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.
Confusing folders bar options
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I am not quite sure how do describe this. But I will give it a whirl.
I want to (a) select “Explorer with Folders,” and (b) I do NOT want “show archive folders” (indeed, I am not even quite sure what that is). But if I have BOTH selected, then in the FTP window, I have THREE panes: the explorer pane, the archive folders pane, and the server pane. I don’t want three.
If I deselect “Show archivefolders” in the view config menu, then it delects show “Explorer with Folders.” It conjures up the sense that I am Yossarian (Catch-22).
Perhaps I am missing something. But I kept finding “Show Archive folders” checked time and time again. I think that when I chose “Explorer with Folders” that it also select SAF.
I THINK MAYBE THERE’S AN OPTION YOU ARE TRYING TO PROVIDE . . . AND I DON’T GET IT. IF SAF IS CHECKED, THEN IT CHANGES MY SELECTION FROM “EXPLORER WITH FOLDERS” TO JUST “EXPLORER DISPLAY.”
BUT THEN THE LEFT PANE SOMETIMES JUST SAYS “FOLDERS,” BUT, E.G., IN THE FTP TAB, IT SAYS “ARCHIVE FOLDERS” – EVEN IF I AM NOT IN AN ARCHIVE.
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just pick explorer display style and not explorer with folders, does that work?
you are correct - it returns the folders bar despite you click X, because selection is Explorer with Folders… i guess it should change the select to Explorer display style in that case, as well?
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it does work fine for me, maybe you are turning it on/off in different way than me? I am using selection in the status bar. Thanks!
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In the end, I am not worried about what we call it.
I was thrown inasmuch as I have always used (and wanted) explorer with folders. And I find it odd that the file list in the home pane is just called “folders” while in the FTP pane it is called “archive folders.”
there may well be a reason for the set up. But I kept checking one box or option, only to find other boxes or options were changed. I was confused (and still am).
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I can turn it on and off. That’s no problem. It’s just that my selection changes once I uncheck “Show Archive Folders” in the “View” configuration tab.
It is the interplay of those options that I am finding confusing.
Perhaps there is not supposed to be an interplay. But there is. I can send a video if need be.
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video on the way to your email.
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As I said, this is hard to explain. And I am not doing well. Let me try again. I thought the video might help.
First, you have “Explorer (with folders)” in two places: one, on the status bar; two, in the left middle section of the View tab on the config menu. Though they have the same name, they operate differently (the status bar drop down option seems to trump the one in the config menu – which doesn’t make sense to me). The “View Archive Folders Bar” (top of the View config tab) seems as if it ought to control something different (the layout when the user is within an archive). But it doesn’t play well with the drop down option on the status bar. And, although the labels don’t matter all that much, it leads to either (depending on the other choices), a different column heading on the left pane of the FTP tab (when compared to the left column header on the Home tab), or, if VAFB and EWF’s option from the status bar are both checked, then there are three distinct columns on the FTP tab: folders column, archive column, and server side (not sure what it is properly called) column.
See below (or attached):
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I remain perplexed.
1. I thought View Archive Folders had a special function different from that of displaying folders in explorer. However, if I uncheck VAF, and then select from the status bar, (a) VAF is suddenly checked again, AND (b) the status bar drop down menu is back to just plain Explorer display (not Explorer with Folders).
2. And why not delete ONE of the two places where the user can select “Explorer with folders”? I would have thought the config menu option trumped the one on the status bar. I thought wrong.
Probably I am just misunderstanding what these choices are supposed to do. But I assume if I misunderstand, some ordinary users will too.
Could you explain what’s what?
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It is same option, so you can check it directly in Configuration or as quick option in status bar… Configuration has all of the PA options regardless if some of them are available in status or menus.
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Not quite. The one in the status bar trumps the one in the config menu.
And the one in the status bar checks VAF in the config shell extension tab, even if iit was previously unchecked.
As m images about show:: some show “Folders” in the list in the left pane, and some show “Archive.” Also check the video I sent Mili that shows what happens.
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Not quite. The one in the status bar trumps the one in the config menu.
And the one in the status bar checks VAF in the config shell extension tab, even if iit was previously unchecked.
these are same options, so if you check it in status, it will be checked in config… if you uncheck it in config, it will be unchecked in status as well. It only depends on what action you did last, it does not matter where you checked/unchecked it.
Same goes for any other option in status bar or menus. They are all provided in config because config should have all of them in one place.
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Sigh.
If you look at my pics and my video, that is not what happens to me. . and hasn’t been since the first of the new updates.
However, let me ask for the fifth time: What does “View Archive Folders” do? Either it does something different than “View Folders” in Explorer. Or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, why is it there since there are controls TWO different places (and, in fact, if you look at my pics and video it DOES do something different.
Actually, I will not be checking to see your response. But SOMETHING HERE IS AMISS.
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I didnt see the video, Mili is out now… so he will let me know tomorrow and I will check it out… it is nothing to get worked up about though! Thanks Hugh.