Hello @Mili,
thanks for your help in getting my PowerArchiver CommandLine license (Re: License Code Not Working / Missing) and sorry for my late reply. I do check my spam folder regularly and couldn’t find a mail from support. Also, there was no mail in my backups or any mention of it in my email logs.
I have a question regarding my licenses in the hope you are able to help me:
While my account lists “PowerArchiver Select - lifetime free upgrades and support for PowerArchiver Toolbox English - Count 2”, this does not apply for PACL, which was included with my purchase. My account shows only PowerArchiver Select - 12 months of upgrades and support for PowerArchiver Command Line - Single User License.
Since PACL was included with PowerArchiver Toolbox, shouldn’t PACL also come with a lifetime license for 2 PCs?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Version:
PACL 9.00 Beta 2
What’s New since version PACL 7:
Updated to PowerArchiver 2017 engine
Fully unicode interface
RAR v5 (v4) support
PAE2 support
Latest format support and all the various engine updates done in PA 2017.
Full support for .PA format with many different options and switches.
Download:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2017/PACL900-170429.EXE
Due to the support of new PA format and all the changes needed for that support, we decided to move up version number to PACL 9. This is purely cosmetical - companies who purchased PACL8, have PACL9 now added to their orders. Users who have free upgrades for PACL8, now have PACL9 added as free upgrade (Business users with active select (pro/tbx), all personal users (pro/tbx).
Since we are finalizing PA 2017, we can also now spend a lot more time on PACL9.
Please check your bugs, and check .PA support as well.
Thank you! @Alpha-Testers
PA Team
ConeXware, Inc.
My OS: Windows XP Home Edition, SP3
The version number and date of the program: PowerArchiver Command Line v9.00b [Feb 23 2019]
The program not extracts one self-extracting file.
How to reproduce the problem
Download the SFX file by link: install.exe
Copy the “install.exe” file into the same location as the program is located.
Go to the DOS prompt. Make your PACL location the default drive.
If it is on the E drive enter the command E: and press enter. Replace “E:” with the appropriate drive letter.
Enter command cd e:<path name> to go to the location where the program resides.
Enter command:
paext32 -o+ -p"install" "install.exe"
As a result, the “install” directory will not be created and no
files will be extracted.
The “install.exe” file may be damaged but if you use a program such as 7-Zip or PeaZip to extract the files, the extraction process is successful. I want the PACL to also unpack such a file.
This problem is very critical for me. I often come across this. I do not want to resort to using other compression program.
… Michael
Version:
PACL 8.00 Beta 1
Whats New:
Updated to PowerArchiver 2016 engine
Fully unicode interface
RAR v5 (v4) support
PAE2 support
Latest format support such as improved ZIPX, ISO, etc, etc, etc.
Download:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/pacl800b1.exe
Please test it against your existing scripts and let us know. There will be some features added in future release as well as more testing.
This is first release, please test. Thank you!
Hi,
I’ve made changes to fix some problems with PAConv.bat:
1. Replaced the “” by () in the first two lines, so that it’ll work with command line arguments in quotation marks
2. Replaced deltree with rmdir, since deltree is unknown at least in Windows XP and later
3. Also replaced the del command, which left an empty $PATEMP$ directory with rmdir
4. Changed $PATEMP$ to “%TEMP%$PATEMP$.%time::=%”, so that no write privileges are needed in the current directory as the users Temp directory is used and that more operations will work simultaneous, as long as they are not started at the very same time.
5. Changed %n to “%~n” to allow parameters with spaces and quotation marks
if (%1)==() goto help
if (%2)==() goto help
SET PATMPDIR=%TEMP%\$PATEMP$.%time::=%
if exist "%PATMPDIR%" rmdir /s /q "%PATMPDIR%"
mkdir "%PATMPDIR%"
paext -e -d -p"%PATMPDIR%" "%~1"
echo.
pacomp -a -r -p -w "%~2" "%PATMPDIR%\*.*"
echo.
rmdir /s /q "%PATMPDIR%"
SET PATMPDIR=
I spent many hours trying to figure out how to use PACOMP to add about 50 Gb to a spanned 7z archive with AES256 encryption, and have yet to be successful.
I’ve tried every combination of switches I can think of, with no success. Can someone offer a combination of switches that is known to work for this kind of task?
