Another BH Mystery

Charles Botz

Using the Archive Converter:

Converting to BH with Maximum Compression creates archives LARGER than using BH with Normal Compression. :eek:

Plus:
Normal Compression produces NO CRC errors.
Maximum Compression produces MANY CRC errors. :(

But none of these things happen when creating a NEW BH Archive from the main interface.

Spwolf? Ivan? :(

ivan

Thanks!

It should be fixed in BETA 4.

TBGBe

The conversion filesize problem is not fixed in 9.5 beta 4

Original Folder containing 22 text files [1.22 MB (1,290,114 bytes)]

(all using explorer shell)
Compress Folder to BH (normal) -> 376 KB (385,716 bytes)
Compress Folder to BH (maximum) -> 374 KB (383,220 bytes)

Compress Folder to TAR.Bz2 -> 310 KB (317,779 bytes)

Convert Bz2 to BH (normal) -> 376 KB (385,716 bytes)
Convert Bz2 to BH (maximum) -> 1.25 MB (1,310,720 bytes)

Charles Botz

Terry, it is not fixed for me either!

Also, the more you convert from another format to BH and back, and then back again to BH, the bigger the archive gets. :eek:

And try this one , Terry:
Try BH with the compression setting at NONE. I get the same compression results as in the NORMAL setting.

TBGBe

@TBGBe:

The conversion filesize problem is not fixed in 9.5 beta 4

Original Folder containing 22 text files [1.22 MB (1,290,114 bytes)]

(all using explorer shell)
Compress Folder to BH (normal) -> 376 KB (385,716 bytes)
Compress Folder to BH (maximum) -> 374 KB (383,220 bytes)

Compress Folder to TAR.Bz2 -> 310 KB (317,779 bytes)

Convert Bz2 to BH (normal) -> 376 KB (385,716 bytes)
Convert Bz2 to BH (maximum) -> 1.25 MB (1,310,720 bytes)

This only happens with TAR.Bz2

it does NOT happen converting from TAR.Gz, Zip, Cab or 7z.

@Charles:

Try BH with the compression setting at NONE. I get the same compression results as in the NORMAL setting.

Confirmed.

spwolf

“None” setting does not exist in BH, we will remove it in next release. Thanks for checking up with other problem.

ivan

None setting will work fine from Beta 5.

TBGBe

Tried beta 5 with a folder containing 11 text files [70kB (71692 bytes)]

(all using explorer shell)
Compress Folder to BH (none) -> 71.0 KB (72786 bytes)
Compress Folder to BH (normal) -> 9.64 KB (9881 bytes)
Compress Folder to BH (maximum) -> 9.60 KB (9840 bytes)

Compress Folder to TAR.Bz2 -> 4.82 KB (4942 bytes)

Convert Bz2 to BH (none) -> 71.0 KB (72786 bytes) => OK
Convert Bz2 to BH (normal) -> 9.64 KB (9881 bytes) => OK

Convert Bz2 to BH (maximum) -> 80.0 KB (81920 bytes) => NOT OK :(

So, “none” setting is OK
But still problem with conversion to BH “maximum”.

TBGBe

@TBGBe:

Tried beta 5 with a folder containing 11 text files [70kB (71692 bytes)]

(all using explorer shell)
Compress Folder to BH (none) -> 71.0 KB (72786 bytes)
Compress Folder to BH (normal) -> 9.64 KB (9881 bytes)
Compress Folder to BH (maximum) -> 9.60 KB (9840 bytes)

Compress Folder to TAR.Bz2 -> 4.82 KB (4942 bytes)

Convert Bz2 to BH (none) -> 71.0 KB (72786 bytes) => OK
Convert Bz2 to BH (normal) -> 9.64 KB (9881 bytes) => OK

Convert Bz2 to BH (maximum) -> 80.0 KB (81920 bytes) => NOT OK :(

Problem with conversion to BH “maximum”.

Same problem in beta 6.

Charles Botz

@TBGBe:

Same problem in beta 6.

I can confirm this! Something is wrong with the converting process here. (It may have more to do with Bzip.Tar than .BH, but then, I am partial to .BH.) Nothing has been corrected from the previous betas. Beta 6 still has problems.

Also, some mp3 files archived with 7 Zip and then encoded to UU or XX still will not open in Beta 6. Please Help!

ivan

Thanks!

The issue should be fixed in Final Beta.

TBGBe

http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1219 :rolleyes: