-
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.
-
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! -
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.
-
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.
-
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
-
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?
-
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.
-
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
-
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!
-
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.
-
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.
-
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?
-
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?
-
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.
Well this one does not bother me at all, I just posted it for the records if needed! -
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
g : create Solid archive (7Z format only) -
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.
-
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
Issue, cannot create ISO from CD/DVD, NO DIALOG
-
I have a disc in my CD/DVD-RW drive, that is 1.5GB, I open PA, and choose Burner, and (Copy Disc to Image ISO) and nothing happens for long time.
The activity light on my DVD Drive is blinking, but no response from PA in Windows. There is a Minimized App that says Image Grabber, but no Dialog for me to know what is going on. I waited for a long time, nothing…
Windows 7 64-Bit
Custom Gaming Rig http://williamwendland.com/PC.shtml
Core i7 3.35GHZ
6 GB DDR3/1800
X58 SLI motherboard -
Hi,
Thank you for using the forum’s to report this bug. I beleave this is something the development team & alpha team have been working on. But it’s good to know that the issue is being experienced outside the alpha team.
for now try downloading the latest version 12.02.02 and let us know if you still experience the same issues.
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/alpha120/powarc120202.exe
To be on the safe side, i would also recommend you uninstall PA, reboot and then install the latest version from a clean start.
If you have any error messages, please include screen shots. however, from what we know the system just doesnt recognise or respond so you can screen shot that :)
Cheers again! and merry Christmas! PS: I like your system specs and computer designs!!
-
I have a disc in my CD/DVD-RW drive, that is 1.5GB, I open PA, and choose Burner, and (Copy Disc to Image ISO) and nothing happens for long time.
The activity light on my DVD Drive is blinking, but no response from PA in Windows. There is a Minimized App that says Image Grabber, but no Dialog for me to know what is going on. I waited for a long time, nothing…
Windows 7 64-Bit
Custom Gaming Rig http://williamwendland.com/PC.shtml
Core i7 3.35GHZ
6 GB DDR3/1800
X58 SLI motherboardis this only on this DVD or?
Do you have PAVD installed (Virtual Drive?). It also installs special SPTD drivers that will be able to access your drives via custom drivers (if something has messed up your standard SPTI Windows driver).
-
I have a disc in my CD/DVD-RW drive, that is 1.5GB, I open PA, and choose Burner, and (Copy Disc to Image ISO) and nothing happens for long time.
The activity light on my DVD Drive is blinking, but no response from PA in Windows. There is a Minimized App that says Image Grabber, but no Dialog for me to know what is going on. I waited for a long time, nothing…
Windows 7 64-Bit
Custom Gaming Rig http://williamwendland.com/PC.shtml
Core i7 3.35GHZ
6 GB DDR3/1800
X58 SLI motherboardjust tested this using the latest version.
inpot a 1.57gig DVD, opened PA>Burner>Copy Disc to ISO, the Image Grabber appeared immediately and “grabbed” the DVD into ISO.
My system is very similar to yours……I would check the settings that spwolf recommended.
-
Thanks all for the replies.
I do have PAVD installed, and that mounts my ISO’s just fine.
I will try using a different disc,
Also I have no issues creating an ISO from my HDD.
As I just dragged all my files from the DVD to my HDD and created an ISO then mounted it as G: DVD drive no issues. -
maybe copy protected DVD?
Make sure you go to Settings and change to SPTD drivers instead of Autodetection (PA Config> Misc).
-
It’s an old game but I have copies of the disc that work.
I’ll check the settings you suggestions.I’ll try some more tonight
-
Ok, I tried a totally differnt disc, and so far it is grabbing the image,
the dialog appered, but is very touchy, When I switched windows I lost the Grabber Dialog, but got it back.
Then when I went to move the dialog, Windows gave me a (Not Respondeing) however it recovered…
Image Was Sucessfull….Here is the Screenshot of my issue using the disc in question.
I have changed the settings to (Auto Detect)
the options available are:- Auto Detect
- SPTD
- SPTI
- ASPI
It appears there is only major problem with this disc,
It does not appear to be copy protected as I have made a backup.Even weirder this is not a DVD, it is a 700MB CD copy, the original has
I assumed it was a DVD, die that when I dragged the files to HDD it was 1.18GB,
but the disc itself is under 700MB.
This is either a problem with the disc, or issues with 700MB CD’s, I’ll do some more testing…
Thank’s for the replies, it is very appreciated.
the reason for this adventure is we can mount CD’s /DVD’s and virtual drives, and not have to insert a disc to play each game.
When I get this all figured out, I will do a tutorial, and recomend PowerArchiver to handle the job…
-
I went ahead and made a video of the issue.
It is only CD specific, no issues with DVD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XaimFV-Do0Also the mounted drive does NOT seem to work with games that require a DVD in the drive to play. I have to actually put the DVD in to get it to work. I have even tried renaming the drive to D:/ but still does’nt work.
I forgot to mention that when selecting SPTD, I do get a dialog, but drive does not appear.
Also that others are doing this and having the same isuues.
-
Thanks for posting the video!
Does the same thing happen if you enter ANY CD in the drive?
What is the longest you waited for before turning the program off?
