Powerarchiver is dead no updates to fix bugs no new features, no communication and errors in program update system with scripting errors. Duplicate context menus windows 11 no fixes no updates
I declare that this is the last version.
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Yes, that’s correct. UltimateZip was indeed a product of the same company that developed PowerArchiver, and it was essentially a rebranded version of PowerArchiver. It was discontinued and replaced by PowerArchiver.
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?
Compress from shell got killed by update after closing another GUI instance
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I just had a 80% complete job that had been running for >24 hours killed by the stupid patchbeam updater, after closing another instance of the PowerArchiver GUI.
Needless to say, I am 100% seeing red!
The updater should NOT kill ANY running jobs!!
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Hello,
Sorry you had an unwanted experience.
There are a few prompts asking you to use patchbeam before upgrade starts.
Can you provide some more detail as to what exactly happened? Patchbeam closed PowerArchiver while it was working?Thanks!
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Sorry, I see now in my hasted anger I forgot to post the details.
In explorer, I selected a folder and from the shell menu chose “Compress to folder.7z”. This then opened a window with the compression progress.
Completely unrelated to that, about a day later, I opened a PA GUI window, NO archives, I just wanted to check some settings (specifically, if there are any ‘multi-thread’ options). After I closed this GUI, my other dialog stated ‘cancelling’, closed after a while and then PatchBeam opened and updated my PA. -
In the case of PA 2015, full Patchbeam has not yet activated. So it just downloads the installer right now. Installer when it starts actually doing the update, will want to replace powerarc.exe, in order to update it.
Are you sure that you did not have to manually advanced through installer though? I think first step should be manual.
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Maybe I am so used to PatchBeam doing the updates that I mistyped what happened. I remember that the installer was run, yes, but AFTER my ‘shell compress job’ got killed. That is the important bit.
So, the steps as I recall:
- shell compress was running
- GUI opened and closed
- shell compress got nuked
- update was downloaded/installed
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Maybe I am so used to PatchBeam doing the updates that I mistyped what happened. I remember that the installer was run, yes, but AFTER my ‘shell compress job’ got killed. That is the important bit.
So, the steps as I recall:
- shell compress was running
- GUI opened and closed
- shell compress got nuked
- update was downloaded/installed
It is installer that kills instance of anything that it has to replace, so it has to be done during install process - Patchbeam or PA do not have ability to do this.
Now, we run installer in reduced mode when you are updating from Patchbeam. So I will check if we show enough dialogues during update. If I remember correctly, we do, but I will check to make sure. Most people usually just click through it super fast though.
But in general, for the future, it would be safe to assume that update will close all instances of anything that it is updating. This is always pa.exe at least. There is no really a way around it except for not updating when PA is running of course.
thanks!
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I’m assuming POWERARC.EXE will only ever be loaded/running if either the GUI is open or it’s actively doing an archive operation. Are there any other cases where the EXE would be loaded?
In the first case, probably not many people would care if the EXE got killed to update the app…
In the second case (the OP’s case) could you not have some sort of callback to some module in the PA stack that the installer could use to see if there are active operations running - and if so, abort the update?