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    • Config settings doesn't impact PA behaviour...

      pirrbe

      PA2023 Win10, (same problem with older releases but never reported)
      PA Soft is installed on partition D. (exclusive for installed progs)
      Then I created on my partition G: the folders as configured in PA Settings ‘Folders’.

      0fcf1b09-1b91-4b74-b250-f8cf908a3348-Ashampoo_Snap_maandag 20 maart 2023_11h54m34s.png

      Screenshot 2023-03-20 121152.png

      The problem : Any activity on PA is saved in these folders…
      PA ignores them and still use the default settings. Whats wrong ? Regards, Pirrbe

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    • Missing pdf markups in pdf preview

      L

      I am still using Powerarchiver 2022 and it does not show pdf markups in the preview. Is there a setting to get version 2022 to show pdf markups in the preview? If not, does this work in version 2023?

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    • Question about PA Files...

      T

      The question that I have about PA archives is what happens if say ConeXware, as a company, dies in the future? What happens to any PA files that are created today? Can these files be decompressed with a copy of a PowerArchiver that can no longer phone home to the mothership thus can’t be registered or activated?

      I mean, I can understand that new PA files wouldn’t be able to be created if the program isn’t registered but what about an un-registered copy because well, the question that I posed above?

      It’s questions like this that make me not want to store anything really valuable in PA files out of fear that I, at some point in the future, might lose access to said data inside those files. OK, 7ZIP might not be able to compress as heavily as PA but at least it’s open source and any 7ZIP files will still be able to be read and decompressed ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.

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    • Functions in Windows 11 context menu no longer work after last Windows Update

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      For some reason, the PowerArchiver functions in the Windows 11 context menu no longer work after the last Windows Update. Only the functions in the classic context menu function as they should.

      I’ve tried uninstalling PowerArchiver and using RevoUninstaller to remove all bits and pieces that were left behind and did a clean install of PowerArchiver, it didn’t fix the issue. Other items in the Windows 11 context menu work.

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    • Multi Extract doesn't extract in parallel in Windows 11

      Z

      Is this a known problem? Is there a fix coming? This is a primary reason I buy PA.

      I’ve tried both methods I know to extract multiple zips at the same time. 1) Multi Extract feature in the GUI. 2) In Windows File Explorer, select multiple zips, right click, use PA context menu to Extract or Extract To…

      Is there a setting I missed? Or maybe it really is processing in parallel, but I can’t detect it? Nothing tells me in the Processes in Task Manager that multiple PA extracts are running. And my CPU, memory and disk resources do not look like a lot of extracts are running.

      I’m using PA 2022 Standard version 21.00.18 on Windows 11 Pro version 10.0.22621 Build 22621.

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    • Functions in Windows 11 Context Menu don't work in some directories

      P

      In the latest version of PA, on W11 (latest build/SP) when you try to use the first level context menu - NOTHING HAPPENS (particularly when you do this from Downloads or Documents folders) - however I noticed that it DOES WORK when you use the context menu from the Desktop. Going to the second level context menu does work however.

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    • PA 2023 Preview versus PA2022

      pirrbe

      Is the version Preview 2023 also considered to be tested by the testteam ? In the past we got messages in the forum for testing out version x.x, to be downloaded by fastring, or I missed the one for 2023. (I discovered 2023 on the official web…)
      CU, Pirrbe

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    • Missing virtual driver in Patchbeam

      pirrbe

      PA 2023 22.00.08
      Long time no seeing. So I start up the new year with a first problem : the virtual driver cannot be installed. Reason : it is missing in the Fast Ring PatchBeam Update Service…
      Virtual driver PA 2023-01-28 152607.png
      It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
      Can I have a link or can it be fixed. Thank you. CU later

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    • How to get a registering code?

      N

      Hi there, been a user since 13 years now and in past whenever I had a problem or question I could email, however since 3 weeks it seems like everybody is dead?

      Anyway, as kind of a last resort, I post this email a 4th time but in this forum instead now, in the hope for help:
      "This is the 3rd time I am emailing you guys as I am missing a working code for the preview of Power Archiver 2023

      Can you please help me? I am a 13 years lasting customer of yours, and I am shocked thatr for whatever reason my support tickets are ignored now, why?

      thanks in advance!
      All the best!
      Joerg"

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    • File Explorer Shell Extension crash on Junction

      W

      Re: Explorer.exe Crash on right click

      This appears to be happening again with the Power Archiver 2022 shell extensions.

