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    D davidsplash
    I do like the new website though I would like to have support tap to include in its menu the community forums. As at first I thought you got rid of them until I accidently went to bottom of support form page. It would be nice to have a menu for approved plugins for powerarchiver. I would be willing to test them for you.
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    D davidsplash
    Could powerarchiver be open sourced as I fear it is going to be lost once you decide to stop development on it.
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    BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02
    spwolfS spwolf
    New version: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02: Download: https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc221002.exe New build with new signature so shell extensions in Windows will function properly. Thanks everyone for your assistance!
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    Missing Icons
    LuxorL Luxor
    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 [image: 1695053428163-powerarc_2023-09-18_17-00-19.png] [image: 1695053445119-powerarc_2023-09-18_17-01-05.png]
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    MerowingerM Merowinger
    When I create a SFX-file from a zip (not from a 7-Zip) it happens that there is no icon for the file or a really ugly, pixelated icon. [image: 1563693941255-unbenannt-1.jpg]
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    End of Powerarchiver
    D davidsplash
    Powerarchiver is dead no updates to fix bugs no new features, no communication and errors in program update system with scripting errors. Duplicate context menus windows 11 no fixes no updates I declare that this is the last version.
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    Windows 11 Shell Extension crash
    W wilsonp
    Copied the Take Command shortcut, changed Target to be wt.exe -p “Take Command” and saved it. Right-clicked to get to properties and Explorer crashed. (wt.exe is the Microsoft Terminal program, which I have installed from the Microsoft Store.) The Target path had changed to: C:\Users{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe -p “Take Command” Created a new shortcut in a Start Menu folder and set the command line to the same, and it crashed the same. Created a new shortcut and set the command line to mspaint.exe (also a Windows Store app) and Explorer crashed on right-click on the shortcut. It appears PowerArchiver shell extensions doesn’t handle Windows Store apps in shortcuts properly. Perhaps it needs better defensive coding around checking the Target of shortcuts, or just ignoring shortcuts altogether. Running PA 22.00.11 on Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.6584
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    Affected by winrar/.rar vulnerability?
    C cmmpc
    Was Power Archiver affected by the WinRAR/.rar vulnerability discovered by ESET researchers recently? Not sure if PA is using their libraries for extraction.
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    D davidsplash
    anything planned for the future or is this software just dead now?
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    Ultimate zip was made by powerarchiver
    D davidsplash
    From google search AI Overview Yes, that’s correct. UltimateZip was indeed a product of the same company that developed PowerArchiver, and it was essentially a rebranded version of PowerArchiver. It was discontinued and replaced by PowerArchiver.
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    TheAndyMacT TheAndyMac
    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).
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    BETA PowerArchive 22.00.11 - Windows 11 Context Menu duplicated/additional tier
    TheAndyMacT TheAndyMac
    The Windows 11 context menu for PowerArchiver on normal files (to be compressed, etc.) is now showing multiple tiers with two identical menus. See attached captures of the issue: [image: 1736325038084-screenshot-2025-01-08-082909.png] [image: 1736325038147-screenshot-2025-01-08-082935.png] [image: 1736325038176-screenshot-2025-01-08-082953.png] Edition Windows 11 Pro Version 24H2 OS build 26100.2605
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    No Icons for SFX-Archives
    MerowingerM Merowinger
    Hello! I’ve just created SFX-Archives both from ZIP and 7z-Archives and none has an Icon as it seems. I use the new version 22.00.11. [image: 1729594955632-zwischenablage_10-22-2024_01.jpg]
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    Zip extraction from windows 11 by windows
    D davidsplash
    Basically I used powerarchiver context menus to zip up a folder then i used windows 11 own built in zip extractor via the context menu to extract all and this is where it throw up a fault. , I’m using windows 11 . The file that was a problem in the zip that windows 11 could not extract was iva “babe” cotton.jpg I know it has non standard quotes in it. However I had winrar on the computer and tried the exact same method with their context menu compress to zip and then I extracted the file with windows own extract all context menu and it had no problems. This indicates that powerarchiver is doing something different with iva “babe” cotton.jpg compressing to zip. Then I changed iva “babe” cotton.jpg to iva babe cotton.jpg and compressed it with powerarchiver and then tried it with windows 11 extract all and had no problems. It looks like powerarchiver is doing something to that one file that has quotes in it. Please note that powerarchiver extracted both zip files with no problems, only windows built in zip extraction had the fault. Reason I’m letting people know in case they send zip files with special characters in files names to people who do not have powerarchiver. When will a fix be implemented?
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    Installer problem
    L lxworld
    On installing the program I am getting the error message: "Unable to execute file c:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\pashutil.exe CreateProcess failed: code 2 The system cannot find the file specified" This can’t be right! I am using the latest official build of Windows 11
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    LuxorL Luxor
    Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen. [image: 1726996285086-about-window.png]
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    LuxorL Luxor
    Buttons not aligned on configuration window. [image: 1726914596335-configbuttons.png]
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    BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10
    spwolfS spwolf
    New version: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10: Download: https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220010.exe New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues. Thanks everyone for your assistance!
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    spwolfS spwolf
    New version: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11: Download: https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220011.exe New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues. Thanks everyone for your assistance!
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    THE SSL CERTIFICATE FOR *.POWERARCHIVER.COM HAS EXPIRED.
    Brian GregoryB Brian Gregory
    @spwolf @Mili THE SSL CERTIFICATE FOR *.POWERARCHIVER.COM HAS EXPIRED.
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    CRC error w/split zip in PA 11.50.61

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      spwolf conexware
      last edited by

      can you try selecting and compressing only several of these files, maybe it is some specific file/filename that is causing it to happen and that could help us isolate the issue.

      I have tested with 50 GB archive and all went well. So it has to be a bit more specific.

      thank you!

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        dragon57
        last edited by

        I have more info, but no specifics that I feel confident will help.

        I have tried zipping and splitting large sets of files, but none cause the problem except those from my VMware sets of files, and not all of those.

        The problem appears to be related to zipping up large files that when finished, end up being near the end of the split boundary.

        Example, I had eleven vm files that were all nearly 2GB in size. If I zipped them in dictionary name order, I could repeat the error, but if I renamed them and zipped in a different order, the problem did not exist. File name length seems to have nothing to do with the error.

        Does any of this make any sense?

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          spwolf conexware @dragon57
          last edited by

          @dragon57:

          I have more info, but no specifics that I feel confident will help.

          I have tried zipping and splitting large sets of files, but none cause the problem except those from my VMware sets of files, and not all of those.

          The problem appears to be related to zipping up large files that when finished, end up being near the end of the split boundary.

          Example, I had eleven vm files that were all nearly 2GB in size. If I zipped them in dictionary name order, I could repeat the error, but if I renamed them and zipped in a different order, the problem did not exist. File name length seems to have nothing to do with the error.

          Does any of this make any sense?

          not really, but i will try creating VM files of same size and reproducing it like that :)

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            ivan conexware
            last edited by

            Sorry, I didn’t found an answer to one my question - does creating same ZIP archive with same files and size without spanning works fine?

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              dragon57
              last edited by

              Yes, creating a zip with the same files without spanning works fine.

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                dragon57
                last edited by

                Just fyi, the latest rc still has this same problem. ;)

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                  spwolf conexware
                  last edited by

                  would it be possible for us to download those original files? Only way we can reproduce it (and fix it).

                  Maybe try with less files but same folder (smaller file size) and see if that works or not, if we can get smaller sample it will be easier.

                  thanks

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                    dragon57
                    last edited by

                    The file set is over 32GB, plus this is a VMware image that contains proprietary software. There is no way I could get it to you. I’ll try to come up with a repeatable scenario that causes the problem using smaller and different files, however the problem only seems to show up at the DVD sized split boundary.

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                      dragon57
                      last edited by

                      See if you can reproduce the problem using the below steps.

                      Download http://www.bertel.de/software/rdfc/rdfc.zip
                      Unzip the rdfc.exe file and put it in a temporary directory with at least 37GB of space.
                      From the temporary directory, create the test files by running the following commands in order:
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmdk” 1818
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s001.vmdk” 2146304000
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s002.vmdk” 2145976320
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s003.vmdk” 2139947008
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s004.vmdk” 2141257728
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s005.vmdk” 2145583104
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s006.vmdk” 2138832896
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s007.vmdk” 2140471296
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s008.vmdk” 2137587712
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s009.vmdk” 2135818240
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s010.vmdk” 2144796672
                      rdfc “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-s011.vmdk” 2146172928
                      Highlight all the vmdk files, right-click and select parameters per the attached pic.

                      I then open the .zip file in Winzip and perform a ‘Test’. I get a CRC error. If you unzip with PA, you should eventually get either a CRC error, an erroneous password prompt, etc.

                      Let me know if you have any questions.
                      attachment_p_20035_0_pa.jpg

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                        spwolf conexware
                        last edited by

                        extremly helpful, thanks a lot!

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                          spwolf conexware
                          last edited by

                          this issue has been fixed in next release :-)

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                            spwolf conexware
                            last edited by

                            and thanks a lot… huge help!

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                              dragon57
                              last edited by

                              That is so great. That had to be a hard one to diagnose and fix I bet. Great job and many thanks!

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                                spwolf conexware @dragon57
                                last edited by

                                @dragon57:

                                That is so great. That had to be a hard one to diagnose and fix I bet. Great job and many thanks!

                                going through 5 GB archives with hex editor = awesome :-)

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                                  spwolf conexware
                                  last edited by

                                  You can re-download 11.60.12 from our website. Please check it out and see if this solved your issue.
                                  We did not have a lot of time to test it out.

                                  Thanks!

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                                    dragon57
                                    last edited by

                                    Things are looking good. I tested two large directories that had problems before when zipped/split, but have no problems when zipped/split with the latest PA build. I’ll continue to keep a close watch on new zips going forward and let you know if I see a repeat of the problem.

                                    Thanks!

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                                      spwolf conexware
                                      last edited by

                                      awesome. I will keep this thread open just in case :).

                                      thanks

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