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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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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.
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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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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
Windows 8 CP
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Hi,
May be worth one of the dev’s downloading W8 CP *64.
Install issues are back from the dev preview.
The updater crashes.
Extracting an archive takes a longer time than W7.
It would not extract to the roaming folder, encounters permission errors.I also tested Win RAR *64 and no issues (other than icon overlay, which as with Powerarchiver are fixed with the initial choose what to open this with)
Just thought would bring it to your attention.
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@pjb:
Hi,
May be worth one of the dev’s downloading W8 CP *64.
Install issues are back from the dev preview.
The updater crashes.
Extracting an archive takes a longer time than W7.
It would not extract to the roaming folder, encounters permission errors.I also tested Win RAR *64 and no issues (other than icon overlay, which as with Powerarchiver are fixed with the initial choose what to open this with)
Just thought would bring it to your attention.
cool beans Microsoft!
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If i remember correctly, we had similar issues when we went from XP to Vista. And some minor performance issues with Windows 7.
:) Just part and parcel of upgrading software.
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@Sir Richard - totally agree, part and parcel of upgrading software, but when MS said a while ago any thing that runs on W7 will run on W8 you at least expect that to happen ;) well may be with a pinch of salt :)
@spwolf - Yep, indeed cool beans MS, cool jolly beans. :)
I tested it at work yesterday (as I was due to format my pc there) and that’s when I found those issues - along with all the other annoying stuff MS have so far implemented to slow productivity. I was glad to re-format my PC to clean W7 after the test. :)
I have still kept a VM of W8 at home which I may get to do some tests on over the weekend. -
@pjb:
@Sir Richard - totally agree, part and parcel of upgrading software, but when MS said a while ago any thing that runs on W7 will run on W8 you at least expect that to happen ;) well may be with a pinch of salt :)
@spwolf - Yep, indeed cool beans MS, cool jolly beans. :)
I tested it at work yesterday (as I was due to format my pc there) and that’s when I found those issues - along with all the other annoying stuff MS have so far implemented to slow productivity. I was glad to re-format my PC to clean W7 after the test. :)
I have still kept a VM of W8 at home which I may get to do some tests on over the weekend.PA is actually included in their testing runs, we had MS contact us last year for the permission. Obviously thats very cool and at the same time, it seems those bugs were “differed” as these big companies usually do :-).
What did you make VM in, vmware?
I just hope they wont destroy it for us, it seems to me a lot of things are being pushed because of tablets, onto desktop users, which might actually make people switch to something else that doesnt force them to do so :-).
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I understand that Winzip has already created a free Ipad application.
obviosly doesnt do the job the full app does but you a rite its a sign of things to come.
MS Using PowerArchiver for testing is great news! Could even open some doors in the future. :)
I think the future is touch screen Laptops, Media Centres and Ultra Pads, with simplistic user interfaces that rely on touch or sound to react.
If this means we have to adapt then so be it! i remember being many debates between myself and conexware about moving PA forward with features that are now part of PA and every other archive competitor. :)
If that means seeing PowerArchiver evolve from computer to pad’s then so be it.
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PA is actually included in their testing runs, we had MS contact us last year for the permission. Obviously thats very cool and at the same time, it seems those bugs were “differed” as these big companies usually do :-).
What did you make VM in, vmware?
I just hope they wont destroy it for us, it seems to me a lot of things are being pushed because of tablets, onto desktop users, which might actually make people switch to something else that doesnt force them to do so :-).
The test was on my ‘proper’ workstation (work pc) - clean W8 CP *64 install. Have reverted my ‘proper’ workstation back to W7 so I can actually work on it :)
I have VM Ware on my workstation, and therefore plan to do a clean install of W8 CP *64 on that, so that can do further testing when time permits.
Totally agree they seem to be forcing desktop users away - it seems W8 is predominantly tablet/touch screen orientated.
There should be no reason why PA should not work in W8 if MS were serious about testing your software. It’s really annoying.
Desktop PC’s are going to be here to stay for a long time, they are so much more productive then laptops/netbooks/tablets etc.To add to MS bad W8 planning, my boss tried it on his netbook, none of the things on the start screen would launch as it complained about the resolution - well the device screen is not designed to be above 1024*768! Good old MS.
Personally for me as a full time Tech, I see going from PC’s to Pads as a backwards move. Far less productive and less efficient - like I say that just my opinion.
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I was at a tech show a few weeks back.
Asus, Samsung & Hp were showing off there brand new power tabs. the asus had a tablet with an i7 CPU, 8 gigs ram with a Nvidia GTX gpu. " They wouldnt show us the true specs"
The screen sizes were staged between small 10, medium 15 and large 17 inch i think.
