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.
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 i5 3470 @ 3.20GHz
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 -
Shell / Test reports “All OK”. :confused:
However, as this is in PACL forum :)
PAEXT (Beta 6) also has problems - loops with
“ERROR: No TAR file inside. Probably corrupted GZIP file” -
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.
