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Where are various settings store . . . e.g. ftp, etc.
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should the image have a white background?
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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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Powerarchiver 2022
Right-click and select Encrypt on a folder does not work.
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The online update feature within the program suggests there is a later version than the ‘.17’ available on the web site. But clicking either download or update just reinstalls version .17.
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Hi Dear,
Cannot login and request resend license code for my fd
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Hi,
When you click on the Buy Now link, you come across four tabs - Home or Work, Enterprise Unlimited, Educational Discount, & Gift Discount.
What is the difference between a licence purchased via Gift Discount and a Home/Work licence?
Also, how can I renew the PowerArchiver Select plan a year after the purchase? Will it remind me automatically?
Best,
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I’m running PA 21.00.17 64-bit on a 64-bit i7 desktop with W10 Pro, latest version. This 32gb of installed RAM.
As I use the PA pbs system for a number of scheduled archiving operations throughout the day, PA Starter is set to load and run at system startup.
In the course of trying to identify some causes of slowness and bottlenecks in other processes, I notice that PA Starter (PAS) always runs at between 11% and 15% of CPU (see screenshot), usually at about 12-13%. This is by far the highest demanding process on the system, as shown by Task Manager. In Performance Monitor, PAS Average CPU is 8.32, with every other process at less that 1 i.e. in decimal places only.
Task Manager also shows PAS Power Usage as “Very High”, and is the only process shown thus.
I have looked again at the information about PAS at https://wiki.powerarchiver.com/en:help:details:powerarchiver_starter, which was last modified in 2016. The article states a low memory usage for PAS of 784k, which is fair enough, but it is the large CPU overhead which is of concern.
It is of course possible to change the PAS priority, but this has no effect on CPU overhead.
However, is it possible to change PAS, which is required only at intervals to initiate PA scheduled tasks, from consuming so much system resource for every moment of the day?
PA Starter.jpg
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I’m experiencing very slow extraction speed of multipart RAR files. For the first part the extraction is super fast but when PA reaches the part2.rar the extraction from there on gets super slow. PA needed for a 6,3 GB multipart archive 30 minutes to extract. I tested then with another program and it just took 70 seconds. I had this slow extraction speed with PA for quite a long time and I always thought that is maybe because of a high compression rate that the extraction would take longer. But it seems that only PA gets that slow.
I have lots of multipart archives that are 10+ GB and with PA it would be really time consuming. Is there any solution to this?
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Hi. The “Move” Action seems to be Not Working when used in the Tool – Batch Archive.
Using the Options – Configuration – Compression Profiles ---- I created a Profile with the Action of Move. Also set were Zip, and Method Deflate.
When I use the Tool - Batch Archive – It appears to me that the Action Move does not Move the compressed files (basically add to zip, and delete the added file from original location on the same disk). Zip file(s) are created and look ok.
Typically I on the Batch Archive process – I have selected options to use a Profile with the Move Action.
File’s Current Folder Group files from same folder into same archive Add subfolders to separate archivesMy PowerArchiver version is 21.00.17 .
Can you reproduce ? – Or do you need additional details or information?
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Hello,
PowerArchiver Command Line 7 support file greater than 2 Go ?
Thanks
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i just registered my own copy and i need some help to set it…
if i set the ‘configuration>shell extension>open folder after extracting’ checkbox, after decompress an archive is opened the file manager on that folder but… if somebody is using a different file manager how to open XYplorer or Directory Opus for example and NOT the MS file manager?
consider this as a feature request also if not available within the 2022 version
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I am looking for a way to stop the UAC elevation prompt when running Powerarchiver. In an old post about PA 2019, someone asked this and got a response to uncheck “all users” at the prompt but I am not seeing where one can do this. It definitely seems like the way to go though as if I click on “More Details” at the prompt I see that it is trying to run “_pautil.exe /paassociate /allusers /my(long binary string)”. Can you let me know? Thanks.
PS I tried renaming _pautil.exe and this worked, but I don’t know what the consequence of doing this may be so I would like to do this properly, thanks.
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Just a question is Ashampoo zip pro 4 built by Powerrachiver as it is very similar and uses the pae encryption.
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Hi,
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Re: Transfer PC License to MacBook iOS
Here is the email…
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 1:20 PM Rich DiBenedetto rmdibened@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
Could you assist me with this?
Can I use my current licenses with MacOS?
