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: