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    Missing Icons
    LuxorL

    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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    Security vulnerabilities in 7zip / Update for PowerArchiver and PACL libraries?
    BigMikeB

    Hi there,

    there were some security issues fixed in 7zip:
    https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1165/
    https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1164/

    As it seems, that PowerArchiver and PACL use the 7zip libraries, could you please update them to the latest version?

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    Virtual Drive
    E

    Hi,

    From where I get PAVD2023.EXE? PowerArchiver 2023 tries to open it.
    But it seems, it tries to download PAVD2021.EXE.

    Thanks

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    Better ZPAQ support
    W

    I noticed that the version of ZPAQ used is older than the latest released 7.15 https://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html also there seems to be a newer fork that adds several features https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz

    It would be useful to implement this latest version (it also maintains the same syntax and behavior as the latest official release if used the -715 flag) and add when opening a zpaq file a choice of the version of the files to show (e.g. as dummy folders represented the various versions present). Since any previous changes are stored with this format, it is possible to extract a snapshot of a certain date/version.

    Tech Support
    Bug with "Encrypt Archive" action
    W

    If I open a password-protected zipper file (created with WinRAR but I think that’s irrelevant), open it with PowerArchiver and run “Remove Encryption” on the same file, then reopen it and add a password with “Encrypt Archive,” the resulting archive will be protected with the old ZipCrypto algorithm and not AES as indicated.
    (this can be verified, for example, by trying to open the archive files with Windows Explorer, which does not support the AES algorithm)

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    PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files
    Brian GregoryB

    PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
    I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
    Discovered:
    a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
    b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files.

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    • Brian GregoryB
      Brian Gregory Alpha Testers
      last edited by

      Where si the release info for 11.70.10. In particular a list of the fixes between 11.70.07 and 11.70.10. I don’t want a repeat of the total disaster that was 11.70.07.

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      • spwolfS
        spwolf conexware
        last edited by

        what were the problems with 11.70.07 that you experienced? not many fixes or reported issues in these releases, but with patchbeam we can update quickly, but someone needs to report something!

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        • Brian GregoryB
          Brian Gregory Alpha Testers
          last edited by

          11.70.07 couldn’t create ZIP files without giving error messages, something along the lines of can’t create file.

          Windows XP SP3

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          • spwolfS
            spwolf conexware @Brian Gregory
            last edited by

            @Brian:

            11.70.07 couldn’t create ZIP files without giving error messages, something along the lines of can’t create file.

            Windows XP SP3

            that was probably something very specific, maybe bad install or something, as nobody reported it and we had it out for long time… please check with this version and let us know!

            If it doesnt work, i promise we will fix it within a week! With patchbeam we can now issue fast updates, we dont need to wait because updates take only 1 second…

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            • Brian GregoryB
              Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @spwolf
              last edited by

              11.70.10:

              Right click on “D:\This American Life” and choose Compress to “This American Life.zip”

              The following two errors appear, though I now notice the ZIP file appears to have created anyway!?!?!?

              The structure of the PowerArchiver software must be a real mess for these errors to occur and then it goes on to create the archive anyway.
              attachment_p_24021_0_paerr1.png
              attachment_p_24021_1_paerr2.png

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              • Brian GregoryB
                Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @Brian Gregory
                last edited by

                Oh and has that stupid thing that’s been in the install program been fixed yet where it doesn’t shut down PASTARTER.EXE before upgrading so you end up with two of them running after upgrading. I’ve got so used to closing it manually before upgrading that I never remember to test if I still need to or not. It’s also a right pain that one isn’t offered the option of leaving all the options in the registry when uninstalling, this always causes me massive panic on the occasions when I upgrade and find I need to uninstall and go back to a previous version and find it’s all set up weirdly, not how I’m used to it.

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                • spwolfS
                  spwolf conexware
                  last edited by

                  does this happen with only that folder or only when root is D:\ or with any file anywhere?

                  as to the updates, we have new update system, it preserves all the settings and takes only an second or two to update.

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                  • Brian GregoryB
                    Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @spwolf
                    last edited by

                    @spwolf:

                    does this happen with only that folder or only when root is D:\ or with any file anywhere?

                    I’ve gone back to 11.64.01 now but as far as I remember I tried a variety of locations with 11.70.07 and the errors always occurred.

                    @spwolf:

                    as to the updates, we have new update system, it preserves all the settings and takes only an second or two to update.