All I have been able to make is a set of spanned files that PA cannot open.
Hi
I am trying to understand what is default encryption method for PACOMP -fips command?
And what is the difference if you specify encryption method using e[0,1,2] command?
Using only FIPS:
pacomp -a -ssecret -fips -p stuff.bh “c:\my stuff*.*”
FIPS combined with e2
pacomp -a -ssecret -fips -e2 -p stuff.bh “c:\my stuff*.*”
Hi All
I have archive that holds password protected, encrypted data which is created using something like this:
C:\Temp\ZipTest>pacomp -a -spassword -fips -e2 archive.zip "C:\Temp\ZipTest" -x"C:\Temp\ZipTest\ReadMe.txt"
Then I add regular file into that archive which is not encrypted and not password protected. “ReamMe.txt” sort of file. Using command below.
C:\Temp\ZipTest>pacomp -a archive.zip "C:\Temp\ZipTest\ReadMe.txt"
Now when I extract this archive using:
paext -spassword -p"C:\ZipTest\Temp" archive.zip
Everything extracts correctly except for ReadMe.txt file. File is present but content is empty.
I get following
error: extracting: ReadMe.txt --> CRC ERROR! [100%]
How can I extract archive without corruption ReadMe.txt file?
Does PA (preferably the CL version) have the facility to archive files based on an age?
(I want to be able to move a quantity of files out of a folder and into an archive if (and only if) they’re over 35 days old.
I have an ancient copy of ARJ that can do this (via the -odb switch) but I’d like to use PA, and can’t work out if it’s possible.
Hi in pacomp.vbs by Micke how to preserve the folders structure of the files to compress.:confused: because just compress the files not the folder structure of each file.
thanks
'*******************************************************************
'* PACOMP.vbs
'* @author: Micke
'* @hist 2010-02-26 CREATED:Script for compress multiple file types
'* @hist 2010-03-01 BUGFIX: Space in path or filename resulted in
'* no archive was created.
'*
'* Script for compress multiple file types
'*
'* Usage: cscript PACOMP.vbs ArchiveName.extension DrivePath
'* Example1: cscript PACOMP.vbs C:\Temp\MyArchive.zip D:
'* Example2: cscript PACOMP.vbs C:\Temp\MyArchive.zip D:\Temp
'*
'*******************************************************************
Option Explicit
'Variables
Dim FSO, objDir, aList, FileExtension, ArchiveName, DrivePath
Dim aFile, aItem, strCompressionString, WshShell
'Constants (Change path to your own enviroment)
Const PACOMP = "C:\Programs\PACL\PACOMP.exe"
'Check number of arguments
If WScript.Arguments.Count <> 2 Then
WScript.Echo "Usage: cscript PACOMP.vbs ArchiveName.extension DrivePath"
WScript.Echo "Example 1: cscript PACOMP.vbs C:\Temp\MyArchive.zip D:"
WScript.Echo "Example 2: cscript PACOMP.vbs C:\Temp\MyArchive.zip D:\Temp"
WScript.Quit
End If
'Create the FileSystemObject
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create the ShellObject
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'Get data from the Arguments
ArchiveName = WScript.Arguments.Item(0)
DrivePath = WScript.Arguments.Item(1)
'Get the Folders for the DrivePath
Set objDir = FSO.GetFolder(DrivePath)
'Create a Array with Fileextensions for the archive, change to your enviroment
aList = Array("png", "jpg", "avi")
'Search through the folders
SearchFolders(objDir)
'Sub for Searching recursive in Folders
Sub SearchFolders(pstrCurrentPath)
For Each aFile In pstrCurrentPath.Files
For Each FileExtension In aList
If FileExtension = LCase(Right(CStr(aFile.Name), 3)) Then
AddFileToArchive aFile.Path
End If
Next
Next
For Each aItem In pstrCurrentPath.SubFolders
SearchFolders(aItem)
Next
End Sub
Sub AddFileToArchive(pstrFileName)
'Create the string with parameters for PACOMP
strCompressionString = PACOMP & " -a -P " & Chr(34) & ArchiveName & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & pstrFileName & Chr(34)
WScript.Echo strCompressionString
WshShell.Run strCompressionString, 0, True
End Sub
Automatic add date and time to Archivename
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Hi TBGBe!
Yes, but PACOMP cannot create the archive as it needs "tar.gz / tar.bz2 " to perform the compression :p
I have tested this and both creation and extraction of archive work with filename like Test1.tar_20100407_213915.bz2 or Test2.tar_20100407_213915.gz
C:\Programs\PACL>pacomp -a Test1.tar_20100407_213915.bz2 *.txt Archive: C:\Programs\PACL\Test1.tar_20100407_213915.bz2 preparing to compress... adding: filelist.txt --> Done. [0%] adding: filelist2.txt --> Done. [0%] adding: LICENSE.TXT --> Done. [22%] adding: MANUAL.TXT --> Done. [59%] adding: ORDER.TXT --> Done. [62%] adding: README.TXT --> Done. [77%] adding: WHATSNEW.TXT --> Done. [100%] BZIPing... please wait... All OK C:\Programs\PACL>C:\Programs\PACL>paext -e -pc:\Programs\Temp Test1.tar_20100407_213915.bz2 Archive --> C:\Programs\PACL\Test1.tar_20100407_213915.bz2 [BZIPed TAR] extracting: filelist.txt --> Done. [0%] extracting: filelist2.txt --> Done. [0%] extracting: LICENSE.TXT --> Done. [22%] extracting: MANUAL.TXT --> Done. [59%] extracting: ORDER.TXT --> Done. [62%] extracting: README.TXT --> Done. [77%] extracting: WHATSNEW.TXT --> Done. [100%] C:\Programs\PACL>C:\Programs\PACL>pacomp -a Test2.tar_20100407_213915.gz *.txt Archive: C:\Programs\PACL\Test2.tar_20100407_213915.gz preparing to compress... adding: filelist.txt --> Done. [0%] adding: filelist2.txt --> Done. [0%] adding: LICENSE.TXT --> Done. [22%] adding: MANUAL.TXT --> Done. [59%] adding: ORDER.TXT --> Done. [62%] adding: README.TXT --> Done. [77%] adding: WHATSNEW.TXT --> Done. [100%] GZIPing... please wait... All OK C:\Programs\PACL>C:\Programs\PACL>paext -e -pc:\Programs\Temp Test2.tar_20100407_213915.gz Archive --> C:\Programs\PACL\Test2.tar_20100407_213915.gz [GZIPed TAR] extracting: filelist.txt --> Done. [0%] extracting: filelist2.txt --> Done. [0%] extracting: LICENSE.TXT --> Done. [22%] extracting: MANUAL.TXT --> Done. [59%] extracting: ORDER.TXT --> Done. [62%] extracting: README.TXT --> Done. [77%] extracting: WHATSNEW.TXT --> Done. [100%] C:\Programs\PACL> ```Maybe I have missed something here :confused: but it seems to work properly for me. Kind Regards Micke -
Hmm, perhaps I’m missing something then - I get this when running the script
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Hmm, perhaps I’m missing something then - I get this when running the script
Hmm, I can see one thing that could get this error. In the script there’s one constant
Const PACOMP = "C:\Programs\PACL\PACOMP.exe"You are in C:\PACL when you are running the script and the commandline starts with “C:\Programs\PACL\PACOMP.exe”, but are you sure you have PACL installed in that folder? I know I haven’t comment the script about that you have to change this line, because the constant is the same as I have used in previous scripts.
Kind Regards
Micke -
Hi!
Here’s the updated script. Now the date and time always is placed before the first dot in the filename, like this.MyArchive_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.properties.txt.tar.bz2
I have also put a check if PACOMP.exe exists in the specified path of the constant. If not, a message will tell you about it and the script will exit.