On each Brand they had docking stations with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, The Asus and HP Models were using Windows 7 Utimate and Samsungs Googles new Chrome OS.
The asus team who had the most impresive model demoed to us playing Crysis 2 at full resolution amoungst other things like office 2010, internet streaming HD Movies, auto cad with 3D Graphics. They then took the unit off the cradle and it turned into a tablet style interface. “a simple skin change which is available in Win 8”
So in princible when on the dock it acted like a full blown Mid to high end PC Workstation with a Windows 7 enviroment and off the dock changed to a tablet skin interface with larger buttons.
The PC is just evolving once again and soon the typical large Computer Case with a seperate Monitor will die off. A sign of this has already begun as demand over the last 5 years has droped year after year by roughly 10 to 15% with Laptops and Tablets growing in demand.
The PC Box is soon to die its a matter of time. These PowerPads are the future for sure. When the 1st laptop came out the sceptics all said it wouldnt replace the PC. Most busineses and Home users now own a Laptop as they are cheaper to produce, can be stored away easily and consume less energy and perform practically 95% of the tasks the typical pc user requires them to.
But one thing is for sure a typical bog standard Andriod and IOS Tablet will never ever replace a full blown PC Enviroment for busineses and power users!
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Richard,
convertibles are cool… and then Win8 should have the setting for convertibles.
But annoying 99% of your users (desktop) is counter productive.
I have had iPad for quite a while now… for business use, it is as good as iphone. Which is not really. For media consumption, it is great.
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when I say Desktop, i mean Desktop version of Win8… same goes for notebook users really.
Desktop/Notebook demand in the world did not come down last year, pads just shot up. Market for AC :P
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If you have the Win8 version working. Why not start on WP7 :-)
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when I say Desktop, i mean Desktop version of Win8… same goes for notebook users really.
Desktop/Notebook demand in the world did not come down last year, pads just shot up. Market for AC :P
HP, Dell and Asus submited a decrease in demand for Desktop’s PCs and market research backs the decline in the majority of end users requiring them.
However, Laptops, notebooks and the new Allinone systems showed an increase.
You could argue that the All in one is a “desktop”. and i would agree ever so slightly.
Although to me a desktop PC is something that can be upgraded, doesnt come with inbuilt monitors and noramlly has a life span of 5 to 7 years before it becomes to slow for modern software.
Where as Laptops, Netbooks and Notebooks are usualy less than 3/4 years. “depending on the specs of course”
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@Sir:
HP, Dell and Asus submited a decrease in demand for Desktop’s PCs and market research backs the decline in the majority of end users requiring them.
However, Laptops, notebooks and the new Allinone systems showed an increase.
You could argue that the All in one is a “desktop”. and i would agree ever so slightly.
Although to me a desktop PC is something that can be upgraded, doesnt come with inbuilt monitors and noramlly has a life span of 5 to 7 years before it becomes to slow for modern software.
Where as Laptops, Netbooks and Notebooks are usualy less than 3/4 years. “depending on the specs of course”
as I said, when i said desktop, i only meant desktop version of Windows 8 vs tablet/Metro version.
they are basically forcing tablet/metro onto everyone so they can sell more of them… but if they keep forcing it like this and making it harder to use than Win7, they will start losing more marketshare in desktop.
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we will of course take a look at these issues next week…
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here is the test setup:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/alpha120/powarctest.exeif you get exception, can you send us stack trace like last time please? Thank you!
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hm, i just tested with latest version on the site and all was well? It installed without any problems. ZIP was fast as usual, but 7zip seemed slow, not sure if thats trully something wrong.
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rumours out that microsoft will enter the compression market with there own program and format.
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here is the test setup:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/alpha120/powarctest.exeif you get exception, can you send us stack trace like last time please? Thank you!
Hi,
Just got around to testing the file.
I tested it on a VM.
I can confirm that it installed ok, the only configuration required is the right click on a .zip file etc, to choose programme to open with, so that the correct icon shows - other than that, it seems to work normally :-) -
@pjb:
Hi,
Just got around to testing the file.
I tested it on a VM.
I can confirm that it installed ok, the only configuration required is the right click on a .zip file etc, to choose programme to open with, so that the correct icon shows - other than that, it seems to work normally :-)latest download 12.12 also worked fine for me?
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latest download 12.12 also worked fine for me?
Hi,
I just reverted the VM to clean.
I can also confirm that 12.12 installs ok (with both UAC on and UAC off), with same right click - choose default association required. -
i think default association is win8 thing for sure, it wont leave :-). they have done it on purpose.
i bet we can sidetrack it too :)