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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
7zip Problem
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:mad: When unzipping a 7zip file (.7z) containing many thousands of files, PowerArchiver just shuts down part way through without extracting all the files. This is really crap. I can’t believe that this was tested. :mad:
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can you post your 7zip file here. as for the comment i think its unfair. Well pa do not create the 7zipp dll that allows compnaies too extract or create 7zip files, so it most proably is a 7zip dll issue. Its a new format and is being developed. Thanks for reporting it but don’t blame pa as they have the best support for it outside of the 7zip file manager… Can the 7zip file manager work ok on your 7zip file if so it could be a adll or pa problem. which program created the 7zip file.
To give no details of how you created it and what version of pa your using and what is contained in the file and not to upload it here for testing is vurtilaly imposible to determin the problem or even how to fix it. Bear this in mind when rubbishing something. What system are you using etc.
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To add to David’s post, PA’s 7-zip support has been tested greatly by the many alpha users. 7-zip is very memory intensive archiving format. Like David said, without more information, it will be hard to help you. It would be helpful if you would post your system specs also.
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Additionally, there are not many error messages incorporated into 7zip. What could have happened would be something like bad memory, bad hard drive, bad motherboard, no space, no space in temp folder, and probably many other things as well :-).
First thing I always suspect is memory since WinXP is behaving bad when it gets out of memory and just shuts off applications randomly and 7zip is using a lot of memory.
I know I tested it with some maximum 12 GB sized file and maximum of 120,000 files inside of it and it all went ok.
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Well guys, I know its not a problem with the 7zip file. How do I know this? Well, its simple really.
The file was created with PA and contains 1,135 files and contains 8 main subdirectories and other subdirectories contained underneath these. Its certainly a LOT less than 120,000 files claimed to be tested. I can extract the files without problems using 7zip v4.13 Beta itself. I’m not even going to bother submitting the 7z file as any newly created archive with lots of files causes the same problem.
I don’t think its memory issues, unless PA is getting its own memory usage stuffed as 7zip manager has no problems at all with extracting that, or any other, file. My machine is a P4 2.67GHz with 512MB RAM. Its running Win XP Pro.
I don’t want to rubbish any program, and I do like PA. But when something like this happens, I don’t think you can say that its well tested. It might well be the 7zip DLL file, but if so, why doesn’t PA incorporate the latest DLL file and issue a new version of PA ASAP? I’ve known about this problem for a while, but I thought that it would be fixed in the latest version, but its been around since 7zip support was implemented.
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Well guys, I know its not a problem with the 7zip file. How do I know this? Well, its simple really.
The file was created with PA and contains 1,135 files and contains 8 main subdirectories and other subdirectories contained underneath these. Its certainly a LOT less than 120,000 files claimed to be tested. I can extract the files without problems using 7zip v4.13 Beta itself. I’m not even going to bother submitting the 7z file as any newly created archive with lots of files causes the same problem.
I don’t think its memory issues, unless PA is getting its own memory usage stuffed as 7zip manager has no problems at all with extracting that, or any other, file. My machine is a P4 2.67GHz with 512MB RAM. Its running Win XP Pro.
I don’t want to rubbish any program, and I do like PA. But when something like this happens, I don’t think you can say that its well tested. It might well be the 7zip DLL file, but if so, why doesn’t PA incorporate the latest DLL file and issue a new version of PA ASAP? I’ve known about this problem for a while, but I thought that it would be fixed in the latest version, but its been around since 7zip support was implemented.
If you have had an issue with that since 7zip was implemented, then you should have reported it and it would have been fixed long time ago.
If you do not report it, it will not be fixed.
Now, you have to give us more information about the file since it certainly works fine here - we had 20 people testing that, and you are the first to report the issue out of more than a million of people who downloaded PA 9.xx so far.
So please send us more info about the file.
thanks,
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- Also - step by step on how to reproduce the issue would be great.
thanks,
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Well, I don’t know how much more info I can give.
