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I’m trying to backup the complete contents of a directory using:
pacomp64 -parcz T:\BACKUP.PA C:\STUFF
The contents of subdirectories of C:\STUFF isn’t getting backed up!
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How do I achieve this ; show me a command line example !
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Hello @Mili,
thanks for your help in getting my PowerArchiver CommandLine license (Re: License Code Not Working / Missing) and sorry for my late reply. I do check my spam folder regularly and couldn’t find a mail from support. Also, there was no mail in my backups or any mention of it in my email logs.
I have a question regarding my licenses in the hope you are able to help me:
While my account lists “PowerArchiver Select - lifetime free upgrades and support for PowerArchiver Toolbox English - Count 2”, this does not apply for PACL, which was included with my purchase. My account shows only PowerArchiver Select - 12 months of upgrades and support for PowerArchiver Command Line - Single User License.Since PACL was included with PowerArchiver Toolbox, shouldn’t PACL also come with a lifetime license for 2 PCs?
Thanks for your help in advance.
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Version:
PACL 9.00 Beta 2What’s New since version PACL 7:
Updated to PowerArchiver 2017 engine Fully unicode interface RAR v5 (v4) support PAE2 supportLatest format support and all the various engine updates done in PA 2017.
Full support for .PA format with many different options and switches.Download:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2017/PACL900-170429.EXEDue to the support of new PA format and all the changes needed for that support, we decided to move up version number to PACL 9. This is purely cosmetical - companies who purchased PACL8, have PACL9 now added to their orders. Users who have free upgrades for PACL8, now have PACL9 added as free upgrade (Business users with active select (pro/tbx), all personal users (pro/tbx).
Since we are finalizing PA 2017, we can also now spend a lot more time on PACL9.
Please check your bugs, and check .PA support as well.
Thank you! @Alpha-Testers
PA Team
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My OS: Windows XP Home Edition, SP3
The version number and date of the program: PowerArchiver Command Line v9.00b [Feb 23 2019]The program not extracts one self-extracting file.
How to reproduce the problem
Download the SFX file by link: install.exe
paext32 -o+ -p"install" "install.exe"
Copy the “install.exe” file into the same location as the program is located.
Go to the DOS prompt. Make your PACL location the default drive.
If it is on the E drive enter the command E: and press enter. Replace “E:” with the appropriate drive letter.
Enter command cd e:<path name> to go to the location where the program resides.
Enter command:As a result, the “install” directory will not be created and no
files will be extracted.The “install.exe” file may be damaged but if you use a program such as 7-Zip or PeaZip to extract the files, the extraction process is successful. I want the PACL to also unpack such a file.
This problem is very critical for me. I often come across this. I do not want to resort to using other compression program.… Michael
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Hi,
there’s a problem with PAComp and file names with a leading ".\ ".
That’s nowadays a problem, since PowerShell auto complete will complete a file test.zip in the current directory to .\test.zip.0_1524826660985_pacomp.png
The first command reports “All OK”, but test.7z is not created.
The second command reports an error, but the error message isn’t helpful at all. VSS doesn’t help anything if a program fails to write to a file. It’s for reading locked files… And the problematic file isn’t mentioned at all. By the way, there’s a typo, it should be “open”, not “opet”.
Only the third command (without ".\ ") works as expected.The problem exists in the x86 and x64 version, it doesn’t matter if the archive already exists (updating) or not (creating a new archive).
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would be nice to have czip support
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Version:
PACL 8.00 Beta 1Whats New:
Updated to PowerArchiver 2016 engine Fully unicode interface RAR v5 (v4) support PAE2 support Latest format support such as improved ZIPX, ISO, etc, etc, etc.Download:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/pacl800b1.exePlease test it against your existing scripts and let us know. There will be some features added in future release as well as more testing.
This is first release, please test. Thank you!
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I am Having Appcrash mid problem in my Pc.
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Hi,
I’ve made changes to fix some problems with PAConv.bat:
1. Replaced the “” by () in the first two lines, so that it’ll work with command line arguments in quotation marks
if (%1)==() goto help if (%2)==() goto help SET PATMPDIR=%TEMP%\$PATEMP$.%time::=% if exist "%PATMPDIR%" rmdir /s /q "%PATMPDIR%" mkdir "%PATMPDIR%" paext -e -d -p"%PATMPDIR%" "%~1" echo. pacomp -a -r -p -w "%~2" "%PATMPDIR%\*.*" echo. rmdir /s /q "%PATMPDIR%" SET PATMPDIR=
2. Replaced deltree with rmdir, since deltree is unknown at least in Windows XP and later
3. Also replaced the del command, which left an empty $PATEMP$ directory with rmdir
4. Changed $PATEMP$ to “%TEMP%$PATEMP$.%time::=%”, so that no write privileges are needed in the current directory as the users Temp directory is used and that more operations will work simultaneous, as long as they are not started at the very same time.
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Why cant i edit my profile details? in my account
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PACL 8.0.
What new features do you guys want from it?
Current list for 8.0
RAR 5.x support. Latest ZIP/ZIPX engine with even better performance. Updated rest of engines with latest support for all file formats.Possibly:
New PAF format testing.Other things like better logs or what else do we need?
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Is it possible to encrypt file names as well as archive itself using pacl?
I know you can do this using Power Archiver but not sure about pacl.
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I spent many hours trying to figure out how to use PACOMP to add about 50 Gb to a spanned 7z archive with AES256 encryption, and have yet to be successful.
I’ve tried every combination of switches I can think of, with no success. Can someone offer a combination of switches that is known to work for this kind of task?
All I have been able to make is a set of spanned files that PA cannot open.
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Hi
I am trying to understand what is default encryption method for PACOMP -fips command?
And what is the difference if you specify encryption method using e[0,1,2] command?
Using only FIPS:
pacomp -a -ssecret -fips -p stuff.bh “c:\my stuff*.*”FIPS combined with e2
pacomp -a -ssecret -fips -e2 -p stuff.bh “c:\my stuff*.*” -
How can I add comment to archive using pacl pacomp?
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Hi All
I have archive that holds password protected, encrypted data which is created using something like this:
C:\Temp\ZipTest>pacomp -a -spassword -fips -e2 archive.zip "C:\Temp\ZipTest" -x"C:\Temp\ZipTest\ReadMe.txt"Then I add regular file into that archive which is not encrypted and not password protected. “ReamMe.txt” sort of file. Using command below.
C:\Temp\ZipTest>pacomp -a archive.zip "C:\Temp\ZipTest\ReadMe.txt"Now when I extract this archive using:
paext -spassword -p"C:\ZipTest\Temp" archive.zipEverything extracts correctly except for ReadMe.txt file. File is present but content is empty.
error: extracting: ReadMe.txt --> CRC ERROR! [100%]
I get followingHow can I extract archive without corruption ReadMe.txt file?
PACL 8.0 Beta 1
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Version:
PACL 8.00 Beta 1Whats New:
- Updated to PowerArchiver 2016 engine
- Fully unicode interface
- RAR v5 (v4) support
- PAE2 support
- Latest format support such as improved ZIPX, ISO, etc, etc, etc.
Download:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/pacl800b1.exePlease test it against your existing scripts and let us know. There will be some features added in future release as well as more testing.
This is first release, please test. Thank you!
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Thank you!! Finally 4 years of waiting!
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When the archive is password protected, den extracting it it will ask for the password, den it’ll keep asking until completed extract it.
Why not first time asking the password den it’ll complete extract the archive.
I know I can use this argument -s<pwd>. But why not once asking password den the rest auto use the existing password?</pwd>
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When the archive is password protected, den extracting it it will ask for the password, den it’ll keep asking until completed extract it.
Why not first time asking the password den it’ll complete extract the archive.
I know I can use this argument -s<pwd>. But why not once asking password den the rest auto use the existing password?</pwd>
if you would be kind enough to open a thread in wishlist part of pacl forums, we will take a look.
Thing is - ZIP archive can have individual compression and password to every file. So by default, it is ask each time. Most people use PACL for .bat so nobody suggested it before.
We can probably make it like in PA, where it keeps going with same password until error comes up.
Thanks!
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Yup I understand that, overall is excellent ^_^
A little suggestion, if something prompt user to enter password, shouldn’t it shown asterisk instead sensitive info?
Anyway any timeline expected final version?
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Yup I understand that, overall is excellent ^_^
A little suggestion, if something prompt user to enter password, shouldn’t it shown asterisk instead sensitive info?
Anyway any timeline expected final version?
do you mean filename? It is not encrypted inside zip archive, only inside pae2 archives.
Beta 2 is coming soon, if you have any other wishes or suggestions, please let us know… it is more likely than not that it will be included in beta 2 :-)
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This works:
J:>pacomp -a -r -p bin.7z c:\bin*This seems to fail to produce any output file:
C:>pacomp -a -r -p j:\bin.7z \bin* -
This:
C:>pacomp -a -r -p j:\bin.zip \bin*Also behaves a a bit oddly if I do it twice.
The second time only a few files get re-added to the ZIP file.
Doing:
C:>attrib \bin*reveals that the only files that get re-added are the ones showing the I attribute.
This is all under Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
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J:>pacomp -a -r -p bin.zip c:\bin*
behaves the same as in previous meesage.But this is a bit different:
J:>pacomp -a -r -p \bin.zip c:\bin*
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL) Unicode Version 8.00 [Dec 21 2015]
Copyright© 1998-2015 ConeXware, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
This product is licensed to: Brian Gregory
Archive Compression Utility – ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2
Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com Email: support@conexware.comArchive: \bin.zip
preparing to compress…
adding: Rar.exe --> Done. [20%]
adding: Rar.txt –> Done. [20%]
adding: RarFiles.lst –> Done. [20%]
adding: UnRAR.exe –> Done. [21%]*** ERROR: Cannot opet file
Check that file is not in use, or use -uvss for VSS support1 error(s) encountered
J:>
I will now double check everything by rebooting and if necessary re-installing PACL
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Still the same after reinstalling PACL 8.00 Beta 1 and rebooting.