      When I have Use Explorer Shell Extensions enabled in Power Archiver Configuration and right-click on c:\Users\username\Start Menu, (hidden Junction file), File Explorer crashes.

      I have version 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit installed in Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1826).

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

      Brian Gregory

      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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    • PA 21.00.18 testing via context menu causes extraction of files

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      When the function for testing archives is invoked via the shell context menu (PowerArchiver > Test) then all the files in the archive get extracted to the current folder.

      The test dialog reports as many errors as there are files in the archive but it fails to give any hint as to which files are supposed to be erroneous or what the nature of the problem might be. Comparing the extracted files to the originals shows no differences at all.

      The .7z in question was produced with maximised compression settings in 7zip (taking forever but resulting in smaller archives than .7z produced by PowerArchiver with maximised settings). Therefore I wanted to see whether PowerArchiver can at least test .7z that it produced itself. Hence I had PowerArchiver convert a .pa with the same contents to .7z. There weren’t any errors reported but the resulting .7z contained fewer than half of the files contained in the .pa (137 of 366), so I scratched that test.

      Performance is abysmal when testing via the context menu (e.g. almost 2 minutes for testing a .7z that 7zip tests in 4 seconds), but that is most likely due to the fact that the extracted files are written to disk. Testing the same .7z in the PowerArchiver GUI takes only 8 seconds but causes the mysterious appearance of a UAC dialog, as reported elsewhere.

      The testing function is vital because PowerArchiver has a history of producing archives that it cannot unpack without errors or that do not conform to the respective file format standards (e.g. ZIP) so that other programs report them as erroneous.

      The point of creating archives is that the files in them will most likely have to be extracted at some point. If the extraction cannot be guaranteed to produce correct results then the whole program is absolutely pointless. Actually, worse than pointless - it causes data loss and hence damage.

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    License for rar support?

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      Firefly1 last edited by

      Is there any plans to license the creation of rars? I’m considering powerarchiver, but the lack of rar creation is a sever negative, might as well buy winrar then.

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        spwolf conexware last edited by

        it is not possible to license creation of rars… we do have fastest unrar :-).

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          Firefly1 @spwolf last edited by

          That is unfortunate. While fast unrar is great, the inability to make them is a big deal breaker :(

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            davidsplash @Firefly1 last edited by

            would everyone pay more if they could have rar total support i know i would. You could implement my suggestion and intergrate rar command line into pa with people haveing to buy the command line version of rar from winrar in oder to get all the features of rar to work in pa.

            come on do this and both winrar and you get the best of both world winrar comand line sales would go through the roof and pa could cflaim full rar compatbility vuia the winrar’s command line if you purchase it.

            No licensinmg issue here and you get to use pas interface and rar command line as one.

            winrar can’t complain and it would increase their sales and yours

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            • spwolf
              spwolf conexware @Firefly1 last edited by

              @Firefly1:

              That is unfortunate. While fast unrar is great, the inability to make them is a big deal breaker :(

              we do offer zipx, 7zip, ISO creation, which rar doesnt… tools, backups, etc, etc.

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                davidsplash @spwolf last edited by

                powerarchiver offer plugins rar doesn’t

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                  Firefly1 @davidsplash last edited by

                  Sorry for the slow reply

                  What tangible benefits do plugins give me if rars can’t be made? The other formats are freely available. If I were to use power archiver + winrar I would be buying twice for no gain, the additional features can again be achieved with other free tools too. I don’t see the reason why I should buy this + winrar than use free tools

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                    davidsplash @Firefly1 last edited by

                    why do you need to use rar ask yourself that

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                      orbidia @davidsplash last edited by

                      So here’s an obvious answer…

                      Someone has a hard drive with some archived stuff on it in RAR format. And they want to simply add a file into the archive without extracting everything and then recreating a new archive in another format. People have been using RARs for a long time and there’s bound to be a lot of cases where they need to modify or change RAR archives.

                      I don’t really understand why this proposed solution of using WinRAR/Command Line RAR.exe to enable full RAR support in PowerArchiver has not been adopted. PowerArchiver has the superior interface and more format support and features but it forces people to still use winrar because it doesn’t support creating or modifying RAR archives.

                      PowerArchiver has been around a long time and I don’t understand why it can’t incorporate an optional plugin to work with either the WinRAR program or WinRAR command line. Even if WinRAR needed to be installed to get RAR creation support in PowerArchiver, it would be nice to never have to use WinRAR again and have context menus disabled for it etc… But that can’t be done until PowerArchiver can create RARs.

