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    • Missing virtual driver in Patchbeam

      pirrbe

      PA 2023 22.00.08
      Long time no seeing. So I start up the new year with a first problem : the virtual driver cannot be installed. Reason : it is missing in the Fast Ring PatchBeam Update Service…
      Virtual driver PA 2023-01-28 152607.png
      It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
      Can I have a link or can it be fixed. Thank you. CU later

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    • PA 21.00.18 testing via context menu causes extraction of files

      D

      When the function for testing archives is invoked via the shell context menu (PowerArchiver > Test) then all the files in the archive get extracted to the current folder.

      The test dialog reports as many errors as there are files in the archive but it fails to give any hint as to which files are supposed to be erroneous or what the nature of the problem might be. Comparing the extracted files to the originals shows no differences at all.

      The .7z in question was produced with maximised compression settings in 7zip (taking forever but resulting in smaller archives than .7z produced by PowerArchiver with maximised settings). Therefore I wanted to see whether PowerArchiver can at least test .7z that it produced itself. Hence I had PowerArchiver convert a .pa with the same contents to .7z. There weren’t any errors reported but the resulting .7z contained fewer than half of the files contained in the .pa (137 of 366), so I scratched that test.

      Performance is abysmal when testing via the context menu (e.g. almost 2 minutes for testing a .7z that 7zip tests in 4 seconds), but that is most likely due to the fact that the extracted files are written to disk. Testing the same .7z in the PowerArchiver GUI takes only 8 seconds but causes the mysterious appearance of a UAC dialog, as reported elsewhere.

      The testing function is vital because PowerArchiver has a history of producing archives that it cannot unpack without errors or that do not conform to the respective file format standards (e.g. ZIP) so that other programs report them as erroneous.

      The point of creating archives is that the files in them will most likely have to be extracted at some point. If the extraction cannot be guaranteed to produce correct results then the whole program is absolutely pointless. Actually, worse than pointless - it causes data loss and hence damage.

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    • Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts

      Brian Gregory

      In PowerArchiver 2023 22.00.06 configuration, the option labelled “Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts” seems to be redundant.

      I am only allowed to change this option when PA Starter is disabled, and then it seems to be ignored.

      When I enable PA Starter this option is forced to the enabled state.

      I think it’d be good to remove “Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts” completely. I’ve always found it confusing having both options.

      Added later: However i don’t particularly want to use queue but I do like having the PAStarter icon in my tray area.

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    • Testing .pa archives

      PA_Fan

      W10 Pro 22H2 - 64 -bit

      PA 22.00.06 (PA 2023)

      It has been the case with previous versions of PowerArchiver, but I had hoped that the latest might behave differently. Not so, I’m afraid.

      I have, for various obscure reasons, created a few .pa archives, mainly in the hope that they will save me some more space. From time to time, I use the “Test” option to check that important archives are OK and uncorrupted.

      With every .pa archive I’ve tested, the process runs through OK but then reports that there are errors. This is always the number of files in the archive e.g. if 11 files, then 11 errors reported.

      In the .pa, I can:-

      preview the files (usually PDF) extract some or all files and look at or use them convert the .pa to a .zip or .zipx archive, which then works fine and tests without errors

      Is it the case that the Test routine isn’t designed for .pa archives, or is there another reason? Although the .pa seems to function properly, despite the test reporting errors, I would like to be sure that every .pa is OK and not “broken”.

      Some of the .pas are quite old and produced with earlier PA versions (they are truly “archives”). If I extract all the files in the old .pa, create a new, fresh .pa and add back the files to that, then test the new, no errors (at least in the .pa I’ve tried this on) are reported. This would suggest a mismatch between old .pas and newer versions of PA itself.

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

      Brian Gregory

      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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    • Small UI / Theme bug in 2023

      Z

      Clipboard02.jpg

      See the, supposedly, blank space where the green box is? It’s like that in Modern Light theme too. I can toggle it, but it’s missing text or shouldn’t be there I guess?