You should be able to just press the “Open” button on your DVDrom drive and the disc tray should open up, without you having to turn your computer on or off, does that work?Also, lets try this…after entering the disc and Image grabber working in the task bar, open the Task Manager>Application Tab>Right click on PowerArchiver 2011: Image Grabber>Select Maximize
Does that bring it up at all?
-
Thanks for posting the video!
Does the same thing happen if you enter ANY CD in the drive?
What is the longest you waited for before turning the program off?
You should be able to just press the “Open” button on your DVDrom drive and the disc tray should open up, without you having to turn your computer on or off, does that work?Also, lets try this…after entering the disc and Image grabber working in the task bar, open the Task Manager>Application Tab>Right click on PowerArchiver 2011: Image Grabber>Select Maximize
Does that bring it up at all?
Any CD will cause the issue, even data cds I made myself, please note I have no issues with DVD
I’ve waited About 15 minutes before turning it off.
Pressing the Eject button on the CD-Drive, and even right clicking on CD-Drive will not eject the CD, it is still spinning, I used a paper clip to eject it one time, not a smart move on my part. Nothing was damaged.
I have used TaskManager, tried ending process, it goes through the process, but will not stop the drive from spinning. I have also tried right clicking on the TAB and restoring it from there, but no luck.
I will try using TaskManager to maximze/restore PowerArchiver.
-
I went ahead and made a video of the issue.
It is only CD specific, no issues with DVD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XaimFV-Do0Also the mounted drive does NOT seem to work with games that require a DVD in the drive to play. I have to actually put the DVD in to get it to work. I have even tried renaming the drive to D:/ but still does’nt work.
I forgot to mention that when selecting SPTD, I do get a dialog, but drive does not appear.
Also that others are doing this and having the same isuues.
when it comes to playing game DVD’s, PAVD doesnt have any DRM avoidance, so if particular DVD has DRM you wont be able to play that game.
The best thing for fixing the CD issue would be to PM us the example file (if you can find it on torrents or somewhere), so we can reproduce it here.
-
when it comes to playing game DVD’s, PAVD doesnt have any DRM avoidance, so if particular DVD has DRM you wont be able to play that game.
The best thing for fixing the CD issue would be to PM us the example file (if you can find it on torrents or somewhere), so we can reproduce it here.
Only 1 game I need the CD for, and that’s OK, I can live with puting it in, I dont play that much anyway.
The main reason was for 1 game my Brother has BF2, and we fixed the issue with that one, he had not updated the game, and that fixed issue ther, no DVD required to play.
Lastly, the CD issue, it does this with CDs, CDRs etc… so I doubt having the CD would recreate the issue, as I believe my problem is with all CDs
-
I tried maximize from taskmanager, and I got fullscreen transparent window with title bar only (PowerArchiver 2011 ImageGrabber not responding)
Note. I used even a different CDR, different brand even SONY CD-R supremas 700MB, PNY 700MB, SONY CD-R, Memorex, as well as the Retail Game CD
Note, I even tried to disable the DVD drive in device manager,
Device manager became not responding.I was able to get the error message,
Description:
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: PABURNTOOLS.EXE
Application Version: 1.2.23.1
Application Timestamp: 2a425e19
Hang Signature: d63c
Hang Type: 22528
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: d63c878bbd02db6d674c6cef3e1b72ea
Additional Hang Signature 2: 396f
Additional Hang Signature 3: 396fcd2aa355ab88e9fb596b5d662838
Additional Hang Signature 4: 2809
Additional Hang Signature 5: 2809a5bd732ee2577630c8026782d88f
Additional Hang Signature 6: ea53
Additional Hang Signature 7: ea53fa8de3c7038ade3031825fa5888d -
we will update the burner and see what happens… thanks for all your help.
-
I appreciate the help all…
I’ve been using Powerarchiver since way back when it was called something else, Powerzip maybe ?? cant remeber like 90’s, anyway, this is not causing me real issues, as the DVD ISO does work…
When I get some free time, I will try it out on a couple different computers…
Hope I’ve been of some help…
Let me know if there is anythng else I can test on my end…Thanks…
-
EasyZip… in 1999? :-).
-
We have updated our burner drivers, can you try again please?
-
It did not solve the issue on my PC,
Samsung Superwritemaster SH-223Q cannot update firmware (*)
Things that may be causing the issue:I’m using RAID 0 x2 on JMB363
System is 3-Way SLI (Doubt this is a problem)HOWEVER:
I cannot recreate the issue on several other computers
Intel G41 running Windows 8 64-Bit,
HP DV6-2155DX Laptop Winows 7 64-bit, the CD to ISO file was quick and without issue…So this issue is on my gaming rig only, it may be the
Samsung Superwritemaster Model: SH-223Q, and for some reason I cannot update the firmware from SB02 to ST02, I even reverted it back to SB00 with no avail. and still cannot update to ST02.Sorry for the trouble everyone,
Next I am going to install a new DVD-ROM or blu-ray and see if the issue still persists…Thanks for all the help…
-
yes, but it should work regardless of the drive :-).
After we finish up with beta, we would like to send you an debug version to capture logs so we can send them to our burner guys.
-
Sure, that would be great…