                      Directory Opus does this already by using an installed version of WinRAR to enable full RAR support within the program. How come PowerArchiver can’t? If you REALLY want to be the best archiver program, I’m afraid this functionality is going to have to be added at some point…

                      Other than that, PowerArchiver is obviously the best Archiving program ever. Hopefully that one last hurdle can be overcome.

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                      • RJWaring
                        RJWaring last edited by

                        RAR has many advantage’s so it would be nice in time to see PA with the ability to Write RAR’s… However, what is also important with an archive tool is features, reliability and compatibility and PowerArchiver hosts that and more!

                        I’m fine using the formats PA Offer to write, knowing i can read practically all other formats. I also know there is so much more to come in this great app and that’s why i continue to pay for upgrade’s not to mention dedicate much of my free time testing, and offering advise, ideas and potential solutions because ConeXware does something the other competitors dont!

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                        • spwolf
                          spwolf conexware @orbidia last edited by

                          @orbidia:

                          So here’s an obvious answer…

                          Someone has a hard drive with some archived stuff on it in RAR format. And they want to simply add a file into the archive without extracting everything and then recreating a new archive in another format. People have been using RARs for a long time and there’s bound to be a lot of cases where they need to modify or change RAR archives.

                          I don’t really understand why this proposed solution of using WinRAR/Command Line RAR.exe to enable full RAR support in PowerArchiver has not been adopted. PowerArchiver has the superior interface and more format support and features but it forces people to still use winrar because it doesn’t support creating or modifying RAR archives.

                          PowerArchiver has been around a long time and I don’t understand why it can’t incorporate an optional plugin to work with either the WinRAR program or WinRAR command line. Even if WinRAR needed to be installed to get RAR creation support in PowerArchiver, it would be nice to never have to use WinRAR again and have context menus disabled for it etc… But that can’t be done until PowerArchiver can create RARs.

                          Directory Opus does this already by using an installed version of WinRAR to enable full RAR support within the program. How come PowerArchiver can’t? If you REALLY want to be the best archiver program, I’m afraid this functionality is going to have to be added at some point…

                          Other than that, PowerArchiver is obviously the best Archiving program ever. Hopefully that one last hurdle can be overcome.

                          i like the solution in directory opus…

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                            y2kusuma @RJWaring last edited by

                            @Sir:

                            RAR has many advantage’s so it would be nice in time to see PA with the ability to Write RAR’s… However, what is also important with an archive tool is features, reliability and compatibility and PowerArchiver hosts that and more!

                            I hope PAF format will have more advantages than RAR so we can forget about RAR.

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                              spwolf conexware @y2kusuma last edited by

                              @y2kusuma:

                              I hope PAF format will have more advantages than RAR so we can forget about RAR.

                              it should be better than rar in any way, at least when we are done with it… but they do make a good point, it is not like everyone or even our most advanced users, simply convert every rar they have.

                              which is why we have also optimized unrar in past to be faster than in wr :-)

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                                davidsplash @spwolf last edited by

                                one simple way is to write your own plugin to use the command line version of rar which is exactly what i did and it works to a fashion though to make it leagle you have to buy rar . The only downside to my plugin is that i can not use recovery part to rar though i hope pa will eventaully resolve this problem and make rar intergrated using the command line use and use. They would impliment a check to see if the command line rar is registered if yes full commandline use would be allowed if not omly unrar options will be allowed .

                                Come on power archiver this option is agrable with rarlabs i have checked with them and as long as anyone buys a copy of there commandline they dont care how you use it.

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                                  orbidia last edited by

                                  @davidsplash:

                                  You have a plugin which allows owners of commandline RAR to work with Powerarchiver?
                                  Is this posted anywhere? If not, can you please post it? That’s what everyone here wants!

                                  Yes, it doesn’t matter if an archive format comes out that’s twice as good as RAR. There’s literally millions of RAR files out there “archived” already. It’s nice to be able to extract them really fast but what about when I want to add a small .TXT file to the archive? I drag it into the archive and I get an annoying crossout symbol. If I don’t have WinRAR, I now have to extract the entire archive and and then recreate the whole thing in another format. Or I have to close down Power Archiver and open WinRAR and then I can simply add the .TXT file. So I need to own RAR anyways. It sure would be nice to NOT have to use two programs which do the same thing. I’m sure there are plenty of people who don’t mind owning both if that’s the best way to work around this problem. It’s having to use both that’s annoying…

                                  @davidsplash: will your plugin allow files to be added to RAR files directly? Can one drag a .txt file into the Power Archiver window and get a plus sign for RAR files? Or does that need tighter integration?