'*********************************************************************** '* PACOMP_DT.vbs '* @author: Micke '* @hist 2010-04-05 CREATED:Script for adding Date and Time to Filename '* @hist 2010-04-06 BUGFIX: Assumed the file extension always contains '* 3 character, resulting in incorrect '* Filename when using a file extension with '* other than 3 characters. '* @hist 2010-04-06 UPDATE: Added support for different dateformat '* @hist 2010-04-08 UPDATE: Added check for existing PACOMP in the '* specified path '* @hist 2010-04-08 UPDATE: Moved date and time to be placed before '* the first dot in the filename '* '* The script requires 4 parameters '* Usage: cscript PACOMP_DT.vbs <param1> <param2> <param3> <param4> '* '* param1: -d1 = Add current date (YYYYMMDD) to filename '* -d2 = Add current date (DDMMYYYY) to filename '* -d3 = Add current date (MMDDYYYY) to filename '* -d = Works the same as -d1 '* -t = Add current time to filename '* -dt = Add current date and time to filename '* '* param2: The commands PACOMP uses '* param3: Filename of the Archive with extension '* param4: Path to file(s) and/or directory '* '* Add date and time to Archivename MyArchive.zip '* Example: cscript PACOMP_DT.vbs -dt -a C:\Temp\MyArchive.zip D:\*.doc '* '*********************************************************************** Option Explicit 'Variables Dim FSO, WshShell, objRegEx, strDate, strDT_Parameter, strArchiveExtension Dim strTime, strArchiveNamePath, strPACOMP_Commands, strFileName Dim strOnlyArchiveName, strPath, strOnlyArchiveNameNoExtension Dim strCompressionString, bCheck 'Constants Const PACOMP = "C:\Programs\PACL\PACOMP.exe" 'Check number of arguments If WScript.Arguments.Count <> 4 Then WScript.Echo "Usage: cscript PACOMP_DT.vbs <param1> <param2> <param3> <param4>" WScript.Echo "param1: -d1 = Add current date (YYYYMMDD) to filename" WScript.Echo "param1: -d2 = Add current date (DDMMYYYY) to filename" WScript.Echo "param1: -d3 = Add current date (MMDDYYYY) to filename" WScript.Echo "param1: -d = Works the same as -d1" WScript.Echo "param1: -t = Add current time to filename" WScript.Echo "param1: -dt = Add current date and time to filename" WScript.Echo "param2: The commands PACOMP uses" WScript.Echo "param3: Filename of the Archive with extension" WScript.Echo "param4: Path to file(s) and/or directory" WScript.Echo "Example: cscript PACOMP_DT.vbs -dt -a C:\Temp\MyArchive.zip D:\*.doc" WScript.Echo "Will add date and time to Archivename MyArchive.zip" WScript.Quit End If 'Create the FileSystemObject Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 'Create the ShellObject Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 'Get data from the Arguments strDT_Parameter = WScript.Arguments.Item(0) strPACOMP_Commands = WScript.Arguments.Item(1) strArchiveNamePath = WScript.Arguments.Item(2) strFileName = WScript.Arguments.Item(3) 'Check that PACOMP exists in the specified path If FSO.FileExists(PACOMP) Then WScript.Echo "PACOMP.exe found, ok to continue the script" Else WScript.Echo "PACOMP.exe could not be found in the specified path" WScript.Echo "The path is set to: " & PACOMP WScript.Echo "Update the constant PACOMP to contain a valid path" WScript.Echo "Exit the script" WScript.Quit End If 'Check the parameter for Date and Time If CheckDTParameter() = True Then UpdateArchiveName() RunPACOMP() Else WScript.Echo "Parameter 1 incorrect" WScript.Echo "Value set as: " & strDT_Parameter WScript.Echo "Expected value would be: -t, -d, -d1, -d2,-d3, -dt, -d1t, -d2t, -d3t" WScript.Echo "Exit the script" WScript.Quit End If Sub UpdateArchiveName() 'Get the ArchiveName from the path strOnlyArchiveName = Mid(strArchiveNamePath, InStrRev(strArchiveNamePath, "\")+1) 'Get the ArchiveExtension strArchiveExtension = Mid(strArchiveNamePath, InStr(strArchiveNamePath, ".")