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).
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:
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Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
OS build 26100.2605
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.
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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?
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
Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen.
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Buttons not aligned on configuration window.
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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!
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!
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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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.
Curious hang while selecting folder in creating a backup-script
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I’ve a curious problem on my system with PowerArchiver v11.50.61 and higher.
When selecting a folder, e.g. a folder for the destination media or selecting a folder to add to the backup, the system hangs while displaying the folder selector box. Then I can’t shutdown “PABackup.exe” with the task manager. Even shutting down the system doesn’t work anymore and I have to use to power switch to turn off the system.Because I didn’t have this problem on earlier versions, I installed older versions of Power Archiver to see from which version this problem happens. Up till version v11.50.49 RC2 I don’t have any problems, but with versions v11.50.61 & v11.60.08, Power Archive Backup hangs when selecting the folder.
I’ve a dual boot system with Windows XP and Vista Ultimate. It happens in both XP and Vista. But on another system with only Windows XP, it works perfectly.
So it seems a problem on a specific system configuration (maybe because I have a dual boot system). I think it is related with the “Recycle Bin” because when the “folder selecting” dialogbox is show, all the icons are shown, but the “recycle bin” icon stays blank. When I then go to Windows Explorer, I can select every folder I want, but if I click on the “Recylce Bin”, Windows Explorer hangs too. When PABackup is not selecting a folder, I can select the “Recycle Bin” in Windows Explorer without any problems.I understand this problem might be difficult to reproduce because it only happens on a specific system configuration. It happens on my dual boot system and not on another system. But it is curious to me because older versions of PA work on my system and the latest not. So I wonder if you have changed something to the folder selection code after version 11.50.49?
Thanks and regards,
Robert
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I got the chance to test it on another dual boot XP/Vista system and there it works perfectly.
So it seems a curious fluke of my system (not the windows installation itself because it happens in both XP and Vista). I ran checkdisk but it didn’t found any errors on my partitions.Very strange. I will be using PA v11.50.29 for now until I have time to reinstall my system. Maybe that helps.
Robert
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send us your HKCU/Software/PowerArchiver reg file to
support at conexware .comwe’ll take a look
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Robert,
please check with version 11.60.10 that has just been released and let us know if it is still the same.
thanks!
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Thanks for the quick response.
But unfortunately v11.60.10 still hangs when selecting a folder. So I’m back to v11.50.49 again.Since I can’t reproduce this problem on other machines, it might be some problem specific to my Windows installation. So don’t spend too much time on this problem until I’ve found a way to reproduce it on other machines. But it is strange that it only hangs on v11.60.x and not on earlier versions.
Thanks and regards,
Robert
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Robert,
there has been an update to PowerArchiver backup in RC3 version that has been updated today.
You need to go to download page and get Preview version and try this again.
One of the updates was this issue with folders, even if we could not reproduce it, we changed the way selection of folders works internally - now it works exactly the same as in Windows Explorer, which has its positives and negatives, postive should be that it should not have some weird bugs like this.
thanks!
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I fear I am missing your instructions.
The one on the download page has the same date and the same number.
Is that the one we should download?
Is there a separate preview page?
Hugh
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its that one, just re-download it please.
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Hi,
I’ve updated to the RC3 version and it indeed fixes the problems I had with selecting a folder when creating a backup script :)
Many thanks!Robert
Robert,
there has been an update to PowerArchiver backup in RC3 version that has been updated today.
One of the updates was this issue with folders, even if we could not reproduce it, we changed the way selection of folders works internally - now it works exactly the same as in Windows Explorer, which has its positives and negatives, postive should be that it should not have some weird bugs like this.
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Hi,
I’ve updated to the RC3 version and it indeed fixes the problems I had with selecting a folder when creating a backup script :)
Many thanks!Robert
thank you robert, closing this thread!