The Windows 11 context menu for PowerArchiver on normal files (to be compressed, etc.) is now showing multiple tiers with two identical menus. See attached captures of the issue:
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Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
OS build 26100.2605
Hello!
I’ve just created SFX-Archives both from ZIP and 7z-Archives and none has an Icon as it seems.
I use the new version 22.00.11.
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Basically I used powerarchiver context menus to zip up a folder then i used windows 11 own built in zip extractor via the context menu to extract all and this is where it throw up a fault. , I’m using windows 11 .
The file that was a problem in the zip that windows 11 could not extract was iva “babe” cotton.jpg
I know it has non standard quotes in it.
However I had winrar on the computer and tried the exact same method with their context menu compress to zip and then I extracted the file with windows own extract all context menu and it had no problems. This indicates that powerarchiver is doing something different with iva “babe” cotton.jpg compressing to zip.
Then I changed iva “babe” cotton.jpg to iva babe cotton.jpg and compressed it with powerarchiver and then tried it with windows 11 extract all and had no problems. It looks like powerarchiver is doing something to that one file that has quotes in it.
Please note that powerarchiver extracted both zip files with no problems, only windows built in zip extraction had the fault. Reason I’m letting people know in case they send zip files with special characters in files names to people who do not have powerarchiver.
When will a fix be implemented?
On installing the program I am getting the error message:
"Unable to execute file c:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\pashutil.exe
CreateProcess failed: code 2
The system cannot find the file specified"
This can’t be right!
I am using the latest official build of Windows 11
Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen.
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Buttons not aligned on configuration window.
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New version:
PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10:
Download:
https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220010.exe
New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.
Thanks everyone for your assistance!
New version:
PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11:
Download:
https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220011.exe
New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.
Thanks everyone for your assistance!
Just tried using the Modern (Windows 10) Icon set and seeing a few missing icons in both PowerArchiver Burner and PowerArchiver Encryption screens . They are all there in the Minimalistik icon set and the only difference I can see is the former is blue and the latter grey. In version 22.00.9
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Hi everyone, some good news about PowerArchiver… I’ve managed to get in touch with the original developer of PowerArchiver, Ivan Petrovic, and he has confirmed that the product is not dead or abandoned, in fact it is still very much alive! There has been a hiatus over the past months for various reasons, but that we should expect to see stuff coming through in the coming months (hopefully the next 2 months).
I had a large .tar file (a backed up WSL) and I want to delete a few directories and their contents from it using PA2023.
PA just destroys the whole archive as soon as I try to delete a directory, leaving it in a state where PA2023 won’t even open it any more.
I tried several times and also tried compressing it to .tar.xz instead - same result.
This should either actually work, or it should say operation not supported and do nothing.
Hello!
The regular version of PA 2023 is out for over 6 months now, but there is still no sign of the portable release.
(When) will there be one?
Thanks!
Hello!
Is there currently no portable version of PA2023 available?
(When) do you plan to release one?
Thanks!
Win 11 64 bit
I have some archives which have been encrypted, using the encrypt option either in pbs or when interactively creating a zip. When I open these, and look at files, I am asked for passwords, which I know, and then can view items or decrypt the files in the archive (tools>decrypt files).
However, when I use the Actions>Remove Archive Encryption (whether using the same zip or asking to write another), the routine shows progress bar to the end, but then just hangs i.e. “OK” never activates. All process information shows this stalled/hanging.
What can I do to sort this out?
For example:
Download this ZIP file: http://dslstats.me.uk/files/dslstats32W-6.5.zip
Everything in the ZIP file is in a directory “dslstats32W-6.5”.
However when I extract using right click “Extract Here” the name of the directory created is “2W-6.5” !
I am running PA 22.00.09 on Windows 11. I have seen the same happen with some other kinds of archive too.
If I compress a folder to a .pa using right click, Compress to folder.pa and use the new Windows 11 menu then the Options, Configuration, Miscellaneous, Use normal relative path setting is always enabled.
