I’m trying to backup the complete contents of a directory using:
pacomp64 -parcz T:\BACKUP.PA C:\STUFF
The contents of subdirectories of C:\STUFF isn’t getting backed up!
The sub directories are just stored as empty directories!
How do I achieve this ; show me a command line example !
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 supportLatest 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:
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
Hi,
there’s a problem with PAComp and file names with a leading ".\ ".
That’s nowadays a problem, since PowerShell auto complete will complete a file test.zip in the current directory to .\test.zip.
0_1524826660985_pacomp.png
The first command reports “All OK”, but test.7z is not created.
The second command reports an error, but the error message isn’t helpful at all. VSS doesn’t help anything if a program fails to write to a file. It’s for reading locked files… And the problematic file isn’t mentioned at all. By the way, there’s a typo, it should be “open”, not “opet”.
Only the third command (without ".\ ") works as expected.
The problem exists in the x86 and x64 version, it doesn’t matter if the archive already exists (updating) or not (creating a new archive).
would be nice to have czip support
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!
I am Having Appcrash mid problem in my Pc.
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
Password with a quote " in ist
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Sorry if this was answered before but I couldn’t find anything.
I have to create ZIP files on a regular basis that must be encrypted with a pssword. This password contains special characters, and especially the double quote ".
taking aa"a as an example password, my command line would be something like
pacomp -a -saa"a -e2 -p myfile.zip myfile.txt
… but this doesn’t work because the quotation mark is interpreted as the beginning of a string.
I tried escaping the " sign with “”, " and ^", but nothing of this works (in fact, with “”, pacomp created a file but with the password aaa instead of aa"a ). :(
Any advice? Thanks!
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Hi!
I haven’t tested using " in the password field, because the password I set can’t be used when I try to extract the file. Maybe I’m doing something wrong :confused:.Here’s my command for creating the archive with password.
pacomp -a -p -ssecret -s0 TestPassword.zip Logfile.log PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.01 [Feb 07 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2 Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive: D:\PACL_Test\TestPassword.zip preparing to compress... adding: Logfile.log --> Done. [100%] All OKNow I try extract the created file
paext -e -ssecret TestPassword.zip PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.01 [Feb 07 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Extr.---ZIP,ZIPX,7Z,CAB,LHA,ARJ,RAR,ACE,TAR,GZ,BZ2,UUE,ZOO,B64,YENC,... Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive --> D:\PACL_Test\TestPassword.zip [ZIP] extracting: Logfile.log *** Message: Invalid password secret *** Message: Invalid password secret *** Message: Invalid password secret --> CRC ERROR! [100%] *** Error: File fails CRC checkThe archive can’t be open because it thinks the password is incorrect.
I’m using PACL 6.01 and Win XP Sp3
Kind Regards
Micke -
micke try c1 or c2 and see how it goes…
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Sorry if this was answered before but I couldn’t find anything.
I have to create ZIP files on a regular basis that must be encrypted with a pssword. This password contains special characters, and especially the double quote ".
taking aa"a as an example password, my command line would be something like
pacomp -a -saa"a -e2 -p myfile.zip myfile.txt
… but this doesn’t work because the quotation mark is interpreted as the beginning of a string.
I tried escaping the " sign with “”, " and ^", but nothing of this works (in fact, with “”, pacomp created a file but with the password aaa instead of aa"a ). :(
Any advice? Thanks!
Thanks - Mili will write it up for upcoming release…
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got it, thanks Halvar!!
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Hi!
micke try c1 or c2 and see how it goes…
I don’t know what that parameter (c1, c2) does :p. Anyway I think I have found the problem now.
