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.
Encryption in 9.6 Beta1 is Not Working
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When Encryption is selected, PA goes through the process of compressing the files but when the encryption is done, the pae file is missing. Nothing is produced.
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Using shell option “Compress & Encrypt” ?
The pae file is created, but it is saved in the “Temp Location” folder (Configuration - Folders); not in the same folder as the file being compressed. -
this has been fixed in b2
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Using shell option “Compress & Encrypt” ?
The pae file is created, but it is saved in the “Temp Location” folder (Configuration - Folders); not in the same folder as the file being compressed.Yes, fixed in 9.6 Beta 2
