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PA 2023 22.00.08
Long time no seeing. So I start up the new year with a first problem : the virtual driver cannot be installed. Reason : it is missing in the Fast Ring PatchBeam Update Service…
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It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
Can I have a link or can it be fixed. Thank you. CU later -
When the function for testing archives is invoked via the shell context menu (PowerArchiver > Test) then all the files in the archive get extracted to the current folder.
The test dialog reports as many errors as there are files in the archive but it fails to give any hint as to which files are supposed to be erroneous or what the nature of the problem might be. Comparing the extracted files to the originals shows no differences at all.
The .7z in question was produced with maximised compression settings in 7zip (taking forever but resulting in smaller archives than .7z produced by PowerArchiver with maximised settings). Therefore I wanted to see whether PowerArchiver can at least test .7z that it produced itself. Hence I had PowerArchiver convert a .pa with the same contents to .7z. There weren’t any errors reported but the resulting .7z contained fewer than half of the files contained in the .pa (137 of 366), so I scratched that test.
Performance is abysmal when testing via the context menu (e.g. almost 2 minutes for testing a .7z that 7zip tests in 4 seconds), but that is most likely due to the fact that the extracted files are written to disk. Testing the same .7z in the PowerArchiver GUI takes only 8 seconds but causes the mysterious appearance of a UAC dialog, as reported elsewhere.
The testing function is vital because PowerArchiver has a history of producing archives that it cannot unpack without errors or that do not conform to the respective file format standards (e.g. ZIP) so that other programs report them as erroneous.
The point of creating archives is that the files in them will most likely have to be extracted at some point. If the extraction cannot be guaranteed to produce correct results then the whole program is absolutely pointless. Actually, worse than pointless - it causes data loss and hence damage.
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In PowerArchiver 2023 22.00.06 configuration, the option labelled “Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts” seems to be redundant.
I am only allowed to change this option when PA Starter is disabled, and then it seems to be ignored.
When I enable PA Starter this option is forced to the enabled state.
I think it’d be good to remove “Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts” completely. I’ve always found it confusing having both options.
Added later: However i don’t particularly want to use queue but I do like having the PAStarter icon in my tray area.
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W10 Pro 22H2 - 64 -bit
PA 22.00.06 (PA 2023)
It has been the case with previous versions of PowerArchiver, but I had hoped that the latest might behave differently. Not so, I’m afraid.
I have, for various obscure reasons, created a few .pa archives, mainly in the hope that they will save me some more space. From time to time, I use the “Test” option to check that important archives are OK and uncorrupted.
With every .pa archive I’ve tested, the process runs through OK but then reports that there are errors. This is always the number of files in the archive e.g. if 11 files, then 11 errors reported.
In the .pa, I can:-
preview the files (usually PDF) extract some or all files and look at or use them convert the .pa to a .zip or .zipx archive, which then works fine and tests without errorsIs it the case that the Test routine isn’t designed for .pa archives, or is there another reason? Although the .pa seems to function properly, despite the test reporting errors, I would like to be sure that every .pa is OK and not “broken”.
Some of the .pas are quite old and produced with earlier PA versions (they are truly “archives”). If I extract all the files in the old .pa, create a new, fresh .pa and add back the files to that, then test the new, no errors (at least in the .pa I’ve tried this on) are reported. This would suggest a mismatch between old .pas and newer versions of PA itself.
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PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
Discovered:
a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
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See the, supposedly, blank space where the green box is? It’s like that in Modern Light theme too. I can toggle it, but it’s missing text or shouldn’t be there I guess?
Thanks :)
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Dear @Alpha-Testers and all of our users,
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Please let us know here if you have Mac and can test latest builds.Features implemented:
PowerArchiver 2020 - tabbing, opening, extracting, adding, testing, favorite folders, support for multiple languages, opening via Finder, explorer mode, installer.
PACL 10 - support for most formats and features in Windows version.Upcoming: Tools such as archive converter, batch zip, multi-extract.
To start testing, please sign up here in this thread, and we will send you latest build.
thank you!
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For some reason, the PowerArchiver functions in the Windows 11 context menu no longer work after the last Windows Update. Only the functions in the classic context menu function as they should.
I’ve tried uninstalling PowerArchiver and using RevoUninstaller to remove all bits and pieces that were left behind and did a clean install of PowerArchiver, it didn’t fix the issue. Other items in the Windows 11 context menu work.
PA2015 - JPEG-Compression in ZIPX
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Hello!
In the announcement for PA2015 I read something about full read and write support for ZIPX, while earlier versions could read all ZIPX files but create these only without the special JPEG-compression.
So I had hoped that this means PA2015 is also able to compress JPEGs in ZIPX-format as WinZIP can.
When I tested it (using ZIPX / ultra / optimized) the resulting ZIPX was about 10-20% larger than the one created by WinZIP and JPEGs showed no cokpression at all. Selecten WAVpack or PPMed did not change anything.
Did I make something wrong or did I missunderstand something?
Thanks!
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Hello, addition to ZIPX was XZ codec, which PA 2015 can now both read and write. Nothing to do with JPEG.
Thanks!
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Hello!
Thanks for your reply. So I misunderstood it.
But as JPEG-Compression is almost the only useful part of ZIPX (at least for me) let me ask whether there is any chance this option will be added to PA at some point in the future.
Decompression works already, are there perhaps patent-issues?
a.borque
PS: Just to clarify: I do not mean the image-compression-algos used in original JPEG-format, but WinZIPs addition to ZIPX, which compresses JPEGs another 10-20% without further quality loss! -
Hello!
Thanks for your reply. So I misunderstood it.
But as JPEG-Compression is almost the only useful part of ZIPX (at least for me) let me ask whether there is any chance this option will be added to PA at some point in the future.
Decompression works already, are there perhaps patent-issues?
a.borque
PS: Just to clarify: I do not mean the image-compression-algos used in original JPEG-format, but WinZIPs addition to ZIPX, which compresses JPEGs another 10-20% without further quality loss!yes, there is a strong chance… actually the idea was to do our own, which would be slightly better (or at least 3x faster)… it takes time though.
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Hello!
Thanks for the reply! I am looking forward to it.
Will your “enhanced version” be compatible with to original ZIPX?
a.borque -
Hello!
Thanks for the reply! I am looking forward to it.
Will your “enhanced version” be compatible with to original ZIPX?
a.borqueit is all new jpeg codec, has nothing to do specifically with zipx… so it would not be compatible with WZ, which is probably fine since not many if any actually support reading of jpeg in zipx.
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You are Right, AFAIK PA is the only programme, which supports at least decompression of ZIPXed JPEGs. E.g. WinRAR and 7-Zip don’t support this part of the format.
I hope your solution will offer a better documentation, so it can be used (at least for decompression) in other programmes and on other platforms (Mac, Linux, …).