                    But there are bound to be more occasions when I have to uninstall and go back to the previous version.
                    Will I be able to get a copy of the install exe as part of the update process or will I have to download it separately?

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                    • spwolfS
                      spwolf conexware
                      last edited by

                      you have to download it separately, from the website… updates are just patches now, usually a lot less than 1 MB in size… but if need be, you can always download it from our website.

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                      • spwolfS
                        spwolf conexware
                        last edited by

                        did you try restarting your computer after installation? Maybe shell was not updated?

                        Anyone else with XP can chime in on this issue?

                        thanks!

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                          Mili conexware
                          last edited by

                          tested here on XP, worked fine

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                          • TBGBeT
                            TBGBe @Mili
                            last edited by

                            Never seen this problem (zip file on 11.70.10).
                            However, I would like some clarification of the problem…

                            a) “This American Life” - is this a file or folder or what?
                            b) D:\ - is this a second hard disk or partition or CD/DVD or what? (I tried single txt and single avi and both files to zip on USB drive F:\ with no problems)

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                            • Brian GregoryB
                              Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @spwolf
                              last edited by

                              @spwolf:

                              did you try restarting your computer after installation? Maybe shell was not updated?
                              thanks!

                              Maybe not.
                              I should be able to try again soon.

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                              • Brian GregoryB
                                Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @TBGBe
                                last edited by

                                @TBGBe:

                                a) “This American Life” - is this a file or folder or what?

                                It’s a folder containing 3 MP3 files.
                                @TBGBe:

                                b) D:\ - is this a second hard disk or partition or CD/DVD or what?

                                D: is my second internal hard drive.

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                                • spwolfS
                                  spwolf conexware @Brian Gregory
                                  last edited by

                                  @Brian:

                                  Maybe not.
                                  I should be able to try again soon.

                                  also please check if it works in main PowerArchiver or not, that should tell us is it something related to shell extensions or not…

                                  thanks!

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                                  • spwolfS
                                    spwolf conexware
                                    last edited by

                                    Brian, did you have an chance to check this out? Thank you!

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                                    • Brian GregoryB
                                      Brian Gregory Alpha Testers
                                      last edited by

                                      Sorry for delay. I’ve tried a few tests.
                                      As always when I deviate from my normal usage patterns with PowerArchiver some more weird behaviour has shown up.

                                      1. Installing with the .exe setup file still leaves two PASTARTERs running!! I can’t believe this, it’s literally years since I first noticed this.

                                      2. Rebooting after installation makes no difference to the original errors I reported (at the top of this thread).

                                      3. Creating the archive from inside PA does not produce the errors I reported originally but I had a great deal of difficulty working out how to produce an archive from within PA. Pressing New, choosing the type I want and typing the name without .ZIP on the end (why would I type .zip when I’ve already said I want a .zip?) looks like it’s working but afterwards the archive isn’t there. Typing the name with the .zip does work however.

                                      4. I noticed that if I already have PA running and open on my desktop and then right click a directory in a nearby explorer wiindow and choose “Compress to directory.zip” everything locks up and I have to use Task Manager to kill off two POWERARC.EXE processes before I can continue using my PC.

                                      5. The Add files dialogue looks pretty odd, leading me at first to think it was corrupt but maybe it’s just designed really weirdly. I don’t like it anyway. See attachment.
                                      attachment_p_24118_0_image1.png

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                                      • spwolfS
                                        spwolf conexware
                                        last edited by

                                        there is nothing we can do in 1., that has been solved and Vista and above as they have Windows Restart Manager functionality which will close the PAStarter properly.

                                        As to the other issues, can you send me please your HKCU\Software\PowerArchiver key, zipped to support at conexware dot com. It could be something specific to the settings you have been using.

                                        We will take an look then with your settings and see what the issue is!

                                        thanks

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                                        • Brian GregoryB
                                          Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @spwolf
                                          last edited by

                                          @spwolf:

                                          … can you send me please your HKCU\Software\PowerArchiver key, zipped to support at conexware dot com. …

                                          Done.
                                          It’s been assigned Ticket ID: 17249

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                                          • spwolfS
                                            spwolf conexware
                                            last edited by

                                            Got it! Thank you, we will be doing some tests tomorrow.