First without the -e parameter
D:\PACL_Test>pacomp -a -p -ssecret TestPassword.zip Logfile.log PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.01 [Feb 07 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2 Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive: D:\PACL_Test\TestPassword.zip preparing to compress... adding: Logfile.log --> Done. [100%] All OK D:\PACL_Test>Then I try extract the created archive using the same password
D:\PACL_Test>paext -e -ssecret TestPassword.zip PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.01 [Feb 07 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Extr.---ZIP,ZIPX,7Z,CAB,LHA,ARJ,RAR,ACE,TAR,GZ,BZ2,UUE,ZOO,B64,YENC,... Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive --> D:\PACL_Test\TestPassword.zip [ZIP] extracting: Logfile.log --> Done. [100%] D:\PACL_Test>As you can see, everything works fine. Repeat the test with parameter set to -e0
D:\PACL_Test>pacomp -a -p -ssecret -e0 TestPassword_e0.zip Logfile.log PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.01 [Feb 07 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2 Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive: D:\PACL_Test\TestPassword_e0.zip preparing to compress... adding: Logfile.log --> Done. [100%] All OK D:\PACL_Test>Looks fine, then extraction
D:\PACL_Test>paext -e -ssecret TestPassword_e0.zip PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.01 [Feb 07 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Extr.---ZIP,ZIPX,7Z,CAB,LHA,ARJ,RAR,ACE,TAR,GZ,BZ2,UUE,ZOO,B64,YENC,... Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive --> D:\PACL_Test\TestPassword_e0.zip [ZIP] extracting: Logfile.log --> Done. [100%] D:\PACL_Test>Do the same thing with parameter -e1
D:\PACL_Test>pacomp -a -p -ssecret -e1 TestPassword_e1.zip Logfile.log PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.01 [Feb 07 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2 Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive: D:\PACL_Test\TestPassword_e1.zip preparing to compress... adding: Logfile.log --> Done. [100%] All OK D:\PACL_Test>Extraction of the created archive
D:\PACL_Test>paext -e -ssecret TestPassword_e1.zip PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.01 [Feb 07 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Extr.---ZIP,ZIPX,7Z,CAB,LHA,ARJ,RAR,ACE,TAR,GZ,BZ2,UUE,ZOO,B64,YENC,... Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive --> D:\PACL_Test\TestPassword_e1.zip [ZIP] extracting: Logfile.log --> Done. [100%] D:\PACL_Test>And finally with the -e2 parameter
D:\PACL_Test>pacomp -a -p -ssecret -e2 TestPassword_e2.zip Logfile.log PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.01 [Feb 07 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2 Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive: D:\PACL_Test\TestPassword_e2.zip preparing to compress... adding: Logfile.log --> Done. [100%] All OK D:\PACL_Test>Extraction of the file
D:\PACL_Test>paext -e -ssecret TestPassword_e2.zip PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.01 [Feb 07 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Extr.---ZIP,ZIPX,7Z,CAB,LHA,ARJ,RAR,ACE,TAR,GZ,BZ2,UUE,ZOO,B64,YENC,... Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive --> D:\PACL_Test\TestPassword_e2.zip [ZIP] extracting: Logfile.log --> Done. [100%] D:\PACL_Test>Everything works without any problem now. The reason for the error message I got was because of this:
pacomp -a -p -ssecret -s0 TestPassword.zip Logfile.logI had probably some brain meltdown then I tried this last night , because instead of using the -e parameter I repeated the -s parameter again, resulting in a password set to 0 instead of secret and that caused my problem. :o:o:o
I didn’t even noticed this until now when I look at my post to see what parameter that I have used. My apologies for bringing this up. There’s no problem with the password set in PACOMP, only brain meltdown behind the keyboard :p
Kind Regards
Micke -
ok, np… thank you!
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Sorry if this was answered before but I couldn’t find anything.
I have to create ZIP files on a regular basis that must be encrypted with a pssword. This password contains special characters, and especially the double quote ".
taking aa"a as an example password, my command line would be something like
pacomp -a -saa"a -e2 -p myfile.zip myfile.txt
… but this doesn’t work because the quotation mark is interpreted as the beginning of a string.
I tried escaping the " sign with “”, " and ^", but nothing of this works (in fact, with “”, pacomp created a file but with the password aaa instead of aa"a ). :(
Any advice? Thanks!
^" should work fine?
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PACL 6.02 RC:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/release10/pacl602.exePlease check your reported issues and see if they are fixed or not… thanks!
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-s@filename to pickup password from file…
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Hi!
