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).
The Windows 11 context menu for PowerArchiver on normal files (to be compressed, etc.) is now showing multiple tiers with two identical menus. See attached captures of the issue:
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Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
OS build 26100.2605
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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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.
IMF Files and Drag & Drop Interface
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How do you stop PA from automatically opening up the drag and drop interface? The only way I can open a .IMF file is to full open PA and then tell it to open the file. It then displays the contents and will extract it. I do this quite often, it’s a headache. If I could just do file/open archive with PA on right click without having it automatically open the drag and drop to add files, life would be great.
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thanks for the report!
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are these zip files or?
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are these zip files or?
.imf files are compressed files for IncrediMail, they are made from .cab files. I can extract them with PA if I open PA first. If I just try to right mouse click and say open with PA, like you can with WinZip, it brings up the drag and drop window to add files for compression, which is totally wrong.
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yeah, thats an bug…
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yeah, thats an bug…
grins That doesn’t do me much good. I’ve got 3 different archivers, and I really only want 1 of them installed, and preference is Power Archiver. When can we expect an update patch?
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well since we are just doing 11.70 very soon, this seems like it could make it in… so within 10 days or so… it is simple fix really, PA doesnt understand it is an cab file so it tries to create new archive…
thanks for reporting it!
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well since we are just doing 11.70 very soon, this seems like it could make it in… so within 10 days or so… it is simple fix really, PA doesnt understand it is an cab file so it tries to create new archive…
thanks for reporting it!
Phew, I can hardly wait! :)
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i wish things always moved so fast :-). With version schedules, sometimes fixes might take months. Hopefully we solved that with our new patchbeam system so we can deliver more updates over the same time.
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It would ber bnice if we could associate a file extention to any archive that pa can handle like we can wiorth the plugins that way this problem would be solved for future problems
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You can now open IMF files properly by right click> open with> PowerArchiver, in RC2…
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You can now open IMF files properly by right click> open with> PowerArchiver, in RC2…
It’s working, thank-you! Well, it’s working for the .imf files. But, any time I just want to open it up by clicking on the PA icon, it auto pops up an Open Archive menu. Is there a way to turn that off. I don’t always want to open and archive.
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I am not sure that i follow you, when i do it, open window doesnt open up?
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maybe you activated some option, like Config> Misc> Show open archive on PA startup.
I bet that is it :-)
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maybe you activated some option, like Config> Misc> Show open archive on PA startup.
I bet that is it :-)
Yeppers, that was it, thank-you! Things are working really well now. :)
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to solve this problem in the future it would be nice to beable to associate an extention with an archive format.
this will solve problems when pa can’t recognise a format as it seems pa uses the . ext to recognise formats unlike its freeware days when it could detect a format that had the wrong extesion. oh well with progress you loose good features