Including odd spelling “Cannot opet file”.
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@Brian:
Still the same after reinstalling PACL 8.00 Beta 1 and rebooting.
Including odd spelling “Cannot opet file”.
thanks for testing, since PACL does not need installation and is self sufficient, usually re-install wont fix anything.
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thanks for testing, since PACL does not need installation and is self sufficient, usually re-install wont fix anything.
I was thinking maybe the files had got corrupted since the bugs seemed more extreme than I thought was likely.
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We should have PACL 8.0 x64 beta 2 available for testing this month, i hope… it should not be much longer in any case. Just an heads up!
Thank you!
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That’s cool~ Thank you!
We should have PACL 8.0 x64 beta 2 available for testing this month, i hope… it should not be much longer in any case. Just an heads up!
Thank you!
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Hi, I’ve just tried to install PACL 8.0 Beta 1 and got the very misleading error message “Unknown compression type (currently only ZIP 2.0 is supported)” which suggests that the installer is corrupted.
The real problem was, that the installer is not UAC aware and I tried to install PACL into my program files folder without explicitly running it with elevated privileges.
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Hi, I’ve just tried to install PACL 8.0 Beta 1 and got the very misleading error message “Unknown compression type (currently only ZIP 2.0 is supported)” which suggests that the installer is corrupted.
The real problem was, that the installer is not UAC aware and I tried to install PACL into my program files folder without explicitly running it with elevated privileges.
Mike, it is just an SFX… it does not know anything about UAC. Maybe we should make it UAC aware in the future. Thanks!
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Hi spwolf,
an UAC aware SFX module would be great, but at least the error message should point the user into the right direction
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I don’t think a UAC aware SFX module makes much sense, unless it’s optional and you choose UAC aware or not UAC aware when creating the SFX archive. You normally don’t want a self extractor to be able to elevate itself in the hands of inexperienced users who might extract documents in to inappropriate places.
The error message just needs to correctly state the nature of the problem. “Insufficient privileges to write to …”
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Hi spwolf,
an UAC aware SFX module would be great, but at least the error message should point the user into the right direction
as usual, problem with error messages is that module has to be aware of user permissions and uac in this case… so thats long way into actually making it work, not just show error message.
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@Brian:
I don’t think a UAC aware SFX module makes much sense, unless it’s optional and you choose UAC aware or not UAC aware when creating the SFX archive. You normally don’t want a self extractor to be able to elevate itself in the hands of inexperienced users who might extract documents in to inappropriate places.
The error message just needs to correctly state the nature of the problem. “Insufficient privileges to write to …”
for regular SFX I agree… but it would be nice addition to our SFX that delivers PACL.
We have to build new SFX that takes advantage of .pa format anyway.
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for regular SFX I agree… but it would be nice addition to our SFX that delivers PACL.
We have to build new SFX that takes advantage of .pa format anyway.
Then why not go the whole way and make a proper install program.
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@Brian:
Then why not go the whole way and make a proper install program.
you mean for PACL? It does not need it. It never writes anything to the registry, it is self sufficient. Am I too old school for thinking it should not be “installed”?
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I don’t know how much work writing an installer and creating an UAC aware SFX module are.
- Having an UAC aware SFX module would be nice for all people distributing software in SFX archives, as the target directory is mostly C:\Program Files<afolder>. So not only PACL would benefit from this.
- I understand your point that this is probably unneeded and unwanted for inexperienced users and archives which don’t contain programs. But a better error message like “insufficient write privileges” would be extremely helpful in this case.</afolder>
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you mean for PACL? It does not need it. It never writes anything to the registry, it is self sufficient. Am I too old school for thinking it should not be “installed”?
I agree.
And that’s why I myself would never put it in a out of site folder under “C:\Program Files” where I might forget about it and would need elevated privileges to put it there.
I always put PACL somewhere else like C:\PACL so that I know it wasn’t “installed” in the usual sense and therefore I will always know what to do should I need to remove it later.
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I don’t know how much work writing an installer and creating an UAC aware SFX module are.
- Having an UAC aware SFX module would be nice for all people distributing software in SFX archives, as the target directory is mostly C:\Program Files<afolder>. So not only PACL would benefit from this.
- I understand your point that this is probably unneeded and unwanted for inexperienced users and archives which don’t contain programs. But a better error message like “insufficient write privileges” would be extremely helpful in this case.</afolder>
BikMike, I was thinking about PACL installer, which is an SFX… not actually creating an installer software in general :-).
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