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[PA_Fan]

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?

[davidsplash]

@PA_Fan Install trial version of ashampoo zip pro 4 and try from there as the app is also made by powerarchiver team, that gets more fixes.

[davidsplash]

@PA_Fan Another way extract the file and then recompress.

[PA_Fan]

@davidsplash

Thanks. I’ve had a look at the Ashampoo Pro 4 version, but that seems to be minus a number of things that are in the current release of Powerarchiver.

For instance, there isn’t a “Remove Encryption” offering, the archive creation section doesn’t offer several of the options in PA such as Move/Update/Refresh and some other switches, there isn’t a Test Archive feature and so on. Whilst it does the job in parts, the Pro 4 offering is distinctly reduced from the PA version, although the prices seem to be the same.

Speaking of which, we haven’t seen any updates to PA 2023 since 22.00.09, and whilst I’m a firm believer in the “ain’t broke, don’t fix it” philosophy, it would be good for those of us who have bought and used PA for many years to have some small inkling of what PA may be planning.

Going back to the original problem of decryption, I think that it may have been just a temporary glitch (possibly process overloads) on my machine, as it has worked OK, albeit on smaller archives than that which gave problems.

[PA_Fan]

@PA_Fan said in PA 2023 Toolbox - 22.00.09 - Remove archive encryption:

@davidsplash

Thanks. I’ve had a look at the Ashampoo Pro 4 version, but that seems to be minus a number of things that are in the current release of Powerarchiver.

For instance, there isn’t a “Remove Encryption” offering, the archive creation section doesn’t offer several of the options in PA such as Move/Update/Refresh and some other switches, there isn’t a Test Archive feature and so on. Whilst it does the job in parts, the Pro 4 offering is distinctly reduced from the PA version, although the prices seem to be the same.

Speaking of which, we haven’t seen any updates to PA 2023 since 22.00.09, and whilst I’m a firm believer in the “ain’t broke, don’t fix it” philosophy, it would be good for those of us who have bought and used PA for many years to have some small inkling of what PA may be planning.

Going back to the original problem of decryption, I think that it may have been just a temporary glitch (possibly process overloads) on my machine, as it has worked OK, albeit on smaller archives than that which gave problems.
Another interesting thing is that the Help for the Ashampoo version does list the same things as the Help for PA e.g. gridlines, comments etc. etc.