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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!
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
Favorites and Options fails
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With PA in classic view, I click on the Favorites button
The window opens, showing a list containing 53 entriesFirst strange thing - the Open button is greyed out (disabled)
Second - if I click on Options button, PA fails with “Error reading DirList.Header.Columns.Items: Out of memory.”
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First strange thing - the Open button is greