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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!
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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
Shell extension menu 'bugs'
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If the filename begins with a ‘.’ it looks like this. It might not be a bug, but it’d be nice to see something like .text.zip if there’s no text before the ‘.’ in a filename. Thanks for a great program none the less :)
Also it’d be nice to have a right-click option to compress ISO/NRG/BIN files instead of just extract… this might in fact be a bug, or at least a possible oversight. Maybe have this option depend upon if power archiver is associated with such files or not?
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Sorry, I missed this post.
@seth:If the filename begins with a ‘.’ it looks like this. It might not be a bug, but it’d be nice to see something like .text.zip if there’s no text before the ‘.’ in a filename.
Well, Windows does not allow creating a file called .xxx
Just gives error, “there must be a filename”. Of course, you could select “Compress with options” and then give the zip another name as required.Also it’d be nice to have a right-click option to compress ISO/NRG/BIN files instead of just extract… this might in fact be a bug, or at least a possible oversight. Maybe have this option depend upon if power archiver is associated with such files or not?
PA treats ‘iso’ files as archives, so you have to enable the shell option “Compress to… (for archives)”
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Well, Windows does not allow creating a file called .xxx
The shell might not like to create files that start with a period, but other programs (including the command line or notepad) have no probelm with them.
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The shell might not like to create files that start with a period, but other programs (including the command line or notepad) have no probelm with them.
So they do. And, if you also give them an extension ‘.test.txt’ then PA also has no problem.
