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Good morning,
I have been using all compression programs for over 20 years, I have always found Winrar very easy to use when I create a self-extracting archive, even 7-zip is simple, “right click” and “create self-extracting archive”, because on powerarchiver it must be like this confused ?
It doesn’t just create the archive, it opens a page where I have to select the file again, what kind of archive, which folder to create it, etc … you should learn from your competitors how to make life easier! -
Converting an archive to .zip (using both the “Deflate (.zip, compatible)” and “Store” compression methods) always creates a .zipx file instead.
pa-convert-zip-1.jpg
pa-convert-zip-2.jpgUsing the “Store” method sometimes creates a .zip file; I have seen it happen just now, but I cannot reproduce it.
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Hi,
So refer this screenshot:
image_2020-12-30_115129.png
The properties panel that you see, is what I tried to compress, using PA, with following settigs:
Extreme Strong optimize
https://forums.powerarchiver.com/assets/uploads/files/1609079025475-image_2020-12-27_195344.pngThe process was stuck at 0% with no progress for over 8 Hours:
PA.png
Then the usual, clicking will make it go not responding.
So, I could not get the files compressed using PA.
I tried 7zip, and it worked, so that’s 1 issue.
PA shows incorrect original(before compression) size of total contents.
Refer the first screenshot.
folder’s size is shown correctly in 7ZIP
but not in powerarc.this happens with every archive, whether they are compressed in PA or not, whether it has only 1 file, or multiple files inside multiple directory.
Neither does the archive property panel shows original content’s size.
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Hi,
So my rig is as below:
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4720HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (Turbo 3.7GHz)
RAM: 16 Gigs DDR3
Samsung SSD 860 EVO
Windows 10 pro for workstations x64, freshly installed on 22nd Dec 2020, and updated.
PA freshly downloaded on same day, so it’s 2021 x.x.62 versionPA Stuck.png
Issue and reproduction:
If you start a compression, and if it’s mid way anywhere or even started, and you try to cancel it, the window will get stuck there, another click or key press will make the window not responding, then, and more will make windows to collect logs for crash, and the process will be terminated by windowsOn the other hand.
If the process is mid way, and if you try to pause it, the compression, CPU utilization, RAM usage will stay/increase as if the compression if still going on, the whole process will take it’s course, instead of doing what we clicked on.
So, both pause and cancel buttons are useless.
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I recently installed PA 2021. But the PowerArchiver Starter, for my backups, keeps running at high CPU usage, I have to keep killing it, its running about 46% constantly.
I have Windows 10 Pro, 20H2, build 19042.662
Any ideas would be helpful.
Thanks
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Just installed 2021 v20.00.63
Now, when I add to queue, with or without using always use queue.
The powerarc starter opens up in notification bar.
and that’s it, no matter how many files I add to queue, no compression will start.
I also cannot double click or right click the icon.
If i end task for this, and disable queuing, compression works fine, just that I have to manually start individual tasks.
it’s quite ironic that you guys took whole year to fix one issue, in this versions, which completely broke the queuing feature.
Did you guys test it before releasing?
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Hi,
You can obtain the original file from here:
https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/in/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/lenovo-y-series-laptops/y50-70-notebook-lenovo/80ej/59428436/cb32343883/downloads/driver-list/component?name=Power%20Management
For Lenovo Y50-70 win 7 x64 bit, power management, get lenovo energy management
Run the exe it will extract the installable drivers to C:\drivers
I tried to compress the whole folder using PA using following parameters:
Extreme, strong optimize.
image_2020-12-27_195344.pngThis resulted in negative compression.
However same file is compressed by 7zip alpha, with positive compression:
PA Negative compression.png
I understand that there are different algorithms, parameters used, and totally different software with unique sets of logics programmed, but see if compression algo can be optimized for such files.
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Over the last few months, I’ve been trying to track down the cause of a hanging bug in PA.
I have found a reliable test case (on my computer at least).I am trying to extract the folders/files from: https://github.com/codereader/DarkRadiant/releases/download/2.9.0/windeps.7z
By selecting both folders, then dragging over to a Windows Explorer window on another HDD.
