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Converting an archive to .zip (using both the “Deflate (.zip, compatible)” and “Store” compression methods) always creates a .zipx file instead.
pa-convert-zip-1.jpg
pa-convert-zip-2.jpgUsing the “Store” method sometimes creates a .zip file; I have seen it happen just now, but I cannot reproduce it.
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Good morning,
I have been using all compression programs for over 20 years, I have always found Winrar very easy to use when I create a self-extracting archive, even 7-zip is simple, “right click” and “create self-extracting archive”, because on powerarchiver it must be like this confused ?
It doesn’t just create the archive, it opens a page where I have to select the file again, what kind of archive, which folder to create it, etc … you should learn from your competitors how to make life easier! -
Hi,
So refer this screenshot:
image_2020-12-30_115129.png
The properties panel that you see, is what I tried to compress, using PA, with following settigs:
Extreme Strong optimize
https://forums.powerarchiver.com/assets/uploads/files/1609079025475-image_2020-12-27_195344.pngThe process was stuck at 0% with no progress for over 8 Hours:
PA.png
Then the usual, clicking will make it go not responding.
So, I could not get the files compressed using PA.
I tried 7zip, and it worked, so that’s 1 issue.
PA shows incorrect original(before compression) size of total contents.
Refer the first screenshot.
folder’s size is shown correctly in 7ZIP
but not in powerarc.this happens with every archive, whether they are compressed in PA or not, whether it has only 1 file, or multiple files inside multiple directory.
Neither does the archive property panel shows original content’s size.
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Hi,
So my rig is as below:
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4720HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (Turbo 3.7GHz)
RAM: 16 Gigs DDR3
Samsung SSD 860 EVO
Windows 10 pro for workstations x64, freshly installed on 22nd Dec 2020, and updated.
PA freshly downloaded on same day, so it’s 2021 x.x.62 versionPA Stuck.png
Issue and reproduction:
If you start a compression, and if it’s mid way anywhere or even started, and you try to cancel it, the window will get stuck there, another click or key press will make the window not responding, then, and more will make windows to collect logs for crash, and the process will be terminated by windowsOn the other hand.
If the process is mid way, and if you try to pause it, the compression, CPU utilization, RAM usage will stay/increase as if the compression if still going on, the whole process will take it’s course, instead of doing what we clicked on.
So, both pause and cancel buttons are useless.
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I recently installed PA 2021. But the PowerArchiver Starter, for my backups, keeps running at high CPU usage, I have to keep killing it, its running about 46% constantly.
I have Windows 10 Pro, 20H2, build 19042.662
Any ideas would be helpful.
Thanks
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Just installed 2021 v20.00.63
Now, when I add to queue, with or without using always use queue.
The powerarc starter opens up in notification bar.
and that’s it, no matter how many files I add to queue, no compression will start.
I also cannot double click or right click the icon.
If i end task for this, and disable queuing, compression works fine, just that I have to manually start individual tasks.
it’s quite ironic that you guys took whole year to fix one issue, in this versions, which completely broke the queuing feature.
Did you guys test it before releasing?
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Hi,
You can obtain the original file from here:
https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/in/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/lenovo-y-series-laptops/y50-70-notebook-lenovo/80ej/59428436/cb32343883/downloads/driver-list/component?name=Power%20Management
For Lenovo Y50-70 win 7 x64 bit, power management, get lenovo energy management
Run the exe it will extract the installable drivers to C:\drivers
I tried to compress the whole folder using PA using following parameters:
Extreme, strong optimize.
image_2020-12-27_195344.pngThis resulted in negative compression.
However same file is compressed by 7zip alpha, with positive compression:
PA Negative compression.png
I understand that there are different algorithms, parameters used, and totally different software with unique sets of logics programmed, but see if compression algo can be optimized for such files.
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Over the last few months, I’ve been trying to track down the cause of a hanging bug in PA.
I have found a reliable test case (on my computer at least).I am trying to extract the folders/files from: https://github.com/codereader/DarkRadiant/releases/download/2.9.0/windeps.7z
By selecting both folders, then dragging over to a Windows Explorer window on another HDD.
I’m not sure what causes this but this just doesn’t do anything, progress bar appears, but nothing happens.
PA shows about 5% CPU utilization and I’ve left this going all night and it never does anything.
It doesn’t always happen, but this morning this is reliably failing for me.
The folder I’m dragging to is under Git source control, but this also happens when dragging into other folders also, but not always, sometimes it works.If I do a regular extraction and use the dialog box to select the location to extract to, that always works.
