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.
Unsolved PA 19.00.43...47 stops me moving .tar.xz, .tar.gz, .7z and .iso files.
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PA 19.00.43 stops me moving .tar.xz files.
They have to stay in my download directory (or wherever they are) until I uninstall PA!
(I’m running Windows 7 x64)
Later: Found out that if I wait some minutes (around 5 mins I think) after opening source folder PA eventually releases the file and it can be moved.
Later still: Seems to have stopped doing it now?!
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Still happening in .44
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Getting same problem with .7z files too.
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Tested by creating a tar.xz archive in the Downloads directory and was able to successfully move it to another folder.
Should we test another way so that we may reproduce this? Please let us know.
Also please send over your settings to support, we’ll import those as well as there maybe a setting that causes it.Thanks for letting us know.
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@Mili Maybe it’s Windows 7 and/or 64 bit specific. I think refreshing the explorer window that shows the file makes it do it (again?). It may be Windows 7 and/or 64 bit specific.
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@Mili Are you still unable to reproduce this?
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Same problem wirh .iso files too.
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Any news about fixing this? It can be really annoying.
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Hey, sorry for the delay.
No luck reproducing so far, gonna give it another go and report back -
Funny… Isn’t the virus scanner locking the file? I tried everything to reproduce, but no luck. Any change you can use a locking tool to see what process is locking the file?
Windows 11 Pro ENU x64
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@guido said in PA 19.00.43...47 stops me moving .tar.xz, .tar.gz, .7z and .iso files.:
Funny… Isn’t the virus scanner locking the file? I tried everything to reproduce, but no luck. Any change you can use a locking tool to see what process is locking the file?
It says they’re locked by SearchProtocolHost.exe.
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@Brian-Gregory SearchProtocolHost.exe is part of windows and generates indexes for faster search. As a test, you could disable the index for the downloads folder. Turn of the checkmark below and try again.
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I’m using Windows 7.
Well I changed some settings to tell it not to try and index the conetnts of the file types I was having a problem with and re-make the index and so far so good.
I was waiting for the complete index to be rebuilt but it’s taking days!
But it looks like that’s cured the problem.
Thank you.
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Well that’s just typical.
As soon as I say it seems to be fixed it does it again.But this this time ProcessExplorer says no process has locked the file!
But it won’t move in to the recycle bin!
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I hate Windoze SO MUCH at the moment.
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@Brian-Gregory said in PA 19.00.43...47 stops me moving .tar.xz, .tar.gz, .7z and .iso files.:
Well that’s just typical.
As soon as I say it seems to be fixed it does it again.But this this time ProcessExplorer says no process has locked the file!
But it won’t move in to the recycle bin!
WTF?What if, at that point, you restart the computer? Is it still locked after trying to delete it immediately after restarting?
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@Mili said in PA 19.00.43...47 stops me moving .tar.xz, .tar.gz, .7z and .iso files.:
@Brian-Gregory said in PA 19.00.43...47 stops me moving .tar.xz, .tar.gz, .7z and .iso files.:
Well that’s just typical.
As soon as I say it seems to be fixed it does it again.But this this time ProcessExplorer says no process has locked the file!
But it won’t move in to the recycle bin!
WTF?What if, at that point, you restart the computer? Is it still locked after trying to delete it immediately after restarting?
Yes restarting fixes it. Also waiting a few minutes fixes it. Plus it doesn’t do it anywhere near as often at the moment but I don’t know if that’s because of the settings I changed or because it still rebuilding the indexes. The process that builds the indexes seems to be fixed to use about 25% of one thread and produces only the tiniest barely visable flickers in the hard drive activety light. :(
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I’m trying running with the Indexing Service disabled on both my PCs now because it’s useless and just sticks on certain files which there is no easy way to identify.
I don’t think I’m going to miss it because I already tend to use WHERE /r from the command line to find files since it usually gets results much quicker anyway.
