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.
PA being stopped by WIndows
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I don’t enjoy sitting around and watching backups run so they are usually scheduled to run when I am out on a long bike ride, I just make sure the drive is plugged in before I go and I check it all ran ok when I get back … but … I have started getting a message displayed when I return, asking (think it is Windows) that a program from Core something wants to run … I click ok, PA says it could not write to a few files, then a warning about if I am using Vista, then continues.
How can I stop this?
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screenshot maybe? Seems like it is skipping some files that might be in use?
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Another backup scheduled in 10 minutes … will see what happens.
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Should have reported this before, it worked perfectly! Also rebooted and tried again, same result.
Will post screen dumps if it occurs again.
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Today’s backup was fine, will see how tomorrow’s go.
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In the middle of a backup, got a dialog box saying PowerArchiver.exe wants to run, a Windows dialog. I tried to take a screen dump, had to clear message (everything was disabled) to paste into paint but it took wrong monitor. Then PA stops, error attached. -
Happened again today, Windows box appears (the standard one when a program wants to run, that does not straight permission or something), saying Power Archiver from Conexware . At this stage (as usual) Windows disables the screen, so I cannot seem to get a screen dump.
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Deleted the backup, and tried to re-do it … same problem.
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Problem happened doing my VM backups, so whilst it was disabled I managed to get a screen dump from the host … the program here was patchbeam but usually it is just PA.
Ken
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Problem happened doing my VM backups, so whilst it was disabled I managed to get a screen dump from the host … the program here was patchbeam but usually it is just PA.
Ken
Ken - Patchbeam is just checking for updates to PowerArchiver. So it has nothing to do with backup. You can disable it if you want in Configuration.
When it comes to error message - make sure you enable logging in backups, and then check what file it happens with. It means that it can not access certain file, usually these are in use by some other application at that time.
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after you figure out which file it happens with, you can enable VSS in backup for that file format…
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Ok, I will enable logging.
But I know which files, I sat and watched, when I get that Windows box (second above, except it says powerarchiver.exe) everything is greyed, and in the list of files backed up errors start to appear. When I click that box to allow it, all starts up again ok, except for those file errors when it was grey.
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Ok, I will enable logging.
But I know which files, I sat and watched, when I get that Windows box (second above, except it says powerarchiver.exe) everything is greyed, and in the list of files backed up errors start to appear. When I click that box to allow it, all starts up again ok, except for those file errors when it was grey.
ok, so you can use vss settings for these files to make sure they are backed up.