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.
No Virtual Drive anymore..?
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Hello again,
AFAIK I cud rmb-select and .iso and then mount that as in a Virtual Drive.
That option has gone.PAStarter, when right clicking on the taskbar button the virtual drive stuff
(3rd and 4th item) is greyed out.What to do?
(have tried options/set to installation defaults, that wud not help)thanks
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In PA - what happens if you select “Virtual Drive”?
When I tried, PA downloaded the PAVD drivers, after restarting I then had the option in Explorer “right-click”.(Note: not sure how/when the drivers were “lost” but it’s now working for me)
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Thanks a lot! Indeed this helped. I would not have found this solution. Think this should all in fact be included in the total PA-installer, which I think it is not right now (?) as apparently it needs to be downloaded separately… ?
Anyway, problem solved.
thanks again!
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Thanks a lot! Indeed this helped. I would not have found this solution. Think this should all in fact be included in the total PA-installer, which I think it is not right now (?) as apparently it needs to be downloaded separately… ?
Anyway, problem solved.
thanks again!
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indeed, as PAVD installs extra drivers to the system, it is optional and not included into main installation.
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Would it then not be an idea to have this option installed by default.
After all, the PowerArchiver home site says
“… PowerArchiver 2010 enables you to create ISO images, either by ripping the CD/DVD/BD with Disc Grabber, or directly with files from your hard disk. With PowerArchiver’s Virtual Drive feature, you can also mount .ISO images into Windows so they appear like a normal drive and you can browse inside”Or at least, during the install process, ask the user whether he/she wants it.
Actually I got accustomed to it but for whatever reason the option suddenly was not available in the context menu and I had to search for a solution ending up to post this message.
All this would not be avoided… :)
PA is a relatievely small package, this extra will not make it substantially bigger I guess.
That aside, don’t see this as criticism. PA is a wonderful product. I am trying to think along.
Same as my wishlist item to have unmount drive as a context menu item as well - right now I need to launch PAstarter to do that.Thanks
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Would it then not be an idea to have this option installed by default.
After all, the PowerArchiver home site says
“… PowerArchiver 2010 enables you to create ISO images, either by ripping the CD/DVD/BD with Disc Grabber, or directly with files from your hard disk. With PowerArchiver’s Virtual Drive feature, you can also mount .ISO images into Windows so they appear like a normal drive and you can browse inside”Or at least, during the install process, ask the user whether he/she wants it.
Actually I got accustomed to it but for whatever reason the option suddenly was not available in the context menu and I had to search for a solution ending up to post this message.
All this would not be avoided… :)
PA is a relatievely small package, this extra will not make it substantially bigger I guess.
That aside, don’t see this as criticism. PA is a wonderful product. I am trying to think along.
Same as my wishlist item to have unmount drive as a context menu item as well - right now I need to launch PAstarter to do that.Thanks
problem is that small amount of users actually use PAVD, and PAVD installation is 3 MB… This is why it is an option… there are few other ways i can think of (prompt when registering pro for instance), but in any case, most of the users if they get automatic prompt for installing PAVD would be suprised, some of them unpleasently, that PA is installing some drivers for them ;-). This is why we have done it this way.
In fact as it is, we got few support emails with regards to PA installing drivers, from confused and sometimes angry people (who assumed PA is doing something malicious).
What we could possibly do is enable PAVD in Starter, just like in main PA, and if it is not present, download it… Thats maybe too, because that might enlarge Starter as well, which means less people will be using it, despite our efforts to make it as efficient as possible ;-).
So you can see decisions are not that simple as they might seam ;-).
p.s. PA’s installation is between 9 and 10 MB right now… for me, thats a lot… we are planning to add more features in the future, so we are always trying to keep installation smaller, adding 3 MB would make my head explode ;-). In fact, we hope to lower the installation size soon, there are some updates coming there ;-).
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p.s. PA’s installation is between 9 and 10 MB right now… for me, thats a lot… we are planning to add more features in the future, so we are always trying to keep installation smaller, adding 3 MB would make my head explode ;-). In fact, we hope to lower the installation size soon, there are some updates coming there ;-).
I agree.
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and of course, any kind of input is always valuable to us… we dont view your reports as anything but very positive! :-)
(i have also just added more info in help on installing PAVD)
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I agree.
off topic, did you see response to that blog post? I did not notice it before, write an thread about those 2 things please, might be able to fix unicode in edit box, i hope…
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Thanks a lot for yr comments. I was not aware of all the above and frankly would not have assumed ‘protests’
against this tool being installed.Different views apparently as I think it very handy indeed.
Either I need to install another application (like Deamon) or use Nero’s virtual drive (slow, I don’t like it) or PA, fast.
Well, anyway.Security software may alarm users when installing the software. My Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 did
and I needed to click ‘Allow’ to have the program installed.
When looking the the logfile I see PASTARTPORT13004.TMP marked as suspicious.Just a tip.
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Oh, one last remark, about installing virtual drive.
As suggested, you may wish to leave it upto the user, so somewhere during the installation the user can (un)tag install the virtual drive software.So, all parties are happy then, I guess… :-)
rgds