If not, can I transfer a license to MacOS?Cheers and Have a Great Day,
RichOn Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:35 AM ConeXware, Inc. ordering@conexware.com wrote:
Dear Richard DiBenedetto,Thank you for supporting PowerArchiver! Please find your activation and registration codes below.
*** Online Activation ***
PowerArchiver Select for PowerArchiver Toolbox English - LIFETIME
is valid until - not limited.E-Mail: RMDibened@gmail.com
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There would be many of us with Intel Processors.
and they have their own optimized zlib algorithm, which can result in more efficiency if used combined with their hardware processor.
Reference:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/zlib-compression-whitepaper-copy.pdfCan we get the same Functionality Under Hardware Acceleration Feature?
Zlib is not the only feature that intel has included with their processor, there’s many, which if combined can result in efficient and better compression ratios.
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Right buttons are not visible
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Greetings, new customer searching for help and/or refund…
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With PowerArchiver context menu enabled, it is crashing Windows 10 File Explorer when right-clicking on the Default User junction in C:\Users. Had 2021 installed, updated to today’s 2022, still getting same crash. Must have Hidden files and folders set to Show, and Hide protected operating system files cleared in File Explorer Options|View.
Windows 10 Enterprise Version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1708) (64-bit)
PowerArchiver 2022 Version: 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit
Licensed:
PowerArchiver Toolbox Edition Personal EnglishDisabling PowerArchiver context menu using Autoruns: on the Explorer tab, uncheck PowerArchiver64 under HKLM\Software\Classes\Folders\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers and the crash does not happen.
.PAF/.POWER Testing
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I have opened this thread in reference for us to try out the new .PAF format.
Below is a link to a large PDF this is an example in size and content to what my business and my friends business would have, Partylite is an example not what i personally deal with but it contains data, loads of pictures high and low graphics.
Here are some stats,
The original size of PDF is 48.9MB [51,351,506Bytes]
Compressed with the default PA Settings in the following formats;
Link to PDF
http://omega.livedrive.com/item/91a1987e76934c91bc66b8727147b020Zip - 48.4MB [50,752,392 Bytes] 1.17% Ratio
ZipX - 45.4MB [47,648,914 Bytes] 7.21% Ratio
7z - 44.8MB [47,063,757 Bytes] 8.35% RatioSo from the above 7z Shows the best possible current method to compress this large PDF. Now what can PAF do?
Over to you Guys…
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ok, although i would like to see what you actually deal with in business environment :-)
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ok, although i would like to see what you actually deal with in business environment :-)
Very similar, some of our PDF’s are PowerPoint presentations containing HD Pictures much like this. However, I can’t provide a real example for much of it as it contains confidential sales figuires and by removing those pages i am them reducing the size.
However, this PDF i have as an example is similar in size towards my friends Marketing firm Proof’s of such they use Images and PDF’s that make up 10meg to 50 meg Documents.
So its the same concept, the same size with the same varibles. :)
so… how good is this PAF?
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probably 15%, but main deal here would be to also recompress images, as images are those that are 50 MB.
but i will let you know of real result soon.
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probably 15%, but main deal here would be to also recompress images, as images are those that are 50 MB.
but i will let you know of real result soon.
15% is still better than any other option in PA currently.
What would also be nice is if you can Split like a rar the PAF format into a series of extracts so to help when emailing.
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Well, it is actually 32.7 MB in strongest mode ;-)
So 33% ratio
:-)
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Well, it is actually 32.7 MB in strongest mode ;-)
So 33% ratio :-)
Ok, I am very impressed… And I assume when you open it within PA and then view the PDF there is no loss of quality? is this correct?
I would love to get this trialed out! I will need to speak to Martin at Modern Printing designs he is over in hong kong withi is boss Cindy Cui. However, when i get a working copy of this format on his return i will install my copy of PA and ask him to try it out.
He uses Outlook so in theory i would need it to auto paf each email with POAP and many of those features i requesetd for POAP V3 were relating to my and other clients experiences…
:) theres a reason i make requets! and 9 times out of 10 they pay off!
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It will take a while to have it in shipping product.
Yes of vourse, it is completely lossless.
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Ok, great!
Shame could throw up some real keen testing enviroments. However, if i have anymore examples of files to compress i will post them here for you.
Thanks fella.
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More would be better… Real world examples…
You will obviously have it once it is ready for alpha testing.PDF, PNG, DOCX/PDTX/XLXX/OODT, etc.
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moved to general forums for more testing examples.
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How’s the speed of the compression engine for the new format – both compression and extraction?