Windows 10 64bit Pro 20H2 (19042.630)
Ryzen 3900X
Anti Virus is built in Windows Security only.I captured a dump of the running process if that helps: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WLzHG_fOAMtzGMMFLHlIElnQXhsoPyYd/view?usp=sharing
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I have just installed 2021, but seems to have similar issues to 2019. If you move the app between differen monitors (with different resolutions) the app does not automatically adjust accordingly, so on one monitor I have the app is too big for the screen, whereas on another monitor it only takes up a small fraction of the screen.
This was worse with 2019, where the fonts were totally screwed up, making the app unusable. This seems better in 2021, but still not working properly. -
Hi.
I have noticed after updating PowerArchiver through PatchBeam to 20.00.63, after the installer finished and I recheck for updates, it still tells me that I have version 20.00.62 installed and prompts to download 20.00.63 again.
This also happens when I install from the offline setup file powarc200063.exe ( https://powerarchiverdl.cachefly.net/2021/powarc200063.exe ). It still installs version 20.00.62 and the process goes over and over again.
Also, in PowerArchiver About screen I see version 20.00.62 but in Programs and Features in Windows 10, version 20.00.63 is displayed as being installed.
Can someone check and see if they experience similar behavior?
Thank you!
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When I double click on a file within an archive the file gets temporarily extracted to being opened with the external program. When I now go back to the windows explorer and want to open another archive while the file from the first archive is still being extraceted, a new window of power archiver opens and immediatly closes. It opens and closes the new window repeatedly until the extraction of the file from the first archive is completed.
I use the option that power archiver opens a new tab when another archive is opened.
This happend with version 20.00.60. I wanted to update it to 20.00.63 as shown in the update window but it just updates to 20.00.62. It still shows that 20.00.63 is available but never seem to update to that version. The bug still exists though.
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I have some large zip files (~ 40 MB) with a lot of html files. When I double click on one of them in the archive, it takes a long time (eg 20 sec) for the file to be extracted and opened in the browser.
I am using version 19.00.59.
I discovered that the root cause of the problem is that all the files in the archive are extracted to the temporary dir before the selected file is launched.
It does not appear to happen with other file types (such as pdf) nor when dragging a html file into the browser.
I think I recall this issue being raised by someone else, but could not find it.
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On PowerArchiver 2021 (20.00.60) and windows 10, Both options in the windows explorer shell extension, “Compress to …zip” and “Compress to …zipx” create a .zipx file. ¿Its this intended?
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My slow ring still reads as 19.00.59… will it ever offer an update to 2021 or is that something I must do manually?
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Hello there,
I was installing-uninstalling and reinstalling PA 2021 due to another bug when I noticed a minor popup “bug” if it is considered a bug, regarding application association with recommended formats.
During PA installation you get to choose those options
Installation 1.pngI have ticked Associate PA with recommended formats
Installation completes and when you open PA the defult theme is Windows Ribbon.
When I changed it to Classic Theme, PA restarts for changes to take effect and then I get the below popup (Sorry I have a greek system)
It asks: Do you want PA to associate with recommended formats now?
Options: Associate for all users and Never show again.
Popup 2.pngI could swear that once I was changing themes and icons all the time to see which one I prefered and also toggling PA.exe to run as admin and windows compatibility mode and got this popup twice or tripple times.
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If I the Configuration > View > Standard > Disable Tabs option is checked, when double clicking inside archives on files supported by the internal viewer (PDF, JPEG etc.) they are opened in associated application rather than on a new tab in PA internal viewer, which is expected behavior.
Next, if the Configuration > Miscellaneous > General > Reuse PA Windows is unchecked, when double clicking on archives associated with PA in Explorer they are opened in new PA instance when there is another one already running, which is expected behavior.
But when Configuration > View > Standard > Disable Tabs option is checked AND Configuration > Miscellaneous > General > Reuse PA Windows is unchecked, when double clicking inside archives on archive files they are opened in the same instance of PA with no way to get back to the parent archive. I would expect, that when the user doesn’t want to use tabs AND want to use multiple PA instances, that in such case double clicking on archive located inside another archive, the second one would open in a new PA window. -
I’ve made the sections of the output bold to indicate where the typo is.
