know if this works better now.

                                                          thanks!

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                                                          • Luxor
                                                            Luxor Alpha Testers @spwolf last edited by

                                                            and let us know if this works better now.

                                                            Looks to me to be the same than it was in build 11.50.27.
                                                            Should I be noticing any difference in 11.50.30 ?

                                                            Luxor

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                                                              spwolf conexware @Luxor last edited by

                                                              @Luxor:

                                                              Looks to me to be the same than it was in build 11.50.27.
                                                              Should I be noticing any difference in 11.50.30 ?

                                                              Luxor

                                                              if everything works fine, then cool :-)

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