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    BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02
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    New version: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02: Download: https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc221002.exe New build with new signature so shell extensions in Windows will function properly. Thanks everyone for your assistance!
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    End of Powerarchiver
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    Powerarchiver is dead no updates to fix bugs no new features, no communication and errors in program update system with scripting errors. Duplicate context menus windows 11 no fixes no updates I declare that this is the last version.
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    Copied the Take Command shortcut, changed Target to be wt.exe -p “Take Command” and saved it. Right-clicked to get to properties and Explorer crashed. (wt.exe is the Microsoft Terminal program, which I have installed from the Microsoft Store.) The Target path had changed to: C:\Users{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe -p “Take Command” Created a new shortcut in a Start Menu folder and set the command line to the same, and it crashed the same. Created a new shortcut and set the command line to mspaint.exe (also a Windows Store app) and Explorer crashed on right-click on the shortcut. It appears PowerArchiver shell extensions doesn’t handle Windows Store apps in shortcuts properly. Perhaps it needs better defensive coding around checking the Target of shortcuts, or just ignoring shortcuts altogether. Running PA 22.00.11 on Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.6584
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    Was Power Archiver affected by the WinRAR/.rar vulnerability discovered by ESET researchers recently? Not sure if PA is using their libraries for extraction.
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    updates
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    anything planned for the future or is this software just dead now?
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    From google search AI Overview Yes, that’s correct. UltimateZip was indeed a product of the same company that developed PowerArchiver, and it was essentially a rebranded version of PowerArchiver. It was discontinued and replaced by PowerArchiver.
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    News/Update on PowerArchiver/Connexion in 2024
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    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).
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    BETA PowerArchive 22.00.11 - Windows 11 Context Menu duplicated/additional tier
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    Zip extraction from windows 11 by windows
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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?
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    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
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    BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10
    spwolfS
    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!
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    BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11
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    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!
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    THE SSL CERTIFICATE FOR *.POWERARCHIVER.COM HAS EXPIRED.
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    @spwolf @Mili THE SSL CERTIFICATE FOR *.POWERARCHIVER.COM HAS EXPIRED.
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    PA2023 22.00.09 trying to delete a directory from a tar file.
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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.
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    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!
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    • spwolfS Offline
      spwolf conexware
      last edited by

      well PBS files dont seem to be properly registered with windows explorer. There are several possible reasons for this.

      Did you try cmd line i suggested before? Did that work?

      “C:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\PABACKUP.EXE” /silent “C:\Users\user\Documents\Backups\Scripts\test. pbs”

      just replace it to proper path to your files.

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        spwolf conexware
        last edited by

        (when you click on run on backup script in backup window, that is what PA does, it runs shell execute command, which is basically same thing as command line prompt).

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          steiale
          last edited by

          Using in cmd seems to work now…

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            spwolf conexware @steiale
            last edited by

            @steiale:

            Using in cmd seems to work now…

            it has to work, reason it didnt work was because of long paths and you probably did not use “”… but i figured that out before, problem was that I thought that you wrote how you tried it from explorer and it works :-)

            anyway, now schedule an task using the same thing… it HAS to work… I will not accept no for an answer ;-)

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              steiale
              last edited by

              Ok… This is going to be hard for you…

              I swear when I use exactly the same string as working on my cmd it does not work in scheduler…!!

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                steiale
                last edited by

                Another strange thing…

                When is go to browse for PA in the scheduler it says that the path to the pbs file is not valid… But I changed the pbs files already to c:\PAscripts… How short can that be…

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                • spwolfS Offline
                  spwolf conexware @steiale
                  last edited by

                  @steiale:

                  Another strange thing…

                  When is go to browse for PA in the scheduler it says that the path to the pbs file is not valid… But I changed the pbs files already to c:\PAscripts… How short can that be…

                  can you browse to it? not write it in but browse to it…

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                    steiale
                    last edited by

                    ok… Back after one week of illness…

                    Still doesn’t work. Sure I can browse to it…

                    Any new idea?

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                      steiale
                      last edited by

                      A small step further…
                      I made the file association between pbs files and PA again and now at least a double click on pbs file starts PA correctly and files are backuped.

                      But start from scheduler still doesn’t work. PA gets started and does nothing.

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                        spwolf conexware @steiale
                        last edited by

                        @steiale:

                        A small step further…
                        I made the file association between pbs files and PA again and now at least a double click on pbs file starts PA correctly and files are backuped.

                        But start from scheduler still doesn’t work. PA gets started and does nothing.

                        check your task, make sure that backup it is starting is the right backup (that it points to proper file).

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                          spwolf conexware
                          last edited by

                          it should be something like this:

                          “C:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\PABACKUP.EXE” /silent “C:\Users\user\Documents\Backups\Scripts\test. pbs”

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                            steiale
                            last edited by

                            It does… :-(

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                            • spwolfS Offline
                              spwolf conexware
                              last edited by

                              try manually that in command prompt now

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                                steiale
                                last edited by

                                That worked as we checked already…

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                                  steiale
                                  last edited by

                                  can we do this by chat or something? Would be faster. R U in skype or something?

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                                    steiale
                                    last edited by

                                    OK next step I tried.

                                    Wrote a batch. Thought if I can’t schedule the pbs maybe I can schedule a batch that starts the pbs.

                                    –-------
                                    @echo off
                                    start “Sedi Backup” /MIN “C:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\PABackup.exe” “/silent C:\PAscripts\sedi.pbs”
                                    :end

                                    Ends up in an oleaut32.dll access violation. Does that help?

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                                      spwolf conexware
                                      last edited by

                                      I did not catch those newer responses to the thread, this is what the command line is:
                                      “C:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\PABACKUP.EXE” /silent “C:\Users\user\Documents\Backups\Scripts\test. pbs”

                                      If that works, then it works in batch file if you properly enter it.

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                                        steiale
                                        last edited by

                                        Hey there… Can we get this thing working again please? I do backups manually every day now.

                                        DoubleClick on pbs file starts backup properly. Still no chance at all to get it run in scheduler. Can we do this b telephone or remote whatsoever.

                                        I want my scheduled backup to work again please…!!

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                                          spwolf conexware @spwolf
                                          last edited by

                                          @spwolf:

                                          I did not catch those newer responses to the thread, this is what the command line is:
                                          “C:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\PABACKUP.EXE” /silent “C:\Users\user\Documents\Backups\Scripts\test. pbs”

                                          If that works, then it works in batch file if you properly enter it.

                                          did you try above?

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                                            steiale
                                            last edited by

                                            I did… This does work. Starts PAbackup and starts to backup…

                                            When I use the exact same in Scheduler pa starts but doesn’t backup… :-(

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