I’m not sure what causes this but this just doesn’t do anything, progress bar appears, but nothing happens.
PA shows about 5% CPU utilization and I’ve left this going all night and it never does anything.
It doesn’t always happen, but this morning this is reliably failing for me.
The folder I’m dragging to is under Git source control, but this also happens when dragging into other folders also, but not always, sometimes it works.If I do a regular extraction and use the dialog box to select the location to extract to, that always works.
Windows 10 64bit Pro 20H2 (19042.630)
Ryzen 3900X
Anti Virus is built in Windows Security only.I captured a dump of the running process if that helps: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WLzHG_fOAMtzGMMFLHlIElnQXhsoPyYd/view?usp=sharing
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I have just installed 2021, but seems to have similar issues to 2019. If you move the app between differen monitors (with different resolutions) the app does not automatically adjust accordingly, so on one monitor I have the app is too big for the screen, whereas on another monitor it only takes up a small fraction of the screen.
This was worse with 2019, where the fonts were totally screwed up, making the app unusable. This seems better in 2021, but still not working properly. -
Hi.
I have noticed after updating PowerArchiver through PatchBeam to 20.00.63, after the installer finished and I recheck for updates, it still tells me that I have version 20.00.62 installed and prompts to download 20.00.63 again.
This also happens when I install from the offline setup file powarc200063.exe ( https://powerarchiverdl.cachefly.net/2021/powarc200063.exe ). It still installs version 20.00.62 and the process goes over and over again.
Also, in PowerArchiver About screen I see version 20.00.62 but in Programs and Features in Windows 10, version 20.00.63 is displayed as being installed.
Can someone check and see if they experience similar behavior?
Thank you!
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When I double click on a file within an archive the file gets temporarily extracted to being opened with the external program. When I now go back to the windows explorer and want to open another archive while the file from the first archive is still being extraceted, a new window of power archiver opens and immediatly closes. It opens and closes the new window repeatedly until the extraction of the file from the first archive is completed.
I use the option that power archiver opens a new tab when another archive is opened.
This happend with version 20.00.60. I wanted to update it to 20.00.63 as shown in the update window but it just updates to 20.00.62. It still shows that 20.00.63 is available but never seem to update to that version. The bug still exists though.
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I have some large zip files (~ 40 MB) with a lot of html files. When I double click on one of them in the archive, it takes a long time (eg 20 sec) for the file to be extracted and opened in the browser.
I am using version 19.00.59.
I discovered that the root cause of the problem is that all the files in the archive are extracted to the temporary dir before the selected file is launched.
It does not appear to happen with other file types (such as pdf) nor when dragging a html file into the browser.
I think I recall this issue being raised by someone else, but could not find it.
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On PowerArchiver 2021 (20.00.60) and windows 10, Both options in the windows explorer shell extension, “Compress to …zip” and “Compress to …zipx” create a .zipx file. ¿Its this intended?
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My slow ring still reads as 19.00.59… will it ever offer an update to 2021 or is that something I must do manually?
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Hello there,
I was installing-uninstalling and reinstalling PA 2021 due to another bug when I noticed a minor popup “bug” if it is considered a bug, regarding application association with recommended formats.
During PA installation you get to choose those options
Installation 1.pngI have ticked Associate PA with recommended formats
Installation completes and when you open PA the defult theme is Windows Ribbon.
When I changed it to Classic Theme, PA restarts for changes to take effect and then I get the below popup (Sorry I have a greek system)
It asks: Do you want PA to associate with recommended formats now?
Options: Associate for all users and Never show again.
Popup 2.pngI could swear that once I was changing themes and icons all the time to see which one I prefered and also toggling PA.exe to run as admin and windows compatibility mode and got this popup twice or tripple times.
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If I the Configuration > View > Standard > Disable Tabs option is checked, when double clicking inside archives on files supported by the internal viewer (PDF, JPEG etc.) they are opened in associated application rather than on a new tab in PA internal viewer, which is expected behavior.
Next, if the Configuration > Miscellaneous > General > Reuse PA Windows is unchecked, when double clicking on archives associated with PA in Explorer they are opened in new PA instance when there is another one already running, which is expected behavior.