Version 7 output
Commands:a : add files to archive (default)
u : update files to archive
h : freshen files in archive
m : move files to archive (files only)
d : delete files from archiver : recurse subfolders
Version 9 output…
p|P : store relative Pathnames|store full Pathnames
PP : store full Pathnames including drive
c[0,1,2,10,11,13,15,17,19,l,p,w,b,d,z] : set compression level
(0 - store; 1 - normal ; 2 - maximal)
(10 - store, 11 - super fast, 13 - fast, 15 - normal, 17 - max, 19 - ultra
(l - use LZMA, p - use PPMd, w - use WavPack, b - use BZIP2, d - use Deflate
(z - use optimized compression method based on file exstension)
g : create Solid archive (7Z format only)
Commands:a : add files to archive (default)
u : update files to archive
h : freshen files in archive
m : move files to archive (files only)
d : delete files from archiver : recurse subfolders
P : store full Pathnames
PP : store full Pathnames including drive
p : store relative Pathnames
c[0,1,2,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,u,l,p,w,b,d,z] : set compression level
(0 - store; 1 - normal ; 2 - maximal)
(10 - store, 11 - super fast, 13 - fast, 15 - normal, 17 - max, 19 - ultra
(l - use LZMA, p - use PPMd, w - use WavPack, b - use BZIP2, d - use Deflate
(o - use LZMA2
(u - use pLZMA4, f - use ZSTD, k - use PPMd_sh, e - use Deflate64
(z - use optimized strong compression method based on file exstension)
(x - use optimized fast compression method based on file exstension)
(m<filters|methods> - use custom set of filters and methods for .PA archive
y[r|b|d|x|p|d] - filters reflate, bcj2, x64flt, rep, delta
ypc<size> - custom rep c size
ypm<size> - custom rep mem size
yrx<size> - custom reflate zlib level (1-9)
yt{x} - number of threads
ya - debug mode
mt : set multithreading on
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I’ve found a bug when extracting files from a 7ZIP file, specifically when you tell PowerArchiver to extract only some files and folders from it. This is where the bug exists. You can tell PowerArchiver to extract only certain files but then it proceeds to extract the whole file and not just what you wanted.
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Sorry if I’m asking this in the wrong place.
Can Powerarchiver create images of entire drives (e.g. C: system drive) to create drive image backups?
Thanks,
Tim
Extracting files but no files exist??
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Hey there… Here is my issue. I have around 70gigs of PowerArchiver files… I start the extraction… I can see the folders being created, and can see the actual files being extracted. Thousands of JPGs, MOV, AVI, etc files that are flying by the status box during the extraction. Then after about 2 hours of extraction time, it completes… Yet, NO files showup or seem to exist???
Am I missing something?
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I don’t have an answer to your question. I’ll leave that to the right people. But could you add more info to help them.
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I will give as much info as I know. I am on Windows 7, and I have a PowerArchiver 10 archive that consists of 144 files marked Z1 - Z144. Each file is 700 megs. There is one other file called media.zip that is 305 megs. I am extracting starting from the 305 meg file. When I choose extract, it sorts the folder, lists 954.000 files. I choose to extract to my hard drive.
The extraction process takes around 2.5 hours. In the status box, I can see where it says it is extracting the actual files. I see filenames… When it finishes, it correctly extracts every folder which is around 15-30k different folders…
Problem is. The folders are there, but not a single file appears in any of the folders… Obviously we are talking a pretty large archive… But I see the files extracting correctly in the status window, but when all is said and done, no files are ever extracting.
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I will give as much info as I know. I am on Windows 7, and I have a PowerArchiver 10 archive that consists of 144 files marked Z1 - Z144. Each file is 700 megs. There is one other file called media.zip that is 305 megs.
Sorry, need a bit more.
Do you mean Powerarchiver 10 or PowerArchiver 2010?
If you open Help/About what is the version number?I am extracting starting from the 305 meg file. When I choose extract, it sorts the folder, lists 954.000 files. I choose to extract to my hard drive.
Is this from within the PowerArchiver Window (GUI) or via the exporer context menu (right click on the zip file)?
Have you tried to use PowerArchiver “test” function?
The extraction process takes around 2.5 hours. In the status box, I can see where it says it is extracting the actual files. I see filenames. When it finishes, it correctly extracts every folder which is around 15-30k different folders.
Problem is. The folders are there, but not a single file appears in any of the folders. Obviously we are talking a pretty large archive. But I see the files extracting correctly in the status window, but when all is said and done, no files are ever extracting.
OK - the problem is clear, but not necessarily the cause.
Don’t take it the wrong way but we will assume that you have enough free disk space for the uncompression (about 100 GB) :D
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Another thing - are the folder and/or filenames using “Unicode” characters (eg non-english language characters)?
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one million files ;-).
Was the archive also created with PA2010?
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additionally, it would be swell to know what settings were used to create archive, so we can try to reproduce the issue… I am assuming uploading archive is out of question ;-).
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and definitely check how much free space is there in temp and destination drive.
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I can find out what it was created with. My web developer created it from my Windows web server, which is why it is so huge.
Uploading it somewhere would be impossible. It took me like 2.5 days to grab the files using broadband.
I might not have enough disk space to open it to be honest… I have around 154 gigs of free space, so I was really kind of assuming I had enough space. I figured that during the entire 2.5 hours of extraction time, that as I was watching the filenames being extracted in the progress window, that some files would write, even if I eventually ran out of disk space. The folders were being written, just not the files.
