PowerArchiver 2011 Final
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soon… but not that soon.
we have to finish up the new website… otherwise final is .51 + 10 another fixes and thats it, not extra features or we will never finish it :-).
As you know Richard, .01, and .1 are usually not that far away.
thanks!
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I understand that you have priorities; I also understand that you cannot do everything; finally, I suspect there are things we propose that are too difficult or would benefit too few people.
So this is NOT to be done immediately. I am thinking a month or so down the road.
Over the past 4-6 months, there have been some really interesting suggestions. Why not encourage the regulars to go through these, pick out, and then rank, their top 5-8 proposals? See if you might get some agreement about tweaks that most people would find beneficial. Some of these come up in the wish list; others appear when describing this or that problem.
Just a thought.
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i thought we do that? ;-)
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Sorry I was unclear.
Of course you make changes. But I am inclined to think that some suggestions get made once and, with everything else going on, get dropped. That’s no flaw, just the nature of the beast.
I thought that after a major release, we might collectively think about which of these changes would be best.
I couldn’t tell you all the proposals (since they come at different places in the forums). Such a list would help remind me of good suggestions I have forgotten.
Perhaps, though, others don’t think this meritorious or necessary.
Sorry you took this as a criticism. It was meant as anything but.
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i didnt :-).
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Socrate’s we take our Existing & Prospect user thoughts very seriosly and try and adapt it through a screening process whereby the Developers & Alpha testers discuss night and day what would be nice, great and vital to PowerArchiver’s future & its user base.
Everyone’s Suggestions are read. But as you can imagine there is allot of requests and even narrowing it down is time consuming and within that time you end up getting more and more requests.
I personally think powerarchiver is faster than its competitors when developing new features and improvements. But alas some are left behind… but no forgotten :)
Spwolf, I like the new site! Looking forward to the full release!
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I’m just hoping they can figure out that bug where RC4 triggers UAC when opening, but still opens even after I deny it (3 times) before a final version. I seem to be the only one with this issue though, at least among the posters here. No, I didn’t post it- I used email when I didn’t remember my password. As you can see I finally figured it out. ;)
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@Qun:
I’m just hoping they can figure out that bug where RC4 triggers UAC when opening, but still opens even after I deny it (3 times) before a final version. I seem to be the only one with this issue though, at least among the posters here. No, I didn’t post it- I used email when I didn’t remember my password. As you can see I finally figured it out. ;)
Hopefully they will! but even if they can’t make it before final with Patchbeam it could be “patched” under 3 seconds when they find the fix :D.
But I understand how frustrating it is when you want things to work before final…
I’ve been nagging the developers for FTP, Ribbon changes, Configuration enhancements.Guido Nags whenever he spots any detail that doesn’t act or look as it should hense why PA is so pretty ;)
Moles42 & luxor have been pushing for other areas such as Backup & Burner and issues with Virtual driver support etc
One happy family…
Keep posting the forums Qun Mang we do read them! Honeslty!
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@Qun:
I’m just hoping they can figure out that bug where RC4 triggers UAC when opening, but still opens even after I deny it (3 times) before a final version. I seem to be the only one with this issue though, at least among the posters here. No, I didn’t post it- I used email when I didn’t remember my password. As you can see I finally figured it out. ;)
it is always problem when we cant reproduce it, i know support has been trying to replicate the issue.
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Thanks, I know you’re looking. Just let me know if you need anything else from me. Just be warned, I will be away for most of the week starting tomorrow morning so if I don’t reply that will be why.
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Do you have the status of the completion of the new PowerArchiver 2011 website?
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a question I too pondered on Keith but I’m speculating that the release of a ‘Final’ for ‘PA’ might be of a higher priority at this current time…I’m sure Admin will let us know either way…:)
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soon :-)
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@Qun:
Thanks, I know you’re looking. Just let me know if you need anything else from me. Just be warned, I will be away for most of the week starting tomorrow morning so if I don’t reply that will be why.
we found the issue, not the fix yet… it happens onlx on 64bit, and what happens is that admin account gets the associations.
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Will the final be available this week? Are there last minute bugs that still need to be fixed?
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I think we are close Keith! not sure if its this week though.
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it never comes soon enough does it Keith?…:)
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we trying hard to make this week… thanks
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I think this version of PowerArchiver has taken longer than anticipated because of all its features.
Most if not all of the Alpha team have been helping for months picking out the bugs and suggesting new features or backing requested features… and the poor developers have had at times to grin and bare it.
However, I rather a working, stable and reliable piece of software reach our user base by release than let existing and prospects down due to rushing it.
I suppose there would be no harm if we left 2011 and released it in December as 2012… there is now law to suggest developers have to bring out new versions each year. :)
I’ve been working on a new menu system and database at work for the past 2 years and many of the features i bring out are tested by a small team i select but it is down to me as the developer to decide if all the work should be produced at a specific time.
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we finished work for final release this week, so unless we have something major, we have final… just need to finish up the new website.
since there was long delay between 2010 and 2011 (major versions, we issued many updates with new features), we will probably do 2012 much sooner - like in very early 2012, with new format :-)