                                  I’d love to NOT have any context menu items for WinRAR for example or not to ever have to actually open the WinRAR again except to install it… but that’s currently not possible.

                                  I’m very happy to hear that spwolf seems to understand this issue.

                                  Happy Holidays everyone!

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                                    davidsplash @orbidia last edited by

                                    i do have a plugin but it works with the commandline version of winrar. but i can not post it as it is big and a bit buggy at present. But i was hoping that pa would come up with an official plugin that wasnt buggy

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                                      Mili conexware last edited by

                                      Orbidia,
                                      if it would make things easier(I don’t see it mentioned in detail), you can use the archive converter tool in PA to convert your RAR archive into another format, without having to extract and compress it separately. Then you’ll be able to use that archive to add files to your liking.

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                                        davidsplash @Mili last edited by

                                        take a look at MultiArc plugin for total commander it is a lot further down the oad than my plugin and does work with rar o a point.

                                        not sure it works with pa but as pa uses total commander plugins it shouldnt be too hard to reconfigure it.

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                                        • spwolf
                                          spwolf conexware @spwolf last edited by

                                          @spwolf:

                                          i like the solution in directory opus…

                                          you should consider my post above as a tell tale :-)

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                                            alexgieg @spwolf last edited by

                                            I’d like to suggest an alternative solution to this. What I’d like to see would be for PA to offer a generic solution for those who need 3rd party compression engines integrated into the main program as some kind of advanced options window in which you could add a file type, then add simple text field where one would simply write the different command lines needed to achieve certain standard outcomes.

                                            So, for example, do you want to have support for, let’s say, the very uncommon “KGB” file type? You’d add a new “KGB” file type, under it the different command lines for, let’s say, create a new archive, add files to an existing archive, remove individual files from an existing archive, extract files, test the archive, and so on and so forth. Throw in some needed magic variables such as “%archive_path%”, “%archive_name%”, “%file_path%”, “%file_name%” etc. (with suitable variations such as “%lowercase_file_name%”, “%uppercase_file_name%”, “%8.3_file_name%” and the like), plus the ability for such custom commands to appear in the context menu, and presto, every advanced and/or non-standard user out there would be more than happy.

                                            Over time forum users would be able to provide their own sets of typical command lines for those without the time or inclination to figure them out by themselves. The most used ones (or even all, why not?) could then be added to PA as presets, so that one might simply select “RAR”, “KGB” etc. from a drop down list, and be done with it.

                                            This wouldn’t be, I guess, particularly difficult to provide, all the while being much easier to use for non-programmers than having them write full fledged plugins. And PA would only need to test for the existence of the executable.

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                                            • RJWaring
                                              RJWaring last edited by

                                              That’s an interesting concept alexgieg! Something like that sounds fairly simple in thought but practically i can see that being a challenge.

                                              However, most challenges payback. making PA host such an advanced feature would fit nicely in the Toolbox version!

                                              But the team are so busy with creating the new Paf
                                              format to get it better than any other current compression ratio i doubt we will see this sort of feature anytime soon.

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                                              • spwolf
                                                spwolf conexware last edited by

                                                what is going on here?!!!

                                                :-)
                                                attachment_p_28611_0_parar.png

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                                                  Mili conexware last edited by

                                                  :cool:

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                                                    y2kusuma @spwolf last edited by

                                                    @spwolf:

                                                    what is going on here?!!!

                                                    :-)

                                                    It’s a zip file, or other supported format, created with file extension changed to rar.

                                                    I do it all the time, encrypt to pae then rename it to mp3.

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                                                      Mili conexware @y2kusuma last edited by

                                                      lets try again :D

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                                                        TBGBe last edited by

                                                        Photoshop is fun!!

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                                                          Luxor Alpha Testers @TBGBe last edited by

                                                          @TBGBe:

                                                          Photoshop is fun!!

                                                          You cynic that you are. :D

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

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                                                            Mili conexware @Luxor last edited by

                                                            hallucination?

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                                                              spwolf conexware last edited by

                                                              my mad photochop skillz!
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                                                              • TBGBe
                                                                TBGBe last edited by

                                                                Yeah, yeah - now tell us it’s faster too :p

                                                                Don’t see any “Repair Features” though :confused:

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                                                                • spwolf
                                                                  spwolf conexware @TBGBe last edited by

                                                                  @TBGBe:

                                                                  Yeah, yeah - now tell us it’s faster too :p

                                                                  Don’t see any “Repair Features” though :confused:

                                                                  cant be faster… but our own unrar still is :-)

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