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.
Creation of large spanned archives is slow
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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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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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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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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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move it to new thread, closing this one, thanks!
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err, closing old one :)
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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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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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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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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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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.