But when Configuration > View > Standard > Disable Tabs option is checked AND Configuration > Miscellaneous > General > Reuse PA Windows is unchecked, when double clicking inside archives on archive files they are opened in the same instance of PA with no way to get back to the parent archive. I would expect, that when the user doesn’t want to use tabs AND want to use multiple PA instances, that in such case double clicking on archive located inside another archive, the second one would open in a new PA window. -
I’ve made the sections of the output bold to indicate where the typo is.
Version 7 output
Commands:a : add files to archive (default)
u : update files to archive
h : freshen files in archive
m : move files to archive (files only)
d : delete files from archiver : recurse subfolders
Version 9 output…
p|P : store relative Pathnames|store full Pathnames
PP : store full Pathnames including drive
c[0,1,2,10,11,13,15,17,19,l,p,w,b,d,z] : set compression level
(0 - store; 1 - normal ; 2 - maximal)
(10 - store, 11 - super fast, 13 - fast, 15 - normal, 17 - max, 19 - ultra
(l - use LZMA, p - use PPMd, w - use WavPack, b - use BZIP2, d - use Deflate
(z - use optimized compression method based on file exstension)
g : create Solid archive (7Z format only)
Commands:a : add files to archive (default)
u : update files to archive
h : freshen files in archive
m : move files to archive (files only)
d : delete files from archiver : recurse subfolders
P : store full Pathnames
PP : store full Pathnames including drive
p : store relative Pathnames
c[0,1,2,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,u,l,p,w,b,d,z] : set compression level
(0 - store; 1 - normal ; 2 - maximal)
(10 - store, 11 - super fast, 13 - fast, 15 - normal, 17 - max, 19 - ultra
(l - use LZMA, p - use PPMd, w - use WavPack, b - use BZIP2, d - use Deflate
(o - use LZMA2
(u - use pLZMA4, f - use ZSTD, k - use PPMd_sh, e - use Deflate64
(z - use optimized strong compression method based on file exstension)
(x - use optimized fast compression method based on file exstension)
(m<filters|methods> - use custom set of filters and methods for .PA archive
y[r|b|d|x|p|d] - filters reflate, bcj2, x64flt, rep, delta
ypc<size> - custom rep c size
ypm<size> - custom rep mem size
yrx<size> - custom reflate zlib level (1-9)
yt{x} - number of threads
ya - debug mode
mt : set multithreading on
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I’ve found a bug when extracting files from a 7ZIP file, specifically when you tell PowerArchiver to extract only some files and folders from it. This is where the bug exists. You can tell PowerArchiver to extract only certain files but then it proceeds to extract the whole file and not just what you wanted.
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Sorry if I’m asking this in the wrong place.
Can Powerarchiver create images of entire drives (e.g. C: system drive) to create drive image backups?
Thanks,
Tim
Dragging files onto archive
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I’m not sure when this stopped working, but I noticed that dragging a file on top of a zip archive in explorer no longer does anything- PA is supposed to open an “add to archive” dialog. However, it still works for .7z archives. I just tested further and tried this with an .lha archive (worked) and .cab archive (didn’t work). This may be related to my other issue, but in case it is not does anyone have an idea why this could happen? 64-bit Windows 7, using PA 11.71 (was also an issue with a prior 2010 version on same OS). My best guess is it has something to do with Win 7 as support for .cab and .zip are built in, and those are the two archive types that dragging doesn’t work on.
Thinking about it, I’m not sure whether it ever worked since upgrading to Win 7? Hmm.
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I’m using a later version of PA and it works fine for me buddy…I’d try an update if I were you and re-test.
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maybe it is due to that associations problem? not sure, works here on 64bit.
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(both PA 2010 and PA 2011)
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Could this have a simple registry fix to get the copy feature back? Maybe I should wait and see if the other fix takes care of this as well when it is finished.
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Hi Qun!
There is most likely an RC5 update to PA 2011, please give it a look with that version and let us know.
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The download page still shows RC4 released last month, but I will give RC5 a try when it is available.
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it will be up today, half an hour from now :-)
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Sigh. Nope. This time the issue really is made clear though. When I run it as administrator everything is fine. Answering the Associate dialog “yes,” with the “All Users” box checked works fine and it doesn’t ask again next time I run it as administrator. When I run it normally though, as the logged-in user, I still get the UAC prompts. Whether I accept it or decline it (three times) PA runs and pops up the association dialog. Every time. It seems that PA won’t make the associations. If I choose “Yes,” it then activates UAC again, even if I don’t check “Associate for all users” checkbox. Why is it trying to update either all users or the admin account? If I uncheck that box, it should only associate for the local account which requires no admin approval, correct? Choosing to not show the dialog every time does not stop the UAC prompts at startup.
By the way, logging into the admin account then running PA from there will still pop up UAC, but since there I don’t require a password, it’s just a matter of clicking “yes.”
I hope this issue can be resolved soon. I am looking at that 60% off the toolbox- will this $19.98 deal expire anytime soon? I am hesitant just now since it looks like it uses PA 2011…
Oh, and the issue I wrote about in this topic remains unchanged as well.
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@Qun:
Sigh. Nope. This time the issue really is made clear though. When I run it as administrator everything is fine. Answering the Associate dialog “yes,” with the “All Users” box checked works fine and it doesn’t ask again next time I run it as administrator. When I run it normally though, as the logged-in user, I still get the UAC prompts. Whether I accept it or decline it (three times) PA runs and pops up the association dialog. Every time. It seems that PA won’t make the associations. If I choose “Yes,” it then activates UAC again, even if I don’t check “Associate for all users” checkbox. Why is it trying to update either all users or the admin account? If I uncheck that box, it should only associate for the local account which requires no admin approval, correct? Choosing to not show the dialog every time does not stop the UAC prompts at startup.
By the way, logging into the admin account then running PA from there will still pop up UAC, but since there I don’t require a password, it’s just a matter of clicking “yes.”
I hope this issue can be resolved soon. I am looking at that 60% off the toolbox- will this $19.98 deal expire anytime soon? I am hesitant just now since it looks like it uses PA 2011…
Oh, and the issue I wrote about in this topic remains unchanged as well.
All users association from 7zip is what made this issue appear, this is why you have it. So in order to fix it, PA needs to take it over.
we will take another look.
thanks!
p.s. toolbox deal wont expire soon.
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I just wish it would at least respect when I answer “no” and choose “never ask again.” I mean, the formats are already associated with PA whatever the associate dialog says (I open PA by double-clicking an archive). I should say what I mean by respect is to never attempt to promote the opening of PA to administrator level- it does stop asking to associate though. The latest failed attempt in this drama was to reinstall 7-zip (x64 version), associate all formats with it, then unassociate them. The word “failed” says it all. Another failure was trying to have it always load as administrator, then using MS’s application compatibility toolkit to permanently allow it without entering the password. This was to be a workaround I know, not a fix, but it didn’t work.
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@Qun:
I just wish it would at least respect when I answer “no” and choose “never ask again.” I mean, the formats are already associated with PA whatever the associate dialog says (I open PA by double-clicking an archive). I should say what I mean by respect is to never attempt to promote the opening of PA to administrator level- it does stop asking to associate though. The latest failed attempt in this drama was to reinstall 7-zip (x64 version), associate all formats with it, then unassociate them. The word “failed” says it all. Another failure was trying to have it always load as administrator, then using MS’s application compatibility toolkit to permanently allow it without entering the password. This was to be a workaround I know, not a fix, but it didn’t work.
it is not as simple as it looks… we will have another minor update to see if we made it work properly.
once you associate with all users on 7zip, you cant re-associate as standard user with pretty much any other compression utility (i tried all the big ones lik wr, wz, pk).
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Any chance CCleaner could be useful in this?
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i think restore to the date back before 7z associated would be best option but who knows what else you installed since then.
however, we should have next version soon enough.
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I had had 7-zip installed since about day one of installing Win 7, so restoring is kinda not an option… I will await the next version then. Thanks.
By the way, the version I was using was 9.20, a stable version, but it is possible I had a beta before that- I know you mentioned betas and alphas in an email to me.
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By the way, is it normal behavior that when uninstalling only the admin settings are removed? Also related, whenever I reinstall PA, running as admin will require the registration info to be entered while running it as local user it is already registered from previous installation (even when I don’t register on the admin account right away).
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@Qun:
By the way, is it normal behavior that when uninstalling only the admin settings are removed? Also related, whenever I reinstall PA, running as admin will require the registration info to be entered while running it as local user it is already registered from previous installation (even when I don’t register on the admin account right away).
“normal” yes… has been for as long as I have been using ConeXware Products.
Frustrating slightly… But an element to avoid bugs. ie removes all settings and registry links.
One thing i would suggest if you have not done it already would be to use the “Save settings to file…” option on the “Configuration” button once you as a user / admin are happy PowerArchiver works the way you want.
That way after a fresh start you can upload your preffered settings…
One feature I have pushed the development team for is the ability to enter your Serial and Configuration settings during the Installation Process.
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So you’re saying the settings should be removed, but why are they only removed for the administrator profile, while leaving the local profile intact? Like many people, I set myself up to run as a limited user when I installed Win 7 (also when I had Vista) rather than one with full admin privileges.
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@Qun:
So you’re saying the settings should be removed, but why are they only removed for the administrator profile, while leaving the local profile intact? Like many people, I set myself up to run as a limited user when I installed Win 7 (also when I had Vista) rather than one with full admin privileges.
hmph, problem here is that install removes what it installed.
and it installed itself under admin user.
when you later on run on any other user, installation does not know that anymore… it is not aware of any other changes to the system.
and when you uninstall, you basically uninstall for all users on the computer, however to have some kind of script that would run through every HKCU for every user and delete all PA keys seems a bit extreme.
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Understood. Thanks for answering the question, and for the continued work in looking for fixes for the issue I’ve been experiencing, and of course thanks for PA itself.
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it is interesting question though… should try attempt to remove any HKCU\Software\PowerArchiver that there is?
You can literally have 50 users on the computer and of course, installation is unaware of you running PA later on. PA will automatically write down settings to HKCU after it is run from new account.
Also this made me make reminder about testing if this new all user setting is actually removed during installation as well :-).
thanks for being our customer of course!
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Well, in that case, glad I could help! :)
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Please try this, uninstall and reinstall PowerArchiver RC5.
Do not manually delete any reg keys. Reinstall and try again.
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I already did that, trying to install from both my local account (which required elevation to admin of course as any installation does), and also directly from the admin account. I never manually removed registry keys as I don’t know yet what I would need to remove. I have since uninstalled it and gone back to 11.71, but I can try again.
EDIT: Just tried again. I overwrote the 11.71 installation first, then tried uninstalling, rebooting, then reinstalling. No good. I’m sure this has nothing to do with the situation, but I remembered I turned off Windows compressed zip support when I first installed Win 7- standard practice for me because I don’t want to see zip files show up as folders in a folder tree.
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Could any of my issues have anything to do with disabling the Windows built-in zip folder support? I always do that on Windows installations because I don’t like them showing up as folders in Explorer. Then again, I expect a lot of people do this as well, and as far as I know I am the only one so far with the PA issues I’m having.
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i doubt it, i will check with the dev team after we release pa 2011 on what could be the issue in the system…
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i doubt it, i will check with the dev team after we release pa 2011 on what could be the issue in the system…
The installation of PA seems to automatically disable the inbuilt ZIP function in Win 7. I also do not like it but have never had to uninstall/disable it in either 32 or 64 bit 7. Done it is XP so many times I know the command by heart :).
DrT
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The installation of PA seems to automatically disable the inbuilt ZIP function in Win 7. I also do not like it but have never had to uninstall/disable it in either 32 or 64 bit 7. Done it is XP so many times I know the command by heart :).
DrT
it doesnt do anything to built-in zip, it disables itself once it doesnt have association to zip.
but that has nothing to do with drag and drop.
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but that has nothing to do with drag and drop.
That is what I was trying to say to the OP who posed that question.
DrT
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but that has nothing to do with drag and drop.
That is what I was trying to say to the OP who posed that question.
DrT
ok, but still let it be said that we dont actually disable anything… Windows removes it itself once associations go to some other program… not our fault :-)