I do appreciate everyone’s help on this. You have no idea how valuable these files are, and I have no backup other than this powerarchiver files that currently… don’t seem to want to extract.
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and to followup. I never get any sort of error message. It finishes to extraction complete to 100% without any sort of error. It just returns cleaning to the PowerArchiver 2010 program when complete.
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it is hard to say like this - maybe also some kind of permissions issue, what OS do you use?
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It is installed on Windows 7… extracting to my internal hard drive… It would not bother me as much as it does if I got some sort of error message, or if I didnt see the actual files flying by during the extraction process in the progress window… I mean literally I see the correct files… but they never actually write to the drive… I know I have said that a million times… Just so frustrating on files that are so darn important.
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What happens if you try a partial extraction - e.g. just one folder?
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did you try starting PA as administrator? maybe it is some kind of permissions issue (you should get error with it but….).
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or just one file…. small file.
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The problem is. .that even though my computer has 3 gigs of RAM, which I guess really is not a lot anymore, and it is such a huge number of archived files and a huge size PA tends to “stop responding” every once in awhile. It sticks so to speak, but then starts running without issues…
So maybe it is a size or ram issue on my end… But the folders seem to write fine… just not the files… In theory, I assume that it should write the files in the folder, after the folder is created, and then move to the next folder…
Maybe I am wrong…
But you have no idea how much I need these files… Could I be better off using a command prompt version of the software?
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You need to do this:
1. Start PA2010 by right clicking on PA icon and selecting Run As Administrator
2. Select single file and select extract to> Desktop.Just let it work. Since there are million files in archive, it might appear as if PA is not responding, but it is actually working in the background.
So just leave it be and let us know if that file has been extracted properly and we will go from there.
thanks,
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As we don’t have access to your archive and (as far as I know as another user) are unaware of existing problems which would cause this, you will have to help by answering what might appear to be “silly” or “non-relevant” questions - please be patient.
P.S. Be sure you have a copy of the archive for safety.
Still might be relevant
@TBGBe:Do you mean Powerarchiver 10 or PowerArchiver 2010?
If you open Help/About what is the version number?P.S. 3GB ram should be plenty (even with Windows 7) :p
But with such a large archive things will appear to “hang” occaisionally - don’t “kill” PA, let it run. -
Believe me, I have no problem answering questions that are silly. Right now I will answer any question you ask including my eye color to get this archive opened. I tried opening that way, and PA hung for 9 hours and never moved. When I say moved, I mean the progress bars never go above 0%… So I think that technique did end up freezing it up. I cant imagine 0% progress for 9 hours is working. Also for whatever it is worth, when I go into task manager to close it down. (I have done this more than once while trying to extract this) It is showing memory usage for PA between 800megs and 1.4 gigs of RAM being used.
Again I dont know if that has any bearing. The next thing I will try is to hook up an external drive with 1TB free and see if maybe it is a harddrive space issue.
I can attach some screenshots of the progress bar during actual extraction if that helps at all.
Brian
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It Might be worth you uninstalling PowerArchiver, deleting the Program Folders and Registry Values if you are comfortable in that and then reinstall the latest stable version.
That has helped some people in the past with issues like this. Obviosly that was them and not you but if you have not tried this method already just give it a go.
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Believe me, I have no problem answering questions that are silly. Right now I will answer any question you ask including my eye color to get this archive opened. I tried opening that way, and PA hung for 9 hours and never moved. When I say moved, I mean the progress bars never go above 0%… So I think that technique did end up freezing it up. I cant imagine 0% progress for 9 hours is working. Also for whatever it is worth, when I go into task manager to close it down. (I have done this more than once while trying to extract this) It is showing memory usage for PA between 800megs and 1.4 gigs of RAM being used.
Again I dont know if that has any bearing. The next thing I will try is to hook up an external drive with 1TB free and see if maybe it is a harddrive space issue.
I can attach some screenshots of the progress bar during actual extraction if that helps at all.
Brian
Might want to try with PACL to external drive… Use paext.exe and it will show you list of commands and examples. Download it from download page.
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The issue in this thread is actually my issue and I’d love to bounce some more ideas off of you guys to see if I can resolve my problem.
I’m on Windows 7 and PowerArchiver 2010. The archive was also created with PA2010.
I have 6GBs of RAM and I am only trying to move a few files from the archive, so I know I have enough space for that. Unless someone can confirm that I need to have space for all the files on the archive before I can move even one file?
I am able to load the main zip file and see the folders and files within that archive. I can even drag just one file from the archive into a new folder on my hard drive. I can preview all the files in the archive.
However, if I try to move say, 5 files, I end up with the same issue described above – 0% progress and Not Responding. Each time I try to restart the process, it takes 15-20 minutes to get the archive open and I try again with the same result.
