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).
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.
If I compress a folder to a .pa using right click, Compress to folder.pa and use the new Windows 11 menu then the Options, Configuration, Miscellaneous, Use normal relative path setting is always enabled.
But I like this option disabled so I have to use the old style menu in order to get PA to compress a folder in the way I wish.
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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PA 22.00.09
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PA 22.00.09 shows a nag screen, when I try to open some setting windows. I have already PA 2023 Toolbox and PA shows, that it’s licensed in the info dialog.
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PA 22.00.09
Some labels in the help toolbar are not translated:
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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.
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?
Hi,
From where I get PAVD2023.EXE? PowerArchiver 2023 tries to open it.
But it seems, it tries to download PAVD2021.EXE.
Thanks
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.
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…
