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.
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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PA 22.00.09
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PA 22.00.09 shows a nag screen, when I try to open some setting windows. I have already PA 2023 Toolbox and PA shows, that it’s licensed in the info dialog.
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PA 22.00.09
Some labels in the help toolbar are not translated:
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I’m looking forward to deploying PowerArchiver 2023 to my users. Can you tell us when the MSI will be available for download and distribution?
Thanks.
Hi there,
there were some security issues fixed in 7zip:
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1165/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1164/
As it seems, that PowerArchiver and PACL use the 7zip libraries, could you please update them to the latest version?
Hi,
From where I get PAVD2023.EXE? PowerArchiver 2023 tries to open it.
But it seems, it tries to download PAVD2021.EXE.
Thanks
I noticed that the version of ZPAQ used is older than the latest released 7.15 https://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html also there seems to be a newer fork that adds several features https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz
It would be useful to implement this latest version (it also maintains the same syntax and behavior as the latest official release if used the -715 flag) and add when opening a zpaq file a choice of the version of the files to show (e.g. as dummy folders represented the various versions present). Since any previous changes are stored with this format, it is possible to extract a snapshot of a certain date/version.
Virtual Drive Issue
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I have reported this before but not pursue it too much here. I use another drive emulator which works perfectly. But I don’t like computers to win!
The problem is that when I mount an image file, a drive letter is not given, and unmounting the image a) does not clear it from the wizard and b) a second attempt causes a BSOD crash. There are no other issues with my Win 7 x64 installation regarding drive letters or partition management.
The virtual drive does work on other windows setups so something strange is going on. I have searched for similar issues and turned up nothing. I am using the latest drivers, viz SPTDinst-v183-x64.
Any ideas?
Regards
DrT
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strange… nobody else reported something similar, maybe something is clashing? Lets see with upcoming 2013, soon.
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I have not got a hope in hell of tracking this down as everything else works fine. I can create drive letters without issue too.
The only hope would be if somebody else were familiar with this. Will 2013 deal with the virtual drive feature identically or will it have been modified in some way?
Regards
DrT
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there is some new code so we will see…
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After reading some other posts about issues being fixed by an uninstall and then a reinstall, I gave it a go and it’s fixed. UPDATE:-only fixed for one go. Does the uninstall clear out all the registry settings? If not, howcan I start from a default install?
Thanks
DrT
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thats strange… beta should be within 7 days.
wait, how come you are not alpha tester?
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Still having the problem with the beta (14.00.16).
I am having the same issue with Starburn software (I believe that you used the SDK?) except that Starburn can remove a non-showing drive. These drives to not appear in Disk Management so I cannot manually add a letter.
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i wish we could reproduce it here somehow, would give us ability to troubleshoot it.
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I am happy to run any tests or debug version or do any registry editing/sleuthing to assist. Do you get any preferential treatment from the StarBurn people as you are developers rather than end users? I have also left a message on their forum.
Regards
DrT
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hi,
i’ve got exactly the same problem with the virtual drive.- i had elby’s virtual clone drive installed.
- uninstalled it, bit didn’t reboot (probably a mistake).
- downloaded and installed virtual drive through patchbeam.
- then tried to mount an iso, which caused windows to try to install a driver, but ended in a loop. tried shutting windows, which didn’t work.
- had to do a hard power off. then reboot.
- after reboot tried again to mount iso, which worked
- dismount iso also worked
- tried mounting the same iso again -> no response
- tried to dismount the iso (which ha no drive letter assigned to it)
- tried again to dismount the iso, which now hat two entrys in the list of mounted drives (again without any drive letters)
-BSOD
i use intel raid storage drivers
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I supplied all the info Starburn requested and they could not see anything wrong. They did not reply to my last email (just come back from hols) so have sent them a ‘bump’.
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I can mount a virtual drive just fine.
And I can unmount it from the system tray. No problem.
However, the “Unmount virtual drive” from within the Windows shell does not work. I DO get a message near the tray saying that the drive is unmounted. However, the drive still shows as an active drive within Windows explorer.
So the problem I have is just with the shell option.