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                                            • spwolfS
                                              spwolf conexware
                                              last edited by

                                              It was due to normal relative path option, here is the fixed version, didnt have much time to test it yet:
                                              http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2010/powarc117103.exe

                                              Can you please take an look and tell us if you can compress the folders now? Thanks!

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                                              • spwolfS
                                                spwolf conexware
                                                last edited by

                                                I also see that you are avid PA user :). I liked your settings a lot.

                                                Do you want to become our alpha tester? Maybe then issues like this would not happen :)

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                                                  davidsplash @spwolf
                                                  last edited by

                                                  sorry to ask this but it seems you are trying to write to a cd or dvd am i right as d: is usually used for a cd or dvd drive that could be your problem as you dont have access to that drive.

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                                                  • LuxorL
                                                    Luxor Alpha Testers @davidsplash
                                                    last edited by

                                                    He has already said that it’s his second HD.
                                                    @Brian:

                                                    D: is my second internal hard drive.

                                                    Windows 10 Home 64-bit
                                                    Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
                                                    12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz

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                                                    • spwolfS
                                                      spwolf conexware @spwolf
                                                      last edited by

                                                      @spwolf:

                                                      It was due to normal relative path option, here is the fixed version, didnt have much time to test it yet:
                                                      http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2010/powarc117103.exe

                                                      Can you please take an look and tell us if you can compress the folders now? Thanks!

                                                      dont miss this :)

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                                                      • spwolfS
                                                        spwolf conexware
                                                        last edited by

                                                        Well it really would help if I gave proper link:
                                                        http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2010/powarc1170.exe

                                                        :-)

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                                                        • Brian GregoryB
                                                          Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @spwolf
                                                          last edited by

                                                          @spwolf:

                                                          Well it really would help if I gave proper link:
                                                          http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2010/powarc1170.exe

                                                          :-)

                                                          Yes that seems much better.

                                                          The original zipping a folder from right click menu giving spurious error messages problem is fixed.

                                                          I think
                                                          @Brian:

                                                          4. I noticed that if I already have PA running and open on my desktop and then right click a directory in a nearby explorer wiindow and choose “Compress to directory.zip” everything locks up and I have to use Task Manager to kill off two POWERARC.EXE processes before I can continue using my PC.

                                                          is fixed too.

                                                          Yes I could be an alpha tester as long as you don’t mind if I often don’t have time to do much testing.

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                                                          • Brian GregoryB
                                                            Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @Brian Gregory
                                                            last edited by

                                                            Also, if the Add Files dialogue I didn’t like that way by design I’d urge you to at least move the ‘Remove’ button somewhat to the left so that the scroll arrows in the file list aren’t covered. At the moment it actually sticks out beyond the right hand edge of the file list.
                                                            Thanks.
                                                            attachment_p_24156_0_paadd1.png
                                                            attachment_p_24156_1_paadd2.png

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                                                            • spwolfS
                                                              spwolf conexware
                                                              last edited by

                                                              We logged that, folder issue was priority… Happy New Year!

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                                                              • Brian GregoryB
                                                                Brian Gregory Alpha Testers
                                                                last edited by

                                                                ‘Overlapping buttons’ corrected nicely in 11.71.04.
                                                                Thank you.

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                                                                • spwolfS
                                                                  spwolf conexware
                                                                  last edited by

                                                                  thank you for reporting it!

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                                                                  • Brian GregoryB
                                                                    Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @Brian Gregory
                                                                    last edited by

                                                                    @Brian:

                                                                    11.70.10:

                                                                    Right click on “D:\This American Life” and choose Compress to “This American Life.zip”

                                                                    The following two errors appear, though I now notice the ZIP file appears to have created anyway!?!?!?

                                                                    The structure of the PowerArchiver software must be a real mess for these errors to occur and then it goes on to create the archive anyway.

                                                                    Why is this bug back in version 12.00.49?

                                                                    Are you deliberately trying to look incompetent?

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                                                                    • spwolfS
                                                                      spwolf conexware @Brian Gregory
                                                                      last edited by

                                                                      @Brian:

                                                                      Why is this bug back in version 12.00.49?

                                                                      Are you deliberately trying to look incompetent?

                                                                      we had some major changes to the zip engine as outlined in the blogs… what did you use previously, .41?

                                                                      Also, please do not be rude. There is no reason to be rude.

                                                                      thanks.