Can we build self-extracting files from a .PAF archive?
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How’s the speed of the compression engine for the new format – both compression and extraction?
Can we build self-extracting files from a .PAF archive?
right now we are still working on codecs, speed for strongest mode (in results above) should be similar to 7zip strongest mode…
as to the SFX, SFX is just an small app that extracts archive inside, so it is possible.
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That’s very good news indeed. Obviously better compression is good. Nice to know, though, that compression and extraction are still speedy.
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That’s very good news indeed. Obviously better compression is good. Nice to know, though, that compression and extraction are still speedy.
it will have to be a bit slower but overall, it is still fast.
Extra compression is not due to utilizing slower compression methods (which exist and can be used, but are considerably slower to extract, up to 10x), but by doing better work on preparing data to be compressed.In this case, this is actually recompression of deflate codec, which is used to make PDF, PNG, DOCX, OODT files smaller. However, just like in zip, it is inferior compression codec and since it is compression codec after-all, you cant significantly compress it further. So what we had to do is create re-def codec that opens up this data so it can be compressed better.
Hard part is to put it back together lossless, and still maintain good compression ratio, and make it all fast and seamless experience to the end user.
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ok, so no tasty PDFs to test? C’mn guys… we have just finished with the sample that Richard sent over. We need more.
There is nothing magical here, just a LOT of work.
Once again, how everything works is that we recompress deflate codec, used in png, pdf, zip, docx, oodt, etc.
So (simplified):
1. Extract deflate tokens from file
2. Compress them with better method (plzma currently)
3. Store differences between our deflate implementation and original file so we can have 100% match.
4. done.Basically main “problem” here is that everyone uses different deflate implementation. You know that if you ever zipped something with PA, WZ, WR, 7z and any other tool, you will never end up with same file sizes.
This is the problem during “reflate” because you cant arrive at 100% same file, you have to use differentials, just like what patchbeam uses for instance to sees the difference between new and old file.
So we need more interesting examples so we can tune our detection models so there will be minimal amount of diffs, and file size will be as small as possible… Lots of diffs and then we gain no compression.
For instance, PartyLite.pdf that SirRichard sent:
Original: 51 MB
PLZMA: 46 MB
Ver1 of reflate: 44 MB
Perfect reflate: 38 MBSo our first versions of reflate had 6 MB of differentials needed to re-created PDF perfectly… We improved that so it ended being 100kb or so and now we do 38 MB on that file.
That is before pjpeg (another codec) that recompresses the jpegs inside that PDF, so it ends up being the great 33 MB.
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I have been asking, unfortunetly when it comes to work we dont have daft Large PDF’s that would benefit from Compression.
My Photo person doesnt use PNG either. However, my partner who does Partlite on the side as she likes the product so I can obtain many PDF’s containing many images if you woud like more I will post them on my LiveDrive?
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they dont have to be particularly big… 30% less is 30% less. Just authentic.
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here are the results from independent testing of our test versions of reflate, our first codec for paf.
http://www.squeezechart.com/reflate0rc1.html
http://www.squeezechart.com/reflate-pdf.htmlThis is without specific jpg codec included (so pdf’s that contain jpg will not be recompressed to smallest size), and without detection mode for level of recompression needed, which will correct those docx results for instance.
very encouraging :-)
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Indeed!! allot of promise there! looking forward to it being available for us Toolbox power users :)
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@Sir:
Indeed!! allot of promise there! looking forward to it being available for us Toolbox power users :)
lots of ground work left, but pa-reflate is showing good results for sure, and it is quicker than only competition - stuffit.
by the time we finish 1.0 for release, it should be better than StuffIt in every single case in there, or at least 95%. In fact, with few adjustments, it would already be better overall except for png’s and pdf’s that contain jpegs, because we still have to implement our new jpeg codec.
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Remember to keep windows phone in mind when building Engine :D:D
Just kidding… Keep up the good work.
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will the new paf format allow the same actions as zip meaning you can work with files inside a zip file and it will automatically update itself.
I would like to see recovery like they have with rar. A paf repair tool as well and encryption. sfx program for paf.
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will the new paf format allow the same actions as zip meaning you can work with files inside a zip file and it will automatically update itself.
I would like to see recovery like they have with rar. A paf repair tool as well and encryption. sfx program for paf.
It would be a poor state of development if they couldnt repair there own code. :) but very valid points, and if PA want users to use their new format then they will need to tick those standard boxes you get with competitors formats, would you not concur?
