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.
PA 22.00.09
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Power Archiver not including files when creating zip.
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I recently installed Power Archiver 9.11 on a fresh install of XP SP2 to try it out. I really like the program, but don’t seem to be able to trust it.
For some reason, when I select a group of folders to compress (each containing a few small files), Power Archiver creates a zip file containing the folders in question, but none of them contain the actual files. The first time it happened I thought I’d just made some sort of error, but now I have a group of folders on which I can constistently duplicate the problem. Yet any other groups of folders I try to compress seems to work fine.
I’ve tried moving the particular folder group to the root of the drive and compressing them from there, but it didn’t seem to make any difference. I have found that if I right click on the root folder (the one containing all the sub folders), then Power Archiver compresses everything fine. However if I navigate into the root folder, select all the sub folders, then right click to create a zip file, Power Archiver creates a zip file containing the folders but none of the files they contain. There’s about 65 folders that I’m trying to compress, but they all contain pretty small files. I’ve even tried just selecting a few of them but the problem still exists. What I’m finding really hard to understand is that I can consistently reproduce the problem on this one group of folders, yet for the moment everything else I try to compress seems to work fine.Hopefully I explained all that well.
Has anyone else experiences this behaviour?Thanks,
Darren -
Okay, just as I was hitting the submit button on the above post I developed a theory. I’ve tested it and now seem to think I’ve found the bug, but if someone else could test it out too that would be great.
The group of folders I was trying to compress were all named after the version of the files they contained. So each folder was called something like “Program.1.3.5”. I can only assume that the “.” in the file name is causing Power Archiver to treat the folders as files, and it therefore doesn’t look inside them. To confirm this theory I renamed a few of them, removing the version number so there were no "."s in the name. I then recompressed the group of folders and sure enough, all the ones I’d renamed contained files but none of the rest did.
So for now I know not to use Power Archiver, and I’ll have to walk away from the computer for a while so I can come back to it in a less distressed state, when hopefully I’ll be in a better frame of mind to sort out all the files I’ve lost since installing it. :-( -
the best thing you can do is share those folders with us, uploading them on the web, so that we may download them and look about the problem.
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the best thing you can do is share those folders with us, uploading them on the web, so that we may download them and look about the problem.
There shouldn’t be a need for that. It’s a pretty simple bug to reproduce.
Just create a couple of folders. Call one “test.01” and the other “test.02”
Stick a couple of files in each folder. Now select both folders and compress them from the right click menu. The resulting zip file will contain the folders, but the folders won’t contain any files. Now rename the folders to “test” and “testing”. Compress them again and everything will be fine.I’ve uninstalled 9.11 and installed 9.1
Run the tests again and the bug is no longer present.Although……
I was testing the folders on the root of my C drive. When compressing them with the older version (9.1), it insisted in trying to include the hyberfil.sys file in the archive, even though it wasn’t selected. But that’s another story… -
There shouldn’t be a need for that. It’s a pretty simple bug to reproduce.
Just create a couple of folders. Call one “test.01” and the other “test.02”
Stick a couple of files in each folder. Now select both folders and compress them from the right click menu. The resulting zip file will contain the folders, but the folders won’t contain any files. Now rename the folders to “test” and “testing”. Compress them again and everything will be fine.YOU ARE RIGHT! :eek:
I could reproduce the bug.So, PA fails to include any files in folders named with a point in their name, but just when compressing to ZIP.
I tried to compress to other types like CAB, 7Z, BH and all worked fine.Using 9.11.01
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Cheers,
Thanks for confirming it!
I didn’t actually check any of the other formats. I was using version 9.11.01 myself. It seems that’s the only version with the problem.Thanks,
Darren -
thanks - we will check it out!