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                                                                      • Brian GregoryB
                                                                        Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @spwolf
                                                                        last edited by

                                                                        @spwolf:

                                                                        we had some major changes to the zip engine as outlined in the blogs… what did you use previously, .41?

                                                                        Also, please do not be rude. There is no reason to be rude.

                                                                        thanks.

                                                                        I only just managed to successfully upgrade from 11.71.

                                                                        Sorry if I was rude I just resent it when I’ve paid for software and it gives me so much aggravation. It took me several hours to get V12 installed at all. When I used the downloaded setup exe I kept getting an incomprehensible message about patchbeam1000.exe not being marked for installation with no indication of why I should care about this fact. I wasted a whole afternoon with the previous V12 and gave up and reverted to V11.71. I only got V12.00.49 installed by letting patchbeam do it’s stuff but it took hours so in the end I just had to kill it and I found it pretty much worked but had actually installed V12.00.41 but I was able to let patchbeam take me to V12.00.49.

                                                                        Bugs like this should not reappear. When the fix is done it should be commented in the code so that the same mistake won’t be made again.

                                                                        Unless of course you never actually found out what was wrong and just fiddled around until, say, whatever stray pointer was causing corruption happened to corrupt something less vital.

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                                                                        • spwolfS
                                                                          spwolf conexware @Brian Gregory
                                                                          last edited by

                                                                          @Brian:

                                                                          I only just managed to successfully upgrade from 11.71.

                                                                          Sorry if I was rude I just resent it when I’ve paid for software and it gives me so much aggravation. It took me several hours to get V12 installed at all. When I used the downloaded setup exe I kept getting an incomprehensible message about patchbeam1000.exe not being marked for installation with no indication of why I should care about this fact. I wasted a whole afternoon with the previous V12 and gave up and reverted to V11.71. I only got V12.00.49 installed by letting patchbeam do it’s stuff but it took hours so in the end I just had to kill it and I found it pretty much worked but had actually installed V12.00.41 but I was able to let patchbeam take me to V12.00.49.

                                                                          Bugs like this should not reappear. When the fix is done it should be commented in the code so that the same mistake won’t be made again.

                                                                          Unless of course you never actually found out what was wrong and just fiddled around until, say, whatever stray pointer was causing corruption happened to corrupt something less vital.

                                                                          in that case devs probably did not apply that specific fix to the 12.00 code base, as 11.xx was legacy code at that point and kept separate just for the purpose of fixes.

                                                                          We started working on 12.00 maybe 14 months ago, at which point code bases were separated.

                                                                          **we should have it running soon enough.
                                                                          **

                                                                          I am not sure what are you saying about patchbeam - its installer did not want to install? Thats weird message to get, as it is rather simple and usually doesnt cause any problems unlike Windows Installer based installers. Do you have some kind of AV running or security software?

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                                                                          • Brian GregoryB
                                                                            Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @spwolf
                                                                            last edited by

                                                                            @spwolf:

                                                                            in that case devs probably did not apply that specific fix to the 12.00 code base, as 11.xx was legacy code at that point and kept separate just for the purpose of fixes.

                                                                            We started working on 12.00 maybe 14 months ago, at which point code bases were separated.

                                                                            **we should have it running soon enough.
                                                                            **

                                                                            I am not sure what are you saying about patchbeam - its installer did not want to install? Thats weird message to get, as it is rather simple and usually doesnt cause any problems unlike Windows Installer based installers. Do you have some kind of AV running or security software?

                                                                            I think message about not marked for installation was from the exe installer trying to install over 11.71. Though I thought that was what patchbeam actually did in this case (going from V11.x to V12.x), but it used an older V12 exe.

                                                                            I am using Microsoft Security Essentials as my anti-malware.

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                                                                            • spwolfS
                                                                              spwolf conexware
                                                                              last edited by

                                                                              please patchbeam to .50 and see if this behavior is now improved.

                                                                              thanks!

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                                                                              • Brian GregoryB
                                                                                Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @spwolf
                                                                                last edited by

                                                                                @spwolf:

                                                                                please patchbeam to .50 and see if this behavior is now improved.

                                                                                thanks!

                                                                                Yes. Thanks. Zipping a folder but right clicking it and choosing compress to folder.zip now works without error messages.

                                                                                It seemed to take two goes with patchbeam to get me from .49 to .50 though. Or maybe the message that patchbeam has finished just appears long before it’s actually finished.

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