The Windows 11 context menu for PowerArchiver on normal files (to be compressed, etc.) is now showing multiple tiers with two identical menus. See attached captures of the issue:
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Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
OS build 26100.2605
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.
Minimize toolbar/ribbon question
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In two of the windows (FTP and backup), when I switch to the tab, part of the windows are cut off.
I must click on the window and scroll to see them.
See the attached images.
THOUGHT IT WASN’T A PROBLEM . . . BUT IT IS.
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I couldn’t get the same result on my system buddy…
all seemed fine on this end…sorry. -
I am perplexed.
One other comments; two questions.
Not only am I facing the problem above, I had some trouble getting the View / explorer style (with folders) to stick. Although it momentarily seems to work. BTW, I am using modern toolbar 2010 black skin.
I can see the window normally if I 1) click the tab, and 2) then click in the PA window (the ribbon collapses and the presentation of the files looks like). In the past, I thought things looked fine even with the ribbon open. In fact I don’t think the clicking in the main PA window made the ribbon disappear.
I prefer the QAT before the ribbon. But with the ribbon open now, it covers the QAT.
Looking at the registry. Should I delete the PA that doesn’t say INT? Also with PowerArchiverInt I have 3 registry keys: Toolbar, DToolbar2, and DToolbar4. Is that normal?
Or should I perhaps do a complete uninstall and reinstall?
And I don’t see the test button anywhere on my toolbar. Unlike Luxor, I did not see it under tools.
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I couldn’t get the same result on my system buddy…
all seemed fine on this end…sorry.Can’t seem to recreate it here neither.
But just because others can’t recreate it doesn’t mean that it’s not a bug.
Trust me I’ve been there. ;)Could you perhaps highlight the area in question in your screen-shots, just in case I’m misunderstanding the problem. (probably not but you never know) ;)
And I don’t see the test button anywhere on my toolbar. Unlike Luxor, I did not see it under tools.
:D
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I cannot got back and mark up the pics I sent. But please go back and look at them. On one, when the ribbon is open, the QAT and the top line of the main window is blocked.
In the other, to see the main window and QAT, the ribbon collapses.
Could the registry settings I asked about matter?
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I cannot got back and mark up the pics I sent. But please go back and look at them. On one, when the ribbon is open, the QAT and the top line of the main window is blocked.
In the other, to see the main window and QAT, the ribbon collapses.
That’s what I thought you meant, just wanted to be sure.
@Socrates:Could the registry settings I asked about matter?
I’ve no idea. I would wait for input from either spwolf or Mili on that one.
They may require you to send your registry settings to try and find the problem, so leave it alone until they tell you different. -
yeah, send over the registry please…
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I take it, the same thing is not happening with you?
This is a quirk I have never seen in PA.
I DID install .22 very early yesterday. Then I saw you (or Moles?) posting about test – and I could find test AT ALL – I thought maybe it was something they had quickly fixed, so I tried to install what I thought was the later .22 (it actually did a “repair”)
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test is when you open archive, you will see in the Home ribbon, under Tools tab, Tools icon… click on it and dropdown will give you several extra tools including Test.
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(not in Tools ribbon, in Home ribbon)
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here we go.
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(not in Tools ribbon, in Home ribbon)
See. You hid it so well you can’t remember where it is. :D
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while i am already creating screenshots….
we did it because german/french and probably few other translations ended up looking like these due to extra characters in button names.
as you can see from above pic and this one, it was really messy to use.
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ah, i get it… you minimized the ribbon possibly and then you clicked once on backup, in that case, ribbon toolbar goes over window.
you need to doubleclick again on the backup, but doubleclick, and then ribbon will go back to its own space.
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The complete uninstall and reinstall solved all the problems sans one.
I don’t get the little pop-up preview option, as shown in Sir Richard’s pic.
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you have to click on file that can be previewed, it is context sensitive…
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you have to click on file that can be previewed, it is context sensitive…
For example a .jpg, .txt or .pdf file
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Sorry. It has to be a previewable file. My bad,