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PA2023 Win10, (same problem with older releases but never reported)
PA Soft is installed on partition D. (exclusive for installed progs)
Then I created on my partition G: the folders as configured in PA Settings ‘Folders’.0fcf1b09-1b91-4b74-b250-f8cf908a3348-Ashampoo_Snap_maandag 20 maart 2023_11h54m34s.png
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The problem : Any activity on PA is saved in these folders…
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I am still using Powerarchiver 2022 and it does not show pdf markups in the preview. Is there a setting to get version 2022 to show pdf markups in the preview? If not, does this work in version 2023?
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The question that I have about PA archives is what happens if say ConeXware, as a company, dies in the future? What happens to any PA files that are created today? Can these files be decompressed with a copy of a PowerArchiver that can no longer phone home to the mothership thus can’t be registered or activated?
I mean, I can understand that new PA files wouldn’t be able to be created if the program isn’t registered but what about an un-registered copy because well, the question that I posed above?
It’s questions like this that make me not want to store anything really valuable in PA files out of fear that I, at some point in the future, might lose access to said data inside those files. OK, 7ZIP might not be able to compress as heavily as PA but at least it’s open source and any 7ZIP files will still be able to be read and decompressed ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.
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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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Is this a known problem? Is there a fix coming? This is a primary reason I buy PA.
I’ve tried both methods I know to extract multiple zips at the same time. 1) Multi Extract feature in the GUI. 2) In Windows File Explorer, select multiple zips, right click, use PA context menu to Extract or Extract To…
Is there a setting I missed? Or maybe it really is processing in parallel, but I can’t detect it? Nothing tells me in the Processes in Task Manager that multiple PA extracts are running. And my CPU, memory and disk resources do not look like a lot of extracts are running.
I’m using PA 2022 Standard version 21.00.18 on Windows 11 Pro version 10.0.22621 Build 22621.
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In the latest version of PA, on W11 (latest build/SP) when you try to use the first level context menu - NOTHING HAPPENS (particularly when you do this from Downloads or Documents folders) - however I noticed that it DOES WORK when you use the context menu from the Desktop. Going to the second level context menu does work however.
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Is the version Preview 2023 also considered to be tested by the testteam ? In the past we got messages in the forum for testing out version x.x, to be downloaded by fastring, or I missed the one for 2023. (I discovered 2023 on the official web…)
CU, Pirrbe.
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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…
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It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
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Hi there, been a user since 13 years now and in past whenever I had a problem or question I could email, however since 3 weeks it seems like everybody is dead?
Anyway, as kind of a last resort, I post this email a 4th time but in this forum instead now, in the hope for help:
"This is the 3rd time I am emailing you guys as I am missing a working code for the preview of Power Archiver 2023Can you please help me? I am a 13 years lasting customer of yours, and I am shocked thatr for whatever reason my support tickets are ignored now, why?
thanks in advance!
All the best!
Joerg" -
Re: Explorer.exe Crash on right click
This appears to be happening again with the Power Archiver 2022 shell extensions.
When I have Use Explorer Shell Extensions enabled in Power Archiver Configuration and right-click on c:\Users\username\Start Menu, (hidden Junction file), File Explorer crashes.
I have version 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit installed in Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1826).
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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:
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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.
Zipx archives
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Can you add support for .zipx archives because it’s part of WinZip 12.1?
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you can already open zipx archives, and RC1 will associate itself with them.
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I haven’t installed RC1 yet, but is PA going to use .zipx by default for Unicode or non-Deflate zip archives? That’s what it sounds like WinZip is doing… finally. I thought that their fragmenting of “what a .zip file is, and where they work” was a terrible idea.
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I haven’t installed RC1 yet, but is PA going to use .zipx by default for Unicode or non-Deflate zip archives? That’s what it sounds like WinZip is doing… finally. I thought that their fragmenting of “what a .zip file is, and where they work” was a terrible idea.
me too :).
but it will be for advanced methods only (aes, unicode, etc, will be still standard zip and there is option to turn off creating of zipx if you want)…
I am afraid damage was already done to zip format, as this has taken 5 years to happen…
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Observations from the Add dialog, as triggered by the shell extension:
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I see that changing to an “advanced” compression method automatically changes the archive extension to .zipx. Nice. It’d be extra nice if it could switch it back to .zip when appropriate.
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Why is “Store” marked with a “.zipx” extension? It doesn’t actually change the archive extension, this is just in the Method combobox.
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Why the the Compression combobox still enabled when Method is set to Store?
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Changing the Encryption to AES doesn’t trigger a .zipx extension.
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BTW did you compared .zipx compression rates for PA2010 and winzip 12.1? I did a fast test, chose optimize for both applications, and winzip’s file came out a bit smaller than PA’s one….
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BTW did you compared .zipx compression rates for PA2010 and winzip 12.1? I did a fast test, chose optimize for both applications, and winzip’s file came out a bit smaller than PA’s one….
depends on type of files, we still dont have jpeg compression… everything else should be around same compression or slightly better, and we use multicore while they dont, so on >dual cores it should be significantly faster.
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Observations from the Add dialog, as triggered by the shell extension:
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I see that changing to an “advanced” compression method automatically changes the archive extension to .zipx. Nice. It’d be extra nice if it could switch it back to .zip when appropriate.
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Why is “Store” marked with a “.zipx” extension? It doesn’t actually change the archive extension, this is just in the Method combobox.
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Why the the Compression combobox still enabled when Method is set to Store?
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Changing the Encryption to AES doesn’t trigger a .zipx extension.
everything still does not work as it should, but we left aes as normal zip as there are many zip utilities that support it now and have been for 4-5 years now.
on the other hand, lzma and other newer methods are only readable by 2-3 programs including PA.
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keep in mind that in PA, you can select various compression strenghts for optimized, and Ultra/Max are very different from Normal…