Step by step is this: I have maximum compression settings for 7zip archives and right click on a bunch of files and then choose compress.
Have you guys heard of X-Setup Pro? Well, if you have, then install v6.6 and then go into Program Files\X-Setup Pro and compress all the files and subdirectories under that folder into a .7z file. Then try and extract these files to a different folder (c:\test) and you’ll notice that part way through the extraction, PA closes and not all the files have been extracted.
Now that’s about as much detail as I can provide. If you follow these steps, I KNOW you’ll get the problem. I don’t understand how so many people haven’t come across the problem. I find it a little hard to believe, as I’ve had a lot of problems with extracting ANY .7z file that contains a lot of files.
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Well, I don’t know how much more info I can give.
Step by step is this: I have maximum compression settings for 7zip archives and right click on a bunch of files and then choose compress.
Have you guys heard of X-Setup Pro? Well, if you have, then install v6.6 and then go into Program Files\X-Setup Pro and compress all the files and subdirectories under that folder into a .7z file. Then try and extract these files to a different folder (c:\test) and you’ll notice that part way through the extraction, PA closes and not all the files have been extracted.
Now that’s about as much detail as I can provide. If you follow these steps, I KNOW you’ll get the problem. I don’t understand how so many people haven’t come across the problem. I find it a little hard to believe, as I’ve had a lot of problems with extracting ANY .7z file that contains a lot of files.
So you are compressing via shell extensions, are you extracting via them as well? What exact extracting procedure did you use?
I did a quick test with folder with 3,000 files and everything worked fine, please provide more details, such as step by step reproduction of the issue.
thanks!
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this bug is in some 7zip programs like ultimatezip perhaps he used that and then powerarchiver as they look similar and they use a similar setup routine
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this bug is in some 7zip programs like ultimatezip perhaps he used that and then powerarchiver as they look similar and they use a similar setup routine
NO, I did NOT get confused. Besides, it’s pretty damn hard to get confused if you only have PowerArchiver and 7-Zip, and not UltimateZip installed.
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Have you guys heard of X-Setup Pro? Well, if you have, then install v6.6 and then go into Program Files\X-Setup Pro and compress all the files and subdirectories under that folder into a .7z file. Then try and extract these files to a different folder (c:\test) and you’ll notice that part way through the extraction, PA closes and not all the files have been extracted.
I tried doing this (with the latest X-Setup), and had no problems:
PowerArchiver version 7.20
X-Setup Pro version 7.1 (Eval) - this has 1040 files in 8 foldersI performed the archiving and extraction operations using the shell extensions (right mouse click).
I had the 7Zip compression set to ‘Ultra’
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I tried doing this (with the latest X-Setup), and had no problems:
PowerArchiver version 7.20
X-Setup Pro version 7.1 (Eval) - this has 1040 files in 8 foldersI performed the archiving and extraction operations using the shell extensions (right mouse click).
I had the 7Zip compression set to ‘Ultra’
Now I don’t know what to say to that. All I can say is that when I try that same operation, the problem occurs. But it does seem like there are numerous problems with the 7zip.dll file PA is using, so I’m sure I have a valid issue here.
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I’ve been testing the latest version. I 7-zip (ultra) a file with 5 folders and 967 files. Tested the file, tested fine. Uncompressed the file without any problems.
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Now I don’t know what to say to that. All I can say is that when I try that same operation, the problem occurs. But it does seem like there are numerous problems with the 7zip.dll file PA is using, so I’m sure I have a valid issue here.
eh, there were no “numerous” problems with 3.xx 7z dll, not many people reported issues but there were for sure some memory issues that we were able to reproduce.
Maybe on your computer there were more obvious than on others for whatever reason that may be. Only solution was the update to 4.xx dll which required our side of code to be completly rewritten which is why it had to wait for 9.5.
So it does not matter that it works on some computers, we know it didnt work on some for sure, and it works fine in 9.5, so only few days more :-).
closing the thread. thanks!
