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Hello, I used the support form to ask this a couple weeks ago but never received a response. Perhaps here would be better? Here’s the issue:
Powerarchiver 2019 was locking up testing a .7z file so I looked for and found a new version (note- new version didn’t fix this- I ended up using 7-Zip itself. Archive was large and contained a ton of files)
Upon installing it, I was prompted to register it or “continue unregistered” so I logged into the website and used the order recovery option to get my new codes for PA2021. However, after cutting and pasting my name and registration code, upon restart when I click on the help button it still shows as unregistered (it did not show the nag dialog again). I tried two different codes (see below). I also tried installing again using the link in the email but there was no difference. Where do I go from here? Thanks.
Update: After a couple weeks it still hasn’t negged me, but continues to show as unregistered in the (?) area- will this stop working altogether soon?
OS: Windows 10 Pro version 2004
File installed: first used PA 2019 to check for and install update, then used link in email which downloaded powarc200073.exe and installed that.
Codes used: first tried the toolbox/english code in first email, then tried the standard/international code in second email
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Hello everyone
I hope that despite my poor control of English, you can understand me.
When compressing a file, by default the extension is included as part of the file name. for example, if the file is name.pdf, the compressed file will be name_pdf.zip.
Is there any way for the extensions not to be included in the compressed file name? As much as I have searched I don’t see such an option.
Thanks for your time
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Hi,
I’m using Convert Archives on a local folder of .zip files, converting them to .lzh files, and I’m finding that perhaps 1 in 75 files is actually converting and outputting a file. Even then, the .lzh file is incomplete, missing most of the source files.
The progress bars completes OK, say 75/75 files, but only one .lzh file exists in the output folder.
It seems to be the same with different source and output folders on both local and USB disk - I can’t see a pattern.
The files extract and compress (to .lzh) without issue on their own.
Is there a log file I can check please, to see why PA does not like these files as part of the batch conversion?
Thanks very much, Rich.
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I’m experiencing very slow extraction speed of multipart RAR files. For the first part the extraction is super fast but when PA reaches the part2.rar the extraction from there on gets super slow. PA needed for a 6,3 GB multipart archive 30 minutes to extract. I tested then with another program and it just took 70 seconds. I had this slow extraction speed with PA for quite a long time and I always thought that is maybe because of a high compression rate that the extraction would take longer. But it seems that only PA gets that slow.
I have lots of multipart archives that are 10+ GB and with PA it would be really time consuming. Is there any solution to this?
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Hi -
I have powerarchiver licenses for powerarchiver standard and toolbox (and also as a result for pro).
I can successfully register powerarchiver with my pro/toolbox codes, and it unlocks the majority of the content/features. However if I try and create a .pa style archive I get the registration popup saying I need PowerArchiver Pro (if I go to help/about I can verify I have the relevant version and it’s registered to me).
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Configuration:
Powerarchiver 2021 20.00.73
Windows 10 Education 10.0.19042 Build 19042When extracting gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz , Powerarchiver wrongly thinks some .exe files have a length of zero:
98773b3b-65c0-48fa-8cd4-d081b2e0adee-image.png
Once extracted:
D:\Temp\Powerarchiver\gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf\bin>dir *.exe Volume in drive D is DATA Volume Serial Number is 0E12-BCA2 Directory of D:\Temp\Powerarchiver\gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf\bin 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,391,599 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-addr2line.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ar.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-as.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,030,119 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,389,293 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++filt.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,027,513 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-cpp.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 4,040,503 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-dwp.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 391,769 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-elfedit.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-g++.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,026,926 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-10.2.1.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ar.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 609,607 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ranlib.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 2,165,533 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-dump.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 2,343,605 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-tool.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 2,450,233 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov.exe 2020-11-20 07:54 PM 9,605,899 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gdb.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 3,028,997 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gfortran.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,412,943 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gprof.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.gold.exe 2020-11-20 07:41 PM 25,546,567 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-lto-dump.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-nm.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objdump.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ranlib.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-readelf.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,393,083 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-size.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 1,392,464 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strings.exe 2020-11-20 07:10 PM 0 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strip.exe 32 File(s) 67,465,867 bytes 0 Dir(s) 1,002,422,431,744 bytes freeWhen the same archive is being extracted from a git bash session (after having installed git 2.30.1 for Windows 64 bit version from git-scm.com), the .exe files are extracted as expected:
xz -k -d gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz tar xf gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar cd gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf/bin ll *.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1391599 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-addr2line.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1421598 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ar.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 2028927 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-as.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3030119 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1389293 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-c++filt.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 3027513 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-cpp.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 4040503 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-dwp.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 391769 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-elfedit.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3030119 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-g++.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3026926 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-10.2.1.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ar.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-nm.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 609607 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-ranlib.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 3026926 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 2165533 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-dump.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 2343605 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov-tool.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 2450233 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gcov.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 9605899 Nov 20 19:54 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gdb.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 3028997 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gfortran.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1412943 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-gprof.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 4 User 197121 2572182 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 4 User 197121 2572182 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 4550029 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ld.gold.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 25546567 Nov 20 19:41 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-lto-dump.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1404945 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-nm.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1531656 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1991350 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-objdump.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1421598 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-ranlib.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1163376 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-readelf.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1393083 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-size.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 User 197121 1392464 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strings.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 2 User 197121 1531656 Nov 20 19:10 arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-strip.exe*The same archive file does extract properly under a native Linux Ubuntu 20.04 system, or under Windows 10 using the WSL2 Linux subsystem using xz and tar.
