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).
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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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.
Very, very slow
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I have been a long time user and have usually upgraded pretty much every year but wow, did this application get slow.
1.9 GB file compressing using LZMA2 with Ultra on a i7-3770 w/20 GB of ram
PowerArchiver took 12.28 minutes and compressed the file to 430 MB
RAR 5 took 2:15 minutes and compressed the file down to 481 MB. Keep in mind that I bought this once back many years ago and my license key still works. No yearly upgrades required.
7-ZIP took 4:02 minutes and compressed the file down to 414 MB. This is free
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I have been a long time user and have usually upgraded pretty much every year but wow, did this application get slow.
1.9 GB file compressing using LZMA2 with Ultra on a i7-3770 w/20 GB of ram
PowerArchiver took 12.28 minutes and compressed the file to 430 MB
RAR 5 took 2:15 minutes and compressed the file down to 481 MB. Keep in mind that I bought this once back many years ago and my license key still works. No yearly upgrades required.
7-ZIP took 4:02 minutes and compressed the file down to 414 MB. This is free
LZMA2 is slow for us, as always, as we can use only 1 core (otherwise 7zip dll crashes when used by PA)… LZMA is 2x faster since it is multicore.
Something hopefully we can improve for next version finally.
Where PA is fastest is ZIP compression and RAR extraction (right now we are using standard unrar due to new version 5.xx, but will be again faster than standard unrar by the end of the year once we have time to apply optimizations).
Only problem we have with compression/extract speed right now is LZMA2 which simply crashes our application when multicore is used.
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LZMA2 was developed to take advantage of multiple cores. It is MUCH faster than LZMA with more cores. What computer these days don’t have multiple cores? Heck, even my phone has more cores than what PA can handle without crashing.
So it isn’t as fast as WinRar 5 when dealing with rar files, everything blows it out of the water with 7zip files and you are still developing for machines made 10 years ago. PA is spending too much time trying to make the application look pretty but going backwards with what goes on with the actual compression. Yeah, I think it is time to move on
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LZMA2 was developed to take advantage of multiple cores. It is MUCH faster than LZMA with more cores. What computer these days don’t have multiple cores? Heck, even my phone has more cores than what PA can handle without crashing.
So it isn’t as fast as WinRar 5 when dealing with rar files, everything blows it out of the water with 7zip files and you are still developing for machines made 10 years ago. PA is spending too much time trying to make the application look pretty but going backwards with what goes on with the actual compression. Yeah, I think it is time to move on
as I mentioned before, 7zip dll crashes when LZMA2 is used on multicore inside PA. It is not like we dont want it to be multicore, but we have to work around it. There is no going backwards, it never worked properly with LZMA2.
So right now, if you are only using LZMA2, then PA is not a good choice. For everything else, PA is excellent choice, probably the best even if I am biased to say so.
Hopefully this gets solved in next major update since we are moving to new version of programming toolset that should be more compatible with dll’s that might cause problems, but it requires rework of everything we have in PA so far. It is big undertaking that we started last year and it requires a lot of testing to make sure everything works properly.