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PA2023 Win10, (same problem with older releases but never reported)
PA Soft is installed on partition D. (exclusive for installed progs)
Then I created on my partition G: the folders as configured in PA Settings ‘Folders’.0fcf1b09-1b91-4b74-b250-f8cf908a3348-Ashampoo_Snap_maandag 20 maart 2023_11h54m34s.png
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The problem : Any activity on PA is saved in these folders…
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I am still using Powerarchiver 2022 and it does not show pdf markups in the preview. Is there a setting to get version 2022 to show pdf markups in the preview? If not, does this work in version 2023?
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The question that I have about PA archives is what happens if say ConeXware, as a company, dies in the future? What happens to any PA files that are created today? Can these files be decompressed with a copy of a PowerArchiver that can no longer phone home to the mothership thus can’t be registered or activated?
I mean, I can understand that new PA files wouldn’t be able to be created if the program isn’t registered but what about an un-registered copy because well, the question that I posed above?
It’s questions like this that make me not want to store anything really valuable in PA files out of fear that I, at some point in the future, might lose access to said data inside those files. OK, 7ZIP might not be able to compress as heavily as PA but at least it’s open source and any 7ZIP files will still be able to be read and decompressed ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.
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For some reason, the PowerArchiver functions in the Windows 11 context menu no longer work after the last Windows Update. Only the functions in the classic context menu function as they should.
I’ve tried uninstalling PowerArchiver and using RevoUninstaller to remove all bits and pieces that were left behind and did a clean install of PowerArchiver, it didn’t fix the issue. Other items in the Windows 11 context menu work.
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Is this a known problem? Is there a fix coming? This is a primary reason I buy PA.
I’ve tried both methods I know to extract multiple zips at the same time. 1) Multi Extract feature in the GUI. 2) In Windows File Explorer, select multiple zips, right click, use PA context menu to Extract or Extract To…
Is there a setting I missed? Or maybe it really is processing in parallel, but I can’t detect it? Nothing tells me in the Processes in Task Manager that multiple PA extracts are running. And my CPU, memory and disk resources do not look like a lot of extracts are running.
I’m using PA 2022 Standard version 21.00.18 on Windows 11 Pro version 10.0.22621 Build 22621.
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In the latest version of PA, on W11 (latest build/SP) when you try to use the first level context menu - NOTHING HAPPENS (particularly when you do this from Downloads or Documents folders) - however I noticed that it DOES WORK when you use the context menu from the Desktop. Going to the second level context menu does work however.
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PA 2023 22.00.08
Long time no seeing. So I start up the new year with a first problem : the virtual driver cannot be installed. Reason : it is missing in the Fast Ring PatchBeam Update Service…
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It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
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Hi there, been a user since 13 years now and in past whenever I had a problem or question I could email, however since 3 weeks it seems like everybody is dead?
Anyway, as kind of a last resort, I post this email a 4th time but in this forum instead now, in the hope for help:
"This is the 3rd time I am emailing you guys as I am missing a working code for the preview of Power Archiver 2023Can you please help me? I am a 13 years lasting customer of yours, and I am shocked thatr for whatever reason my support tickets are ignored now, why?
thanks in advance!
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Re: Explorer.exe Crash on right click
This appears to be happening again with the Power Archiver 2022 shell extensions.
When I have Use Explorer Shell Extensions enabled in Power Archiver Configuration and right-click on c:\Users\username\Start Menu, (hidden Junction file), File Explorer crashes.
I have version 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit installed in Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1826).
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When the function for testing archives is invoked via the shell context menu (PowerArchiver > Test) then all the files in the archive get extracted to the current folder.
The test dialog reports as many errors as there are files in the archive but it fails to give any hint as to which files are supposed to be erroneous or what the nature of the problem might be. Comparing the extracted files to the originals shows no differences at all.
The .7z in question was produced with maximised compression settings in 7zip (taking forever but resulting in smaller archives than .7z produced by PowerArchiver with maximised settings). Therefore I wanted to see whether PowerArchiver can at least test .7z that it produced itself. Hence I had PowerArchiver convert a .pa with the same contents to .7z. There weren’t any errors reported but the resulting .7z contained fewer than half of the files contained in the .pa (137 of 366), so I scratched that test.
Performance is abysmal when testing via the context menu (e.g. almost 2 minutes for testing a .7z that 7zip tests in 4 seconds), but that is most likely due to the fact that the extracted files are written to disk. Testing the same .7z in the PowerArchiver GUI takes only 8 seconds but causes the mysterious appearance of a UAC dialog, as reported elsewhere.
The testing function is vital because PowerArchiver has a history of producing archives that it cannot unpack without errors or that do not conform to the respective file format standards (e.g. ZIP) so that other programs report them as erroneous.
The point of creating archives is that the files in them will most likely have to be extracted at some point. If the extraction cannot be guaranteed to produce correct results then the whole program is absolutely pointless. Actually, worse than pointless - it causes data loss and hence damage.
