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    • PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files

      Brian Gregory

      PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
      I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
      Discovered:
      a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
      b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files.

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    • File Explorer Shell Extension crash on Junction

      W

      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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    • Functions in Windows 11 Context Menu don't work in some directories

      P

      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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    • Missing virtual driver in Patchbeam

      pirrbe

      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…
      Virtual driver PA 2023-01-28 152607.png
      It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
      Can I have a link or can it be fixed. Thank you. CU later

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    • PA 21.00.18 testing via context menu causes extraction of files

      D

      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.

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    • Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts

      Brian Gregory

      In PowerArchiver 2023 22.00.06 configuration, the option labelled “Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts” seems to be redundant.

      I am only allowed to change this option when PA Starter is disabled, and then it seems to be ignored.

      When I enable PA Starter this option is forced to the enabled state.

      I think it’d be good to remove “Start PowerArchiver 2023 Starter when my computer starts” completely. I’ve always found it confusing having both options.

      Added later: However i don’t particularly want to use queue but I do like having the PAStarter icon in my tray area.

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    • Testing .pa archives

      PA_Fan

      W10 Pro 22H2 - 64 -bit

      PA 22.00.06 (PA 2023)

      It has been the case with previous versions of PowerArchiver, but I had hoped that the latest might behave differently. Not so, I’m afraid.

      I have, for various obscure reasons, created a few .pa archives, mainly in the hope that they will save me some more space. From time to time, I use the “Test” option to check that important archives are OK and uncorrupted.

      With every .pa archive I’ve tested, the process runs through OK but then reports that there are errors. This is always the number of files in the archive e.g. if 11 files, then 11 errors reported.

      In the .pa, I can:-

      preview the files (usually PDF) extract some or all files and look at or use them convert the .pa to a .zip or .zipx archive, which then works fine and tests without errors

      Is it the case that the Test routine isn’t designed for .pa archives, or is there another reason? Although the .pa seems to function properly, despite the test reporting errors, I would like to be sure that every .pa is OK and not “broken”.

      Some of the .pas are quite old and produced with earlier PA versions (they are truly “archives”). If I extract all the files in the old .pa, create a new, fresh .pa and add back the files to that, then test the new, no errors (at least in the .pa I’ve tried this on) are reported. This would suggest a mismatch between old .pas and newer versions of PA itself.

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    • Small UI / Theme bug in 2023

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      See the, supposedly, blank space where the green box is? It’s like that in Modern Light theme too. I can toggle it, but it’s missing text or shouldn’t be there I guess?

      Thanks :)

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    • PowerArchiver and PACL for macOS

      spwolf

      Dear @Alpha-Testers and all of our users,

      time has come for testing of PowerArchiver and PACL for macOS.
      Please let us know here if you have Mac and can test latest builds.

      Features implemented:
      PowerArchiver 2020 - tabbing, opening, extracting, adding, testing, favorite folders, support for multiple languages, opening via Finder, explorer mode, installer.
      PACL 10 - support for most formats and features in Windows version.

      Upcoming: Tools such as archive converter, batch zip, multi-extract.

      To start testing, please sign up here in this thread, and we will send you latest build.

      thank you!

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    SOLVED Not prompting for Password

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      bigdog last edited by

      I created an encrypted 7z archive out of a few old Word docs and had it move them into the archive and then delete the originals when done. That part worked OK but I’m having a problem that it is NOT asking for the password when I open the archive. There is nothing saved for it in Password Manager. I even copied that 7z archive to a NAS drive and opened it with a different PA install on another computer and it also didn’t ask for a password…

      Obviously that is a problem. Any idea why this is happening?

      Thanks

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        spwolf conexware last edited by

        @bigdog encrypt filenames should work fine in 18.01.03 now… please check it out, thanks!

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          spwolf conexware @bigdog last edited by

          @bigdog is the archive actually encrypted? Can you extract the files without password? Thanks!

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            bigdog last edited by

            I tried it again and it does seem to prompt before actually extracting the files which is some relief. However it does show the filenames in the archive without any password entered which it should not be doing if they filenames are encrypted.

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              spwolf conexware @bigdog last edited by

              @bigdog said in Not prompting for Password:

              I tried it again and it does seem to prompt before actually extracting the files which is some relief. However it does show the filenames in the archive without any password entered which it should not be doing if they filenames are encrypted.

              Filename encryption is optional… so try it again and make sure it is checked in Add window?

              Also, .pa format is a bit more secure than 7z, you can also try that too - both better security and compression are the benefits.

              thanks!

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                bigdog last edited by

                Yep it was checked (tried it twice) and still didn’t encrypt the filenames when I moved them into the 7z archive. I know pa is supposed to be more secure but for these particular files needed to use a format that was more universal so went with 7z.

                Anyway if you could take a look at why it is not encrypting the file names when moving files (and deleting originals if that makes a difference) into a 7z archive, I’d appreciate it.

                Thanks

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                  spwolf conexware @bigdog last edited by

                  @bigdog said in Not prompting for Password:

                  Yep it was checked (tried it twice) and still didn’t encrypt the filenames when I moved them into the 7z archive. I know pa is supposed to be more secure but for these particular files needed to use a format that was more universal so went with 7z.

                  Anyway if you could take a look at why it is not encrypting the file names when moving files (and deleting originals if that makes a difference) into a 7z archive, I’d appreciate it.

                  Thanks

                  where are you doing it from? When I first replied, I checked before via compress + options in shell extensions and it has worked correctly. There are many different ways you can do it in PA, so just making sure I tried the same as you did.

                  thank you!

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                    bigdog last edited by

                    I select the files and then right click PowerArchiver->Encrypt and then it opens PA where I can select options 0_1535658730921_PA options.jpg

                    It then moves them to the 7z archive and deletes the originals (like it should). I go to open that newly created 7z archive and it opens, displaying the filenames without prompting for a password. As you can see in the previous screenshot, encrypt filenames is checked but here is what it shows when I open it. 0_1535658885028_pa files list.jpg

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                      spwolf conexware last edited by

                      thanks, got it now… you can use shell extensions in between the fix, they properly hide the filename (compress + options instead of encrypt, and just select options there).

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                        bigdog last edited by

                        Any idea when there might be a fixed version for it?

                        Thanks

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                          spwolf conexware @bigdog last edited by

                          @bigdog said in Not prompting for Password:

                          Any idea when there might be a fixed version for it?

                          Thanks

                          Not yet, but as i said earlier, instead of find encrypt in shell, do compress with options (with same encrypt options) and it will work just fine.

                          Thanks!

                          @bigdog said in Not prompting for Password:

                          Any idea when there might be a fixed version for it?

                          Thanks

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                            spwolf conexware last edited by

                            @bigdog encrypt filenames should work fine in 18.01.03 now… please check it out, thanks!

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