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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 :-)
Can I have a link or can it be fixed. Thank you. CU later -
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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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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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 errorsIs 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 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!
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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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Dear @Alpha-Testers and all of our users,
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Please let us know here if you have Mac and can test latest builds.Features implemented:
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To start testing, please sign up here in this thread, and we will send you latest build.
thank you!
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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.
Trouble opening .tar.gz file
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I’m running PA 11.50.49 and I am having trouble opening a .tar.gz file that I got from the following URL:
http://www.annexia.org/_file/c2lib-1.4.2.tar.gz
No error or anything; it just doesn’t present me with the contents (except in the preview window - I can see the files inside, but I can’t do anything with them from the preview window).
The 7-Zip File Manager does not have any trouble with the archive. I’m wondering if this is a problem in PA RC (or beta or whatever 11.50.49 is) or if I have some configuration issue.
WinXP Pro 64-bit Edition
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I tested it in vista 32 bit and had the same problem…it doesn’t display any files but I converted it to a zip file and found 231 files in it.
Windows 10 Pro x64
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.00GHz
4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 399MHz
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Shell / Test reports “All OK”. :confused:
However, as this is in PACL forum :)
PAEXT (Beta 6) also has problems - loops with
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it doesnt list in main PA, wrote it in, thanks.
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Got it! Confirmed! Reported!!!
Many thanks!!
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I’m running PA 11.50.49 and I am having trouble opening a .tar.gz file that I got from the following URL:
http://www.annexia.org/_file/c2lib-1.4.2.tar.gz
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There’s something wrong with that file. For a start it’s about 6 times bigger than you’d expect for the files inside it.
However I agree it would be nice if the different parts of PowerArchiver were more consistent in how they interpreted it.
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@Brian:
There’s something wrong with that file. For a start it’s about 6 times bigger than you’d expect for the files inside it.
You’re right - the file is really just a TAR file. If I rename it such that the extension is just “.tar” instead of “.tar.gz”, PA handles it fine.
I wonder if it’s reasonable to ask PA to try and be a little bit forgiving when opening TAR/GZip files. It’s true that the file name is lying to PA so it seems unfair to tag this as a PA bug, but 7-Zip had no trouble figuring it out.
I don’t have a large sample size, but it seems like a fair percentage of tar/gzip files I come across on the Internet have a one problem or another (I’ve posted here a couple times over the years about them). Once again, this isn’t PA’s fault, but it might be nice to put enough smarts into PA to deal with these kinds of oddities - if possible.
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I’ve run into this annoyance yet again (http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/%7Em-mat/MT/MT2002/CODES/mt19937ar.tgz), so I’d like to ask again if PA can accommodate these misnamed tar files?
I know it’s not PA’s error, but if PA handled this problem seamlessly, it would let me avoid being irritated every once in a while.
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it cant right now, we dont have detection system in place at this point…
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Thanks for considering.
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I’ve run into this annoyance yet again (http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/%7Em-mat/MT/MT2002/CODES/mt19937ar.tgz), so I’d like to ask again if PA can accommodate these misnamed tar files?
I can open that file both via explorer shell and from within PA :confused:
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I can open that file both via explorer shell and from within PA :confused:
Are you running IE? I’m at work right now, and just tried it using IE7 on WinXP Pro x64. Even though the link has a .tgz extension in it, IE7 saved the download with a .tar extension and PA opened it up fine.
At home yesterday I was using Firefox 3.x (not sure what exact version) and it downloaded the file with a .tgz extension, causing confusion for PA. For some reason this kind of incorrect extension confusion seems to be common with .tar/.tgz/.gz files I come across on the Internet (which thankfully isn’t all too often).
I’ll try it again at home to make sure it wasn’t something I did.
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Are you running IE? I’m at work right now, and just tried it using IE7 on WinXP Pro x64. Even though the link has a .tgz extension in it, IE7 saved the download with a .tar extension and PA opened it up fine.
At home yesterday I was using Firefox 3.x (not sure what exact version) and it downloaded the file with a .tgz extension, causing confusion for PA. For some reason this kind of incorrect extension confusion seems to be common with .tar/.tgz/.gz files I come across on the Internet (which thankfully isn’t all too often).
I’ll try it again at home to make sure it wasn’t something I did.
No - I used Opera.
Downloaded same as your Firefox ( .tgz) but PA had no problems for me.
