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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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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.
Forum Asking A Third Time For Password
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OK. You get a list of complaints.
I logged into powerarchiver.com. For some reason a separate login exists for the Forums. OK, perhaps one customer wants to allow his wife to log in under her own name? Kind of silly to place that support there upon you guys, but it it looks like you’re doing a wonderful job supporting that capability (or am I wrong?).
After I logged into the Forums once, I went to post a message within ten minutes. It asked me to log in a second time. Very odd for it to do that. That’s three times I logged in, all to post one message. (Not this message.) Three times to log in, two different passwords! A timed cookie works well for many web-sites. It does end up as a rather bothersome annoyance easily corrected.
I now must go back to what I was working on, find the file that PowerArchiver will not open and provide a link to it and ask questions there. No problem, but that comes under a new topic! See you in a moment under another topic.
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forums do save cookies :-). I dont ever login unless i clear my cookies. It might be some antivirus or adware remove that deletes cookies or maybe some setting in IE or Firefox?
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forums do save cookies :-). I dont ever login unless i clear my cookies. It might be some antivirus or adware remove that deletes cookies or maybe some setting in IE or Firefox?
Hmmm. Thanks. Perhaps that’s the problem. I think I have the cookies set to one site, meaning cookies from another website could not get employed. I sometimes need to test that ability myself. And I believe I logged into conexware.com on the first try and the powerarchiver.com exists as another domain-name… so that explains that, almost. I still needed to log in twice to the same domain-name.
That anti-virus stuff I tend to keep out of the browsers and email software as it messes things up too much, but that’s a possibility too, as I upgraded the anti-virus recently and refused to upgrade to this version for a long time. Thanks for mentioning that.
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Hmmm. Thanks. Perhaps that’s the problem. I think I have the cookies set to one site, meaning cookies from another website could not get employed. I sometimes need to test that ability myself. And I believe I logged into conexware.com on the first try and the powerarchiver.com exists as another domain-name… so that explains that, almost. I still needed to log in twice to the same domain-name.
That anti-virus stuff I tend to keep out of the browsers and email software as it messes things up too much, but that’s a possibility too, as I upgraded the anti-virus recently and refused to upgrade to this version for a long time. Thanks for mentioning that.
oh, if you sent email to support, thats different account from forums. we keep them completly separate. Maybe that was the issue?
Our store records are on different database for security reasons.
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The conexware.com domain name and the powerarchiver.com domain name represent two different domain names and sometimes I configure the browser to handle cookies from the current domain only to test things. That’s all that I meant in the previous reply.
Two logins into the same domain-name were probably handled by time-expiring cookies. They cookies are probably set for ten or fifteen minutes and I probably took fifteen or twenty minutes to post a reply.
This happened a couple times already. For the most part I was able to recover my post well enough on the first try, but I waited too long on the second post and I lost the entire post completely.
Don’t know who’s programming that, I did not look at the HTML code underneath, so I don’t know what’s going on, if your using a GET or a POST (or something else?).
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i dont think they are set to expire, honestly i dont remember when i had to login without clearing out cookies.
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Our store records are on different database for security reasons.
Not to mention that people who haven’t purchased yet may want to have a forum account.
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Testing things out with a different browser (Opera 9.64).
Going back to the article about About… Opera 9.64 provides the ability to copy and paste the browser version from the About… page to a new page. My apologies about jumping over to this topic with that topic. No need to reply here. Just wanted to notate that while testing Opera out here. Opera tends to work a little better than the other browser. I’ll let you guys know if I get timed out or whatever. I did not place a check mark into the “Remember me” check-box.
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you probably have to tick remember me if you want it to … remember you :-).
if you dont tick it, it probably expires soon thinking you are on public terminal.
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