+1) 'Get the ArchiveName without extension strOnlyArchiveNameNoExtension = Left(strOnlyArchiveName, Len(strOnlyArchiveName)-Len(strArchiveExtension)-1) 'Get the Path without the ArchiveName strPath = Left(strArchiveNamePath,Len(strArchiveNamePath)-Len(strOnlyArchiveName)) 'Insert Date and Time to the ArchiveName If strDT_Parameter = "-d" Or strDT_Parameter = "-d1" Or strDT_Parameter = "-d2" Or strDT_Parameter = "-d3" Then strOnlyArchiveName = strOnlyArchiveNameNoExtension & "_" & strDate & "." & strArchiveExtension ElseIf strDT_Parameter = "-t" Then strOnlyArchiveName = strOnlyArchiveNameNoExtension & "_" & strTime & "." & strArchiveExtension Else strOnlyArchiveName = strOnlyArchiveNameNoExtension & "_" & strDate & "_" & strTime & "." & strArchiveExtension End If strArchiveNamePath = strPath & strOnlyArchiveName End Sub Sub RunPACOMP() 'Create the string with parameters for PACOMP strCompressionString = PACOMP & " " & strPACOMP_Commands & " " & Chr(34) & strArchiveNamePath & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & strFileName & Chr(34) WScript.Echo strCompressionString WshShell.Run strCompressionString, 0, True End Sub Function FormatNumbers(n, totalDigits) If totalDigits > Len(n) Then FormatNumbers = String(totalDigits-Len(n),"0") & n Else FormatNumbers = n End If End Function Function CheckDTParameter() Select Case strDT_Parameter Case "-d" 'YYYYMMDD bCheck = True strDate = Year(Date()) & FormatNumbers(Month(Date()),2) & FormatNumbers(Day(Date()),2) Case "-d1" 'YYYYMMDD bCheck = True strDate = Year(Date()) & FormatNumbers(Month(Date()),2) & FormatNumbers(Day(Date()),2) Case "-d2" 'DDMMYYYY bCheck = True strDate = FormatNumbers(Day(Date()),2) & FormatNumbers(Month(Date()),2) & Year(Date()) Case "-d3" 'MMDDYYYY bCheck = True strDate = FormatNumbers(Month(Date()),2) & FormatNumbers(Day(Date()),2) & Year(Date()) Case "-t" 'HHMMSS bCheck = True GetFormattedTime() Case "-dt" 'YYYYMMDD HHMMSS bCheck = True strDate = Year(Date()) & FormatNumbers(Month(Date()),2) & FormatNumbers(Day(Date()),2) GetFormattedTime() Case "-d1t" 'YYYYMMDD HHMMSS bCheck = True strDate = Year(Date()) & FormatNumbers(Month(Date()),2) & FormatNumbers(Day(Date()),2) GetFormattedTime() Case "-d2t" 'DDMMYYYY HHMMSS bCheck = True strDate = FormatNumbers(Day(Date()),2) & FormatNumbers(Month(Date()),2) & Year(Date()) GetFormattedTime() Case "-d3t" 'MMDDYYYY HHMMSS bCheck = True strDate = FormatNumbers(Month(Date()),2) & FormatNumbers(Day(Date()),2) & Year(Date()) GetFormattedTime() Case Else bCheck = False End Select CheckDTParameter = bCheck End Function Sub GetFormattedTime() 'Clear unwanted characters from the date and time Set objRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp") objRegEx.Global = True objRegEx.Pattern = "[^0-9]" 'Find out current time strTime = FormatDateTime(Time(), vbLongTime) 'Clear unwanted characters from the date and time strTime = objRegEx.Replace(strTime, "") End Sub</param4> </param3></param2></param1></param4></param3></param2></param1>Kind Regards
Micke -
Hmm, I can see one thing that could get this error. In the script there’s one constant
Const PACOMP = "C:\Programs\PACL\PACOMP.exe"You are in C:\PACL when you are running the script
Blush :o
However, when I remembered to change it, I still have a problem opening the archive using PowerArchiver (not PACL) as it doesn’t handle the tar file because of the date text.
Here’s the updated script.
OK this works well for me now - thanks a lot. :D
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OK this works well for me now - thanks a lot. :D
No problem, however it was a little more job to get it running the way I wanted than I expected in the beginning.
I suspect the next script will be much more complicated than this one. I haven’t sorted out yet how to solve all the problems in it, but it will be a different way of using PACL to create archives.
Kind Regards
Micke -
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see http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml for a simple GUI builder. it’s perfect for a wrapper around a command line tool
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I have no plans for a GUI, as PA already has a very good and powerful GUI. I also want to thank TBGBe for taking time to test the script. Without your help I wouldn’t find the problem with extensions like tar.gz and tar.bz2.
I haven’t written the next upcoming script yet, but I have some ideas of what it should be able to do. You will see it when it’s ready for test.
Kind Regards
Micke -
I have no plans for a GUI …
That was meant to be a joke - not sure if Guido knew it.
P.S. Welcome back Guido :cool:
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I was never gone. I was always watching you guys big brother style. I just had nothing interesting to report. :-)