Fast Ring: PowerArchiver 2018 18.00.37
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New version: PowerArchiver 2018 18.00.37 - Release Candidate 1.
Download: https://powerarchiver.cachefly.net/2018/powarc180037.exeRelease Notes - PowerArchiver - Version 17.00.37
** Improvement
* [PA-1247] - File Wiping for Move option
* [PA-1486] - Blue Tools Icons on dark skins
* [PA-1496] - modern/ribbon: add icons for file, send menus under file
* [PA-1521] - improve tools icons at 125dpi and black skin
* [PA-1540] - add Use Deflate&64 compression checkbox in main add screen for ZIP
* [PA-1549] - change tab name after renaming archive
* [PA-1550] - add burn audio cd help page** New Feature
* [PA-142] - New navbar instead of dropdown (ftp, etc)
* [PA-1567] - modern/ribbon ui: maximized window state not saved on restart
* [PA-1571] - Ability to add files to Zip container formats** Bug
* [PA-408] - no shortcut on FTP text in toolbar
* [PA-424] - Uploading Files and folders together to FTP, stalls PA
* [PA-955] - ftp left panel: sort by date, folders and files sorted together
* [PA-1124] - Compress w Options disappears when less than 2 shell options selected
* [PA-1249] - reset to default, go to ftp and then explorer tab, ftp window stays
* [PA-1402] - FTP Queue section does not show properly after Set to Defaults
* [PA-1408] - cannot download via D&D in FTP
* [PA-1508] - multiple checkboxes with checked state in ftp protocol dropdown
* [PA-1522] - Optimized Zipx archives with encryption not finishing compression
* [PA-1523] - aligment of controls in add window
* [PA-1524] - FTP: FTP stays checked when logging into SFTP site
* [PA-1525] - move Select Font button slightly to the right
* [PA-1526] - specific tgz file cant be listed inside PA
* [PA-1527] - tabing in burner mode does not move properly
* [PA-1528] - file explorer in archive and explorer tab: focus on file list by default (when browsing hdd)
* [PA-1531] - PA 2018 program group says 2017 in windows 7
* [PA-1535] - Update text in converter
* [PA-1536] - Compress & Email shell option not working for archive filenames w/ unicode characters
* [PA-1539] - Font button cutoff in configuration
* [PA-1541] - PowerArchiver does not install for all users
* [PA-1545] - FTP: PA Not responding after a few transfers
* [PA-1546] - FTP: PA freezes when overwriting files downloaded from FTP
* [PA-1547] - FTP: Overwrite dialog appears for each file when Overwrite all is selected
* [PA-1548] - FTP: Cannot D&D files to download
* [PA-1551] - when preview window off, PA default startup folder file list empty
* [PA-1553] - error when closing PA after cloud config used
* [PA-1555] - archive mode, explorer view, if we add 2 new tabs, we have to close all 3 in order to see explorer hdd again
* [PA-1565] - Exception Einvalidpointer erro appears whenever accesing cloud config
* [PA-1572] - modern: preview icon under view turns off preview, instead of on
* [PA-1574] - issue with encrypted file with aes and ultra/extreme with specific settings
* [PA-1575] - burn image icon with bad transparency in toolbar
* [PA-1583] - Customize Toolbar does not show a burn icon correctly in dark skinWhats New
- Overhauled Modern/Ribbon with new icons, new file menu and fixed several issues. Full interface now has same office colorful type icons that work much better across various possible DPI ranges. For best checking out, first use Toolbar Skins> Office and then change to Modern (will be fixed in the future).
- Much improved PDF handling with keyboard and mouse, as well as when changing the size of preview window. It has become a very usable and fast PDF preview tool on its own right.
- Reworked FTP internals, much better handling when downloading many files via queue. Updated security (openssl) components.
- Added wiping of files when moving them, according to your settings in Config.
- Added ability to disable Deflate64 compression in Ultra and Extreme modes (ZIP compression), for compatibility with older Windows software as well as Windows XP.
- Updated translations for several languages.
- Smaller installer changes.
- Various smaller graphic and other issues as well as other reported issues.
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Got this message when I tried to install this build. Very odd as the last build was installed properly.
Restarted my computer and then I was able to install it.Puzzled!
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@luxor i think you didnt restart it last time, so in registry it found entries for shell extensions to updating during next restart.
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@spwolf said in Fast Ring: PowerArchiver 2018 18.00.37:
i think you didnt restart it last time
Possible, but my computer has been closed down and restarted a few times since. That should cover that shouldn’t it?
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@luxor said in Fast Ring: PowerArchiver 2018 18.00.37:
@spwolf said in Fast Ring: PowerArchiver 2018 18.00.37:
i think you didnt restart it last time
Possible, but my computer has been closed down and restarted a few times since. That should cover that shouldn’t it?
apparently it found something that was left to do from old install? In any case, lets see if it happens again, but it is a normal installer feature, not something we do on our own end. Thanks!
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A one-off hopefully.