Time for another test. This time with quote in password. Here’s the result from the testCreate a archive with password = aa"a
D:\PACL_Test>pacomp -a -saa"a -e2 -p Test3.zip PICT0030.jpg PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.02 [Oct 10 2010] Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version This product is licensed to: Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2 Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Example PACOMP commands: ------------------------ pacomp -a docs.zip "c:\my documents\*.doc" Compress all *.doc files from "c:\my documents" directory to archive docs.zip pacomp -a -ssecret -c0 -p -r stuff.bh "c:\my stuff\*" Compress all files from "c:\my stuff" directory and subdirectories to archive stuff.bh with no compression and with password "secret" Press ENTER to continue: ```PACOMP won't accept quote in password. Next thing try using ^"D:\PACL_Test>pacomp -a -saa^"a -e2 -p Test3.zip PICT0030.jpg
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.02 [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright© 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
This product is licensed to:
Archive Compression Utility – ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2
Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.comExample PACOMP commands:
pacomp -a docs.zip “c:\my documents*.doc”
Compress all *.doc files from “c:\my documents” directory to archive
docs.zippacomp -a -ssecret -c0 -p -r stuff.bh “c:\my stuff*”
Compress all files from “c:\my stuff” directory and subdirectories to
archive stuff.bh with no compression and with password “secret”Press ENTER to continue:
Content of password.txtaa"a
I then create the archiveD:\PACL_Test>pacomp -a -s@password.txt -e2 -p Test3.zip PICT0030.jpg
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.02 [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright© 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
This product is licensed to:
Archive Compression Utility – ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2
Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.comArchive: D:\PACL_Test\Test3.zip
preparing to compress…
adding: PICT0030.JPG --> Done. [100%]All OK
D:\PACL_Test>
D:\PACL_Test>paext -t Test3.zip
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 6.02 [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright© 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
This product is licensed to: Mikael Hedman
Archive Extr.—ZIP,ZIPX,7Z,CAB,LHA,ARJ,RAR,ACE,TAR,GZ,BZ2,UUE,ZOO,B64,YENC,…
Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.comArchive --> D:\PACL_Test\Test3.zip [ZIP]
testing: PICT0030.JPG Enter password for PICT0030.JPG: aaa
*** Message: Invalid password aaa
Enter password for PICT0030.JPG: aa"a
–> OK [100%]D:\PACL_Test>
Test result: **OK with remark** The user should not have to put the password in a textfile to use quote in the password. On the other hand the workaround by using a textfile will solve the problem with quote in the password. Since I'm not sure what the expected result would be, but from the post of spwolf I get the impression that it should be possible now to use quote in a password when using PACL 6.02 even without a password stored in a textfile. Kind Regards Micke -
Hi!
I have now retested this using PACL 7.00 beta 1. As before I have tried to create a archive with a quote in password. Here’s the result from the testCreate a archive with password = aa"a
C:\PACL_Test\Amiga>pacomp -a -saa"a -e2 -p Test1.zip REFSCAN*.* PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 7.00 [Jan 29 2012] Copyright(c) 1998-2012 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZ2,XZ,LZM A Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Example PACOMP commands: ------------------------ pacomp -a docs.zip "c:\my documents\*.doc" Compress all *.doc files from "c:\my documents" directory to archive docs.zip pacomp -a -ssecret -c0 -p -r stuff.bh "c:\my stuff\*" Compress all files from "c:\my stuff" directory and subdirectories to archive stuff.bh with no compression and with password "secret" Press ENTER to continue:PACOMP won’t accept quote in password. Next thing try using ^"
C:\PACL_Test\Amiga>pacomp -a -saa^"a -e2 -p Test1.zip REFSCAN*.* PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 7.00 [Jan 29 2012] Copyright(c) 1998-2012 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZ2,XZ,LZM A Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Example PACOMP commands: ------------------------ pacomp -a docs.zip "c:\my documents\*.doc" Compress all *.doc files from "c:\my documents" directory to archive docs.zip pacomp -a -ssecret -c0 -p -r stuff.bh "c:\my stuff\*" Compress all files from "c:\my stuff" directory and subdirectories to archive stuff.bh with no compression and with password "secret" Press ENTER to continue:Still no success. I then try put the password in a file.
Content of password.txt
aa"aI then create the archive
C:\PACL_Test\Amiga>pacomp -a -s@password.txt -e2 -p Test1.zip REFSCAN1.PCX PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 7.00 [Jan 29 2012] Copyright(c) 1998-2012 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version Remainder: This is unregistered version of PACL. Please register at http://www.p owerarchiver.com Press <enter>to continue. Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2 Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive: C:\PACL_Test\Amiga\Test1.zip preparing to compress... adding: REFSCAN1.PCX --> Done. [100%] All OK C:\PACL_Test\Amiga></enter>Looks like it working properly. Now I try test the created archive to check that the password is set correctly.
C:\PACL_Test\Amiga>paext -t Test1.zip PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Version 7.00 [Jan 29 2012] Copyright(c) 1998-2012 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version Remainder: This is unregistered version of PACL. Please register at http://www.p owerarchiver.com Press <enter>to continue. Archive Extr.---ZIP,ZIPX,7Z,CAB,LHA,ARJ,RAR,ACE,TAR,GZ,BZ2,UUE,ZOO,B64,YENC,... Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.com Archive --> C:\PACL_Test\Amiga\Test1.zip [ZIP] testing: REFSCAN1.PCX Enter password for REFSCAN1.PCX: aaa *** Message: Invalid password aaa Enter password for REFSCAN1.PCX: aa"a --> OK [100%] C:\PACL_Test\Amiga></enter>PACL works the same in 7.00 b1 as in 6.02. It’s possible to use quote in a password as long as you put the password in a text file.
Kind Regards
Micke -
Thanks Micke!
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this is due to the CL, we can not use all the characters in command prompt due to its limitations, so we have to use password list if you really want to be creative.
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Thanks for the info and since it’s working when putting the password in a textfile.
Kind Regards
Micke
