PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
Discovered:
a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files.
WinRAR 5 has a rather useful option in some cases, which is to be able to create an archive by replacing identical files with a reference to the first occurrence (hardlink) within the archive.
In case you choose to convert the file with PowerArchiver to another format, however, the resulting archive does not have all the files. It does not consider those that were present as hardlinks.
If you do a normal extraction of the RAR archive instead, even with PowerArchivier, all the files are extracted correctly.
When adding to a file archive, and selecting for example PA format, strong optimization method, extreme compression. In the Advanced Options section you change to Automatic, EXE Filter and PDF filter . You return to the main section and save the Profile. When you then reload the profile you do not have the Automatic options of EXE Filter and PDF saved there.
I noticed that instead if you change other options they are saved correctly (except for the Filter box values).
Also among the various changes to the advanced options you click the “Calculate RAM usage” button the value seems to be added to the previous one. You can see it for example just by clicking the button twice in a row, the value changes. Edit: actually after many attempts now it seems to write a stable value (it does not change with each click). Maybe a synchronization problem in the calculation?
Used PowerArchivier 2023 but there is the same behavior with the 2022
"Compress to…" problems
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Hi guys,
In the last few weeks I’ve been looking into deploying a set of standard PowerArchiver settings across my domain, but I am encourtering some problems.
In our environment we are using XP SP2 with PowerArchiver 2004 v9.20.07.
I have set the temporary directory (along with the default add location, startup location, checkout location and default extract location) to the user’s home area (H:\ drive), but when they attempt to compress a file (without the Options menu) which exists on a drive to which they do not have write permissions, the user is left with a file in H:\ with a random name and no extension. The file is 0 bytes. I imagine this is because the temporary directory is H:.
Is there any configuration I can change to force the creation of the archive on H:\ regardless of where the original file exists? A registry change, perhaps??
Alternatively, is there a way I can only give users the Compress to Zip + Options selection on the right-click context menu, and not have “Compress to abcd.zip” so they have to enter the options menu?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Rick Giagnacovo
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Is there any configuration I can change to force the creation of the archive on H:\ regardless of where the original file exists? A registry change, perhaps??
I don’t think it is possible to force the target drive/folder for compression.
@rgiagnacovo:Alternatively, is there a way I can only give users the Compress to Zip + Options selection on the right-click context menu, and not have “Compress to abcd.zip” so they have to enter the options menu?
Again, I don’t think so, apparently PA will only display “Compress with options” if at least one format is also activated.
Of course, if you disable the Shell Extensions completely then everyone has to use PA’s dialogue where these options would be available for setting/changing. But that is not a good solution.
However, there is “extra information” available regarding “registry settings for deploying PA” from premium support, see http://www.powerarchiver.com/support/