But I like this option disabled so I have to use the old style menu in order to get PA to compress a folder in the way I wish.
Missing SPTD driver after PAVD install
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I’m having an issue with SPTD option in PowerArchiver 2011. When I use the SPTD option and try to use the burner the drives are not detected even after installing PAVD. When I installed the PAVD driver from PA Burner, the StarPort Lite driver is installed but the SPTD driver failed to install. There is no sptd.sys driver in the c:\windows\system32\drivers folder. I’m running Windows 7 64-bit edition. When I try to run sptd.exe in the PowerArchiver folder it says not a valid Win32 application.
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I have no trouble getting the VDs to load with the latest version (.59).
But I did have the following odd behavior.
If I unmount it from the shell, I get a message near the system tray saying that the VD was successfully uninstalled.
However, it still showed in my list of drives in Windows Explorer – even after a reboot.
If I open Burner and then tell it to uninstall the VD, all is fine.
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with what version?
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@Keith:
I’m having an issue with SPTD option in PowerArchiver 2011. When I use the SPTD option and try to use the burner the drives are not detected even after installing PAVD. When I installed the PAVD driver from PA Burner, the StarPort Lite driver is installed but the SPTD driver failed to install. There is no sptd.sys driver in the c:\windows\system32\drivers folder. I’m running Windows 7 64-bit edition. When I try to run sptd.exe in the PowerArchiver folder it says not a valid Win32 application.
do you get some message during installation? only with final? we didnt change that part of PA in a long time, there should be nothing new happening with SPTD drivers.
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I haven’t used PAVD for a long time, I waited until after final came out and then when I installed PAVD there was a warning message from Duplex Secure asking to install the driver and even when I click the Install button, the sptd.sys driver is still not installed to the c:\windows\system32\drivers folder and the SPTD option in the configuration causes the burner to not detect any drives. PAVD is a separate download from the main PA and is installed via PatchBeam when using Virtual Drive for the first time. The only workaround for this issue is to download the SPTD v1.78 driver from http://www.duplexsecure.com/en/downloads and install it manually. Can you bundle the PAVD driver with SPTD v1.78 in the next PAVD update on PatchBeam? SPTD v1.78 fixes BSODs during file copy on some systems.
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I tried PAVD on 32-bit and it automatically installs SPTD 1.62 when I install PAVD but on 64-bit it fails to install SPTD and there is no installing SPTD 1.62 message on the screen during installation of PAVD as it does on 32-bit and thus the SPTD driver is missing on 64-bit. This is a 64-bit specific issue.
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@Keith:
I tried PAVD on 32-bit and it automatically installs SPTD 1.62 when I install PAVD but on 64-bit it fails to install SPTD and there is no installing SPTD 1.62 message on the screen during installation of PAVD as it does on 32-bit and thus the SPTD driver is not missing on 64-bit. This is a 64-bit specific issue.
did you use sptd from their own site, and that works?
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I didn’t use SPTD from their own site during this test for this issue on 64-bit. Can you reproduce the issue on the 64-bit issue. Uninstall PAVD if already installed, then uninstall SPTD with the standalone SPTD installer from its own website and reboot and then reinstall PAVD from the Virtual Drive link in PA Burner. When I install PAVD from the Virtual Drive link on 32-bit it automatically displays SPTD v1.62 setup and installs the SPTD driver just before the StarPort driver installation. The 64-bit OS is my main OS and the 32-bit OS is a guest OS on VirtualBox. I was testing 32-bit temporarily to see if the issue only occurs on 64-bit. I later installed SPTD v1.79 from its own site after this testing on 64-bit and it works. The sptd.exe file in the PowerArchiver folder in 32-bit OS is 860KB and has a DuplexSecure icon and then when I double-click it it shows the SPTD v1.62 setup screen with a button to install/update, uninstall, or cancel and the one in 64-bit OS is 512KB and only has plain Windows icon and when I double-click it it says invalid Win32 application. I then removed the 32-bit guest when this testing is completed.