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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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Is the version Preview 2023 also considered to be tested by the testteam ? In the past we got messages in the forum for testing out version x.x, to be downloaded by fastring, or I missed the one for 2023. (I discovered 2023 on the official web…)
CU, Pirrbe.
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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!
All the best!
Joerg" -
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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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!
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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.
Bug not fixed in new version
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Re: Using the Queue Feature affects Compression Ratio negatively
I’m sorry if the dev team is affected by pandemic, and if anyways that is affecting their quality to provide quality software.
But honestly, it’s been an year I have been complaining about the queue feature, it is taking them ages to fix.
referencing the above bug, I have been waiting patiently, but the bug isn’t fixed at all.
The old queuing bug where PA gets stuck randomly, isn’t fixed either.
The Bug where you keep 10-15 files in queue at once, will cause the software to miss few in queue.
and sometimes it would compress into a corrupt archive, so you have to manually open each archive and make sure everything is there as expected.
There’s way too many bugs, and I see none getting fixed.
I’m disappointed with this software.
I should have sticked to 7zip or given a shot to other archivers than this, at least they don’t provide update once in 4 months and fix nothing.
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Hi,
thank you for the report. We (@Mili ) will investigate queue and PA format a bit better, I saw it mentioned in our issue reporting system. In this case, it seems all the options might not be passed to the queue as supposed to when you create file directly. Are the files the same if you do not change the dictionary size?
When it comes to 7z and other software, what kind of compression are you getting on the same file? Is there a difference?
thank you!
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Honestly,
There’s not even a single guide to using this software, it’s just that if you know what you are doing you are at your own’s mercy.
I tried changing lots of options, including changing dictionary size to 128 MB.
keep PNG filter to reflate*7, and no filter for PNG files.
keep x64+deltab for exe and no filterEverything has same result, Using queue will make the files large
There’s another issue.
I tried to avert the queue feature.(Instead start all compression at once)
Make some 10 folders, with 10-15 files in each, small PNG, JPG, or anything u want. make total size somewhere 50 MB of each folder.
then keep all the folders in compression individually, and run all of them at once.
out of 10, the very first process will complete normally, rest all will have following resuults:
- either complete with no errors but the .pa archive will be corrupt with some 20-40% of total file’s size or empty.
- will give disk full error after some 10-15 secs
- if the first one completed while you tried to put up another one for archiving, it will go on as it should, but the rest process will have corrupt results.
Also, when I try to change directory from the selection tab, without using browse feature, to create folders.
The PA process runs, asks for admin rights, I give it, it creates folder if it does not exist, then it will give disk full error, and delete the empty folder, no compression is done.
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Coming back after exact 30 days, there’s no update for the software.
Now the windows 11 is coming, so there will be huge delay due to migrating and making the code work with new OS.
I don’t expect the very features that I need to work to be fixed in this year’s patches.
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@godlydevils said in Bug not fixed in new version:
Honestly,
There’s not even a single guide to using this software, it’s just that if you know what you are doing you are at your own’s mercy.
I tried changing lots of options, including changing dictionary size to 128 MB.
keep PNG filter to reflate*7, and no filter for PNG files.
keep x64+deltab for exe and no filterEverything has same result, Using queue will make the files large
There’s another issue.
I tried to avert the queue feature.(Instead start all compression at once)
Make some 10 folders, with 10-15 files in each, small PNG, JPG, or anything u want. make total size somewhere 50 MB of each folder.
then keep all the folders in compression individually, and run all of them at once.
out of 10, the very first process will complete normally, rest all will have following resuults:
- either complete with no errors but the .pa archive will be corrupt with some 20-40% of total file’s size or empty.
- will give disk full error after some 10-15 secs
- if the first one completed while you tried to put up another one for archiving, it will go on as it should, but the rest process will have corrupt results.
Also, when I try to change directory from the selection tab, without using browse feature, to create folders.
The PA process runs, asks for admin rights, I give it, it creates folder if it does not exist, then it will give disk full error, and delete the empty folder, no compression is done.
Please send us that archive compressed with .pa/normal and let us know what settings you used. Thanks.
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@godlydevils said in Bug not fixed in new version:
Coming back after exact 30 days, there’s no update for the software.
Now the windows 11 is coming, so there will be huge delay due to migrating and making the code work with new OS.
I don’t expect the very features that I need to work to be fixed in this year’s patches.
There will be no changes needed on our side for Windows 11.
On PA side, we are releasing minor version update in next 10 days and we have started working on PA 2022. Thanks!
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I cannot make a lengthy video for variety of errors that I encounter.
However, this is persistent error, let’s start with this.
https://youtu.be/Ar7qDIKvAn4
and the file that was archived.
https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1NnQ2DVttFarYhQEszd9R__oD63nxr6ZT
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I will be honest with you.
You release minor versions because you fixed bugs, optimized performance/code.
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You release major version because you added new features, made overhaul to the software, and it’s competitively better than old major release.However, all your releases had same bugs, same outcome, I hardly notice any difference between resulting compressed archives, there are no new algorithms, there’s no optimization or performance improvements, and no new features.
Many devs have made it a hobby to release new major versions to sell new software due to major upgrade.
also, don’t wish to go offtopic, but ConeXware’s Encryption suite has never been updated, it has same visual and operational bugs, yet you guys are selling it openly, without disclosing the fact that software is no longer supported.
I feel the same with this software.
P.S. commenting after 12 days, there’s no minor version update yet. as per your 10 days statement.