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Its a long time since people reported bugs like converter bug still no fix yet
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Hi,
I just saw, that on the Website, PowerArchiver 2021 20.00.73 is advertised as latest version. (Actually, the downloaded version says, it’s 20.00.70 in the about dialog)
But it still comes with the “red icon set” for preview versions and has some known unfixed bugs, as I read here.Is it sufficiently stable to be used on production systems?
Kind regards
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Hi I recently bought PowerArchiver and found some bugs and issues that I hit testing some of the features out.
If you are doing a backup and on the compression options screen its default is compression format is PA with no option to change disk spanning. If you change to 7-zip you can change disk spanning. If you change the disk spanning then move back to PA format the field for disk spanning disables but the option stays set to what you changed it to. When you do a backup it will use PA with files spanning but PowerArchiver says that its not a valid format when you open it. If PA can’t really do file spanning then this screen is allowing it.
I have attached an image where the progress bar is in the middle of the CD/DVD/BD Tools screen.
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I have a 7-Zip file I created using the backup tools doing an increment backup. It opens and extracts just fine but if you using the Test option PowerArchiver locks up. Link to file: Backup-2021-02-05-20-35-36 TEST LOCKUP.7z
On any Zip/PA/7-Zip process the pause and cancel buttons do not work. You have to hard kill the entire application to get out.
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There would be many of us with Intel Processors.
and they have their own optimized zlib algorithm, which can result in more efficiency if used combined with their hardware processor.
Reference:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/zlib-compression-whitepaper-copy.pdfCan we get the same Functionality Under Hardware Acceleration Feature?
Zlib is not the only feature that intel has included with their processor, there’s many, which if combined can result in efficient and better compression ratios.
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Hi,
After the batch archiving is complete, and if I click on whitespace of the PA app, I get this error.
PA Batch.png
I did check for ongoing process and ensured no archives were corrupt, It seems like activity did complete successfully but the error is shown for no reason, and only after clicking the whitespace.
Please see if this can be removed.
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I’m using the Kaspersky Total Security.
I have configured PA as exclusion as followed:
PA Exclusion.png
and also is set us trusted application
PA Trusted Application.png
Scenario:
My Antivirus likes to scan for everything, and it’s safeguarding behavior is to prevent the access to the file until the file is properly scanned for.
The issue:
PA when losses the access to file, it is stuck, consumes Resources, and never completes the process or throws any error
Recommendation:
PAStarter should also work as PAMonitor:
There should be a monitoring process, at least if I’m using queuing feature, that should check for never ending compression processes and terminate them so the queue can be little bit automated.Also,
There should be multiple attempts at retrying if PA loses access to or is denied, instead of having to see process was stuck for longer duration.Or, better, save the parameters I used for keeping the files in compression, and automatically restart the whole compression process after termination the same, of same folders and files set, this should happen in case if compression was stuck.
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If you use Queue Feature, you are not saving on space, you are just squeezing less.
Here’s explaination:
https://youtu.be/XcxG2wxyink
I did test the same on multiple files, and of different types.
It does have large difference for each large file you are trying to squeeze.
Folders with multiple files, just have no benefits if you use Queue Feature
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Hello!
I am using the portable version of PA2021. After switching from build 58 to 73 I have problems with the color-scheme:
While 58 behaves like expected and showed everything in light or dark colors according to the settings, 73 always shows the lower part of the window in dark colors, no matter whether I select automatic, light or dark.
This happens on a clean installation of 73 as well as on an update from build 58. I have attached two images generated on the same machine at the same time with the same settings. The upper shows build 73, the lower 58. Is it a bug or some changed setting I miss?
Thanks for help!
A.BorquePA2021_73.png PA2021_58.png
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Hello,
PowerArchiver Command Line 7 support file greater than 2 Go ?
Thanks
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If you have tabbed archive browsing(reuse same window for all archive opening)
and if you open two archives, and right click on older one to view properties it will only show of the recent archive that was opened, on all tabs/archivesupgraded to 20.0.73
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Hi.
I currently own the PowerArchiver Select - lifetime free upgrades and support for PowerArchiver Toolbox English license.
This license is active on 1 device. Does the license allow me to activate PowerArchiver on a second device that I own? Or do I need a separate license for that?
Thank you ! :)
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Hello!
While the installable version of PA 2021 has already received two updates and is at version 20.0.73 the portable version still remains at the initially released build 58. Are there plans to update that version, too?
Thanks for a reply!
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!