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).
The Windows 11 context menu for PowerArchiver on normal files (to be compressed, etc.) is now showing multiple tiers with two identical menus. See attached captures of the issue:
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Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
OS build 26100.2605
Hello!
I’ve just created SFX-Archives both from ZIP and 7z-Archives and none has an Icon as it seems.
I use the new version 22.00.11.
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Basically I used powerarchiver context menus to zip up a folder then i used windows 11 own built in zip extractor via the context menu to extract all and this is where it throw up a fault. , I’m using windows 11 .
The file that was a problem in the zip that windows 11 could not extract was iva “babe” cotton.jpg
I know it has non standard quotes in it.
However I had winrar on the computer and tried the exact same method with their context menu compress to zip and then I extracted the file with windows own extract all context menu and it had no problems. This indicates that powerarchiver is doing something different with iva “babe” cotton.jpg compressing to zip.
Then I changed iva “babe” cotton.jpg to iva babe cotton.jpg and compressed it with powerarchiver and then tried it with windows 11 extract all and had no problems. It looks like powerarchiver is doing something to that one file that has quotes in it.
Please note that powerarchiver extracted both zip files with no problems, only windows built in zip extraction had the fault. Reason I’m letting people know in case they send zip files with special characters in files names to people who do not have powerarchiver.
When will a fix be implemented?
On installing the program I am getting the error message:
"Unable to execute file c:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\pashutil.exe
CreateProcess failed: code 2
The system cannot find the file specified"
This can’t be right!
I am using the latest official build of Windows 11
Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen.
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Buttons not aligned on configuration window.
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New version:
PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10:
Download:
https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220010.exe
New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.
Thanks everyone for your assistance!
New version:
PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11:
Download:
https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220011.exe
New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.
Thanks everyone for your assistance!
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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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.
Error: incorrect password
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I created a complete archive of my I:*.* drive, and saved it to network storage. Now, I’m trying to extract the archive back to re-create my I: drive after a reformat. Whenever I try to extract or test the archive, I’m never getting prompted for the password that I entered during creation. As soon as I try to extract or test, I get an error popup: “Error: The password is incorrect.” I know what the correct password should be, but I can’t find a way to get the password into the extraction process.
I can’t get this archive to extract, and I need to get my drive back ASAP. Can someone please help me?
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How big is the archive file?
What format is the archive and did you use standard password or PAE encryption (simply the archive filename might help here)?
e.g. if Zip -> did you neable >4GB option?
Is the archive a single file or is it split?
Do you have enough “working space” -> disk free space = at least 2*archive filesize?Which version of PA to create the archive?
Which version of PA to now extract?P.S. which version of windows and which format is the drive (FAT/NTFS etc) may also be helpful to know.
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How big is the archive file?
What format is the archive and did you use standard password or PAE encryption (simply the archive filename might help here)?
e.g. if Zip -> did you neable >4GB option?
Is the archive a single file or is it split?
Do you have enough “working space” -> disk free space = at least 2*archive filesize?Which version of PA to create the archive?
Which version of PA to now extract?P.S. which version of windows and which format is the drive (FAT/NTFS etc) may also be helpful to know.
1. The archive filesize is 41.3GB and I used standard password encryption (it’s a .zip file).
2. The archive is a single file. I can seem to browse the file just fine in Power Archiver.
3. 9.25.2 is the version I used for both.
4. Windows XP SP2 and it is a 200GB NTFS drive.I did not select any specific options when creating the archive, other than password protect.
I’ve had a little more time to play with this, and offer the following additional information:
I can browse down to the file level in the archive. When I get to open a file, PowerArchiver asks for my password. I enter it, and it asks me if I want to save it in Password Manager. I choose yes, and the file opens just great.Now, if I go into password manager tab in configuration, the archive is listed on the “Passwords NOT Saved” tab…?? If I try and extract at a folder level I get the same error message of incorrect password.
So, I can browse down to the file, and open the file with a password, but I can’t extract the entire archive.
Regards,
Joe -
The archive filesize is 41.3GB and I used standard password encryption (it’s a .zip file)….
I did not select any specific options when creating the archive, other than password protect.Oh dear… if you did NOT enable the option “Make large Zip file >4GB” then the zip file is probably corrupt/unusable. This would also cause the “incorrect password” message as you can probably only access the first 4GB of the archive.
You should make a copy of the zip file (so you have a failsafe backup), then try “repair archive” but I doubt you’ll recover everything - this may only “fix” it to the 4GB limit.
Maybe someone else can suggest a way to correct/salvage the 41GB zip archive (may involve hex editing - sorry but I don’t know).
This option for large Zip should/will be default in “next version” but that doesn’t help you now - See also http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=888
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Do you have enough “working space” -> disk free space = at least 2*archive filesize?
By the way, this was referring to your working/“temp” drive (C: ? ) and not the target drive I:
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Oh dear… if you did NOT enable the option “Make large Zip file >4GB” then the zip file is probably corrupt/unusable. This would also cause the “incorrect password” message as you can probably only access the first 4GB of the archive.
You should make a copy of the zip file (so you have a failsafe backup), then try “repair archive” but I doubt you’ll recover everything - this may only “fix” it to the 4GB limit.
Maybe someone else can suggest a way to correct/salvage the 41GB zip archive (may involve hex editing - sorry but I don’t know).
This option for large Zip should/will be default in “next version” but that doesn’t help you now - See also http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=888
:(In fact, the >4GB limit was enabled. I fortunately enabled that switch during the creation of the batch.
OK, so I have definitely identified a bug, here.
I was finally able to copy the zip file to the I: drive. Then I opened up PowerArchiver, and used the right mouse button option to Extract To… and set it to I:. It asked for the password, as I would expect, and I entered it. In about 2.5 hours, I had my zip archive restored.
So, the GUI button for Extract does not work properly with a password-encrypted archive.
Regards,
Joe -
In about 2.5 hours, I had my zip archive restored.
That’s a relief :D
the GUI button for Extract does not work properly with a password-encrypted archive.
OK may have found something, a similar problem (but with different format archive) was reported here
http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=700So seems that more testing is required :(
