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.
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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PA 22.00.09
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PA 22.00.09 shows a nag screen, when I try to open some setting windows. I have already PA 2023 Toolbox and PA shows, that it’s licensed in the info dialog.
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PA 22.00.09
Some labels in the help toolbar are not translated:
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I’m looking forward to deploying PowerArchiver 2023 to my users. Can you tell us when the MSI will be available for download and distribution?
Thanks.
Hi there,
there were some security issues fixed in 7zip:
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1165/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1164/
As it seems, that PowerArchiver and PACL use the 7zip libraries, could you please update them to the latest version?
Hi,
From where I get PAVD2023.EXE? PowerArchiver 2023 tries to open it.
But it seems, it tries to download PAVD2021.EXE.
Thanks
I noticed that the version of ZPAQ used is older than the latest released 7.15 https://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html also there seems to be a newer fork that adds several features https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz
It would be useful to implement this latest version (it also maintains the same syntax and behavior as the latest official release if used the -715 flag) and add when opening a zpaq file a choice of the version of the files to show (e.g. as dummy folders represented the various versions present). Since any previous changes are stored with this format, it is possible to extract a snapshot of a certain date/version.
New Windows Explorer Icons
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I’ve installed PA 2016 16.00.43, and I’d like to comment about the new Windows Explorer icons.
Basically, they’re very bad, specially in the standard Details view mode. The old icons were clear, sharp, with a defined shape and a small piece of text in them that showed the compression type at a glance. The new PA 2016 file type icons, on the contrary, are (as far as I can notice) fuzzy more or less square-y shaped colored blobs, and so indistinct from everything else that I have absolutely no idea, by its icon alone, whether I’m looking at a compressed file or if it’s some executable or a rare document type.
This is so bad that now, to find compressed files in a folder, I must click the “Type” column so as to sort files by type, and then scroll until I find the “PowerArchiver” entries.
The attached screenshot shows an example of how confusing this can be. Try to spot the compressed files at a glance. If you’re like me, you thought “the 7Z one”, and completely missed the .zip and the .tar.gz ones.
So, please, before releasing PA 2016 fix these icons so that they’re at least as sharp, immediately recognizable and good usability-wise as the previous ones were, or if that’s not possible, please bring back the old icons back until you can actually fix the new ones.
Thanks! :)
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I’ve installed PA 2016 16.00.43, and I’d like to comment about the new Windows Explorer icons.
Basically, they’re very bad, specially in the standard Details view mode. The old icons were clear, sharp, with a defined shape and a small piece of text in them that showed the compression type at a glance. The new PA 2016 file type icons, on the contrary, are (as far as I can notice) fuzzy more or less square-y shaped colored blobs, and so indistinct from everything else that I have absolutely no idea, by its icon alone, whether I’m looking at a compressed file or if it’s some executable or a rare document type.
This is so bad that now, to find compressed files in a folder, I must click the “Type” column so as to sort files by type, and then scroll until I find the “PowerArchiver” entries.
The attached screenshot shows an example of how confusing this can be. Try to spot the compressed files at a glance. If you’re like me, you thought “the 7Z one”, and completely missed the .zip and the .tar.gz ones.
So, please, before releasing PA 2016 fix these icons so that they’re at least as sharp, immediately recognizable and good usability-wise as the previous ones were, or if that’s not possible, please bring back the old icons back until you can actually fix the new ones.
Thanks! :)
Latest release:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/powarc160055.exeCheck them out… they dont have extension writing on them, but are hand drawn now at 16px.
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Latest release:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/powarc160055.exeCheck them out… they dont have extension writing on them, but are hand drawn now at 16px.
These may be an improvement, but personally I’d still like to be able to choose the old set somehow.
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HI.
For me I like the old Icons from Powerarchiver 2015 more.
In the Explorer I see at once which compression is used and the Icons have an better contrast.Is it possible to bring the Explorer Icons from Powerarchiver 2015 bag to Powerarchiver 2016?
MfG
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HI.
For me I like the old Icons from Powerarchiver 2015 more.
In the Explorer I see at once which compression is used and the Icons have an better contrast.Is it possible to bring the Explorer Icons from Powerarchiver 2015 bag to Powerarchiver 2016?
MfG
MDusseverything is possible for our great users!
I am thinking about creating icon packs for formats with all of PA’s currently available icons so far (from 1999 until today). Main problem is making icon cache refresh itself but it should not be hard.
thanks everyone for suggestions!
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I have here an Virtual PC running with Powerarchiver 2015. So if someone wanted the Explorer Icons from 2015 I can pack them in an archive and postetd it here.
MfG
MDuss