      Thanks :)

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    • PowerArchiver and PACL for macOS

      spwolf

      Dear @Alpha-Testers and all of our users,

      time has come for testing of PowerArchiver and PACL for macOS.
      Please let us know here if you have Mac and can test latest builds.

      Features implemented:
      PowerArchiver 2020 - tabbing, opening, extracting, adding, testing, favorite folders, support for multiple languages, opening via Finder, explorer mode, installer.
      PACL 10 - support for most formats and features in Windows version.

      Upcoming: Tools such as archive converter, batch zip, multi-extract.

      To start testing, please sign up here in this thread, and we will send you latest build.

      thank you!

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    • Functions in Windows 11 context menu no longer work after last Windows Update

      T

      For some reason, the PowerArchiver functions in the Windows 11 context menu no longer work after the last Windows Update. Only the functions in the classic context menu function as they should.

      I’ve tried uninstalling PowerArchiver and using RevoUninstaller to remove all bits and pieces that were left behind and did a clean install of PowerArchiver, it didn’t fix the issue. Other items in the Windows 11 context menu work.

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    Creation of large spanned archives is slow

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      dragon57 last edited by

      Hmm, different results, but definitely not optimal. After six minutes or so, PA created a 17GB tmp file (from compressing 30GB of source files). The progress bar was at 100% and PA continued to do something for 10 minutes or so. I then saw a z01 file appear in the destination directory (I specified to split the archive into DVD sized chunks). It continued to thrash for another 10 minutes, then a z02 file appeared. I finally canceled the operation as I had to shutdown the machine.

      If this is as designed, more optimization is needed. For example, Winzip creates the z01, z02 files as the compression operation proceeds and you don’t need the intermediate tmp file (which basically requires you to have double the space) plus Winzip effectively does the operation in half the time since it doesn’t create the tmp file, then split up into the size specified in the options panel.

      When creating a single zip file, I was able to create a zip from the same 30GB source with no problem (took about 6 1/2 minutes). I tried writing directly into the zip and not selecting that option and had no problems.

      Hopefully this makes sense. Let me know if you need more info or want me to run more tests.

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      • spwolf
        spwolf conexware last edited by

        thats completly different issue than original one, i noticed it was doing that, it was workaround as 2 days ago multivolumes were not working at all.

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          dragon57 @spwolf last edited by

          @spwolf:

          thats completly different issue than original one, i noticed it was doing that, it was workaround as 2 days ago multivolumes were not working at all.

          Agreed. At least it is making multi-volumes now, just not very optimally :).

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          • spwolf
            spwolf conexware @dragon57 last edited by

            @dragon57:

            Agreed. At least it is making multi-volumes now, just not very optimally :).

            especially on i7, where normal deflate is blazing through :-)

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            • spwolf
              spwolf conexware last edited by

              move it to new thread, closing this one, thanks!

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              • spwolf
                spwolf conexware last edited by

                err, closing old one :)

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                • ivan
                  ivan conexware last edited by

                  We will check progressbar issues, but currently the way spanned archives are created will not be changed in 11.50 for sure - they are generated in two steps - first in temp folder a complete zip is created and then that zip is spanned.

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                    dragon57 last edited by

                    If the splitting wasn’t so slow, this may be tolerable, even with the double disk space issue, but Winzip, even single threaded, makes split zip’s much faster using the same source files as the new PA does, even with the benefit of an i7 cpu on the front end.

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                    • spwolf
                      spwolf conexware last edited by

                      splitting itself is not slow, it is basically double action which is why it is slower than single action… its limited by the speed of hdd.

                      if it was done at once it would be much faster of course.

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                      • spwolf
                        spwolf conexware last edited by

                        unfortunatly right now we can cry about it and make it prettier :).

                        Question is how much of MV are you using vs single archive to see how much the problem affects you.

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                        • spwolf
                          spwolf conexware last edited by

                          we found some situations where there would be double the copying, and we made sure that does not happen now.

                          so it is still compressing and then splitting, but it might be faster for you now.

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