Hello!
I’ve just created SFX-Archives both from ZIP and 7z-Archives and none has an Icon as it seems.
I use the new version 22.00.11.
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Basically I used powerarchiver context menus to zip up a folder then i used windows 11 own built in zip extractor via the context menu to extract all and this is where it throw up a fault. , I’m using windows 11 .
The file that was a problem in the zip that windows 11 could not extract was iva “babe” cotton.jpg
I know it has non standard quotes in it.
However I had winrar on the computer and tried the exact same method with their context menu compress to zip and then I extracted the file with windows own extract all context menu and it had no problems. This indicates that powerarchiver is doing something different with iva “babe” cotton.jpg compressing to zip.
Then I changed iva “babe” cotton.jpg to iva babe cotton.jpg and compressed it with powerarchiver and then tried it with windows 11 extract all and had no problems. It looks like powerarchiver is doing something to that one file that has quotes in it.
Please note that powerarchiver extracted both zip files with no problems, only windows built in zip extraction had the fault. Reason I’m letting people know in case they send zip files with special characters in files names to people who do not have powerarchiver.
When will a fix be implemented?
On installing the program I am getting the error message:
"Unable to execute file c:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\pashutil.exe
CreateProcess failed: code 2
The system cannot find the file specified"
This can’t be right!
I am using the latest official build of Windows 11
Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen.
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Buttons not aligned on configuration window.
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New version:
PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10:
Download:
https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220010.exe
New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.
Thanks everyone for your assistance!
New version:
PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11:
Download:
https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220011.exe
New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.
Thanks everyone for your assistance!
Just tried using the Modern (Windows 10) Icon set and seeing a few missing icons in both PowerArchiver Burner and PowerArchiver Encryption screens . They are all there in the Minimalistik icon set and the only difference I can see is the former is blue and the latter grey. In version 22.00.9
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Hi everyone, some good news about PowerArchiver… I’ve managed to get in touch with the original developer of PowerArchiver, Ivan Petrovic, and he has confirmed that the product is not dead or abandoned, in fact it is still very much alive! There has been a hiatus over the past months for various reasons, but that we should expect to see stuff coming through in the coming months (hopefully the next 2 months).
I had a large .tar file (a backed up WSL) and I want to delete a few directories and their contents from it using PA2023.
PA just destroys the whole archive as soon as I try to delete a directory, leaving it in a state where PA2023 won’t even open it any more.
I tried several times and also tried compressing it to .tar.xz instead - same result.
This should either actually work, or it should say operation not supported and do nothing.
Hello!
The regular version of PA 2023 is out for over 6 months now, but there is still no sign of the portable release.
(When) will there be one?
Thanks!
Hello!
Is there currently no portable version of PA2023 available?
(When) do you plan to release one?
Thanks!
Win 11 64 bit
I have some archives which have been encrypted, using the encrypt option either in pbs or when interactively creating a zip. When I open these, and look at files, I am asked for passwords, which I know, and then can view items or decrypt the files in the archive (tools>decrypt files).
However, when I use the Actions>Remove Archive Encryption (whether using the same zip or asking to write another), the routine shows progress bar to the end, but then just hangs i.e. “OK” never activates. All process information shows this stalled/hanging.
What can I do to sort this out?
For example:
Download this ZIP file: http://dslstats.me.uk/files/dslstats32W-6.5.zip
Everything in the ZIP file is in a directory “dslstats32W-6.5”.
However when I extract using right click “Extract Here” the name of the directory created is “2W-6.5” !
I am running PA 22.00.09 on Windows 11. I have seen the same happen with some other kinds of archive too.
If I compress a folder to a .pa using right click, Compress to folder.pa and use the new Windows 11 menu then the Options, Configuration, Miscellaneous, Use normal relative path setting is always enabled.
But I like this option disabled so I have to use the old style menu in order to get PA to compress a folder in the way I wish.
PA 22.00.09
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PA can't extract; XXX does…#2
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#1 is here:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=331I’m using the latest version of PA: 9.10.06
download this file:
http://www.mlin.net/files/Clipomatic20.zip [96KB]then uncompress it, you’ll have another file named Clipomatic.EXE [111KB]; it’s a self-extracting ZIP archive.
try to extract it with PowerArchiver…it will fail: “Error reading ZIP file” :(
use WinR**, it will extract it smoothly…what’s the problem, this time?
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Hi,
this file is badly created ZIP SFX, and is out of spec. As discussed before, zip engine (dynazip) hates zip files with bad headers.
Zip repair tool works fine on this file and will help you to recreate an proper zip archive out of it!
thanks,
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got that.
let me say that the normal user, who doesn’t come to this forum nor knows of its existence…how can he imagine about the bad header-thing?
he will just see that WinR** works, PA does not…
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I hope there are few other things that PA does and other dont :-).
We cant do anything with badly created zip archives except provide the tool that fixes them and we do and it does, so it works :-).
thanks and have happy holidays!
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I hope there are few other things that PA does and other dont :-).
We cant do anything with badly created zip archives except provide the tool that fixes them and we do and it does, so it works :-).
thanks and have happy holidays!
I think I have a good idea: I could not think about trying to correct the zip file via the proper tool of PA…why don’t you create a visual hint for that?
for example, when the error win pops up, it could go “error reading zip file. try correcting it via the Repair Archive tool” (something like that)
what do you think?
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Good idea.
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Good idea.
I’m happy you like it! :)
btw, I have updated to 9.11.01…and now PA correctly extracts the file! so…how’s that, if you changed nothing about the handling of bad headers?
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Hi,
this file is badly created ZIP SFX, and is out of spec. As discussed before, zip engine (dynazip) hates zip files with bad headers.
Zip repair tool works fine on this file and will help you to recreate an proper zip archive out of it!
thanks,
The ZIP repairing tool works good BUT… you’ll first have to rename Clipomatic.EXE to clipomatic.zip for it to work on the file.
In fact, the ZIP repairing tool doesn’t allow you to choose anything else than ZIP files.
It would be good if it could directly get exe sfx files as well…what do you think?
(I think I’m going to put it in the wishlist as well…)
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You just enter . into the filename field and it will show you all the files in that folder, if you select that SFX archive, it will “fix it” even if it is an EXE.
Problem with putting general “*.exe” in there is that, obviously, it would show both SFX archives and all other EXE files. While you might know the difference, an average user might not :-).
thanks,
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You just enter . into the filename field and it will show you all the files in that folder, if you select that SFX archive, it will “fix it” even if it is an EXE.
Problem with putting general “*.exe” in there is that, obviously, it would show both SFX archives and all other EXE files. While you might know the difference, an average user might not :-).
thanks,
right, but the average user would never guess to put the . to be shown all files…I guess I’m more than an average user, but I couldn’t think of that simple trick! the normal user should be assisted in the largest way, I believe…
and don’t forget that the tool’s named “Zip repair”…so one can’t promptly guess that it can be useful also with exe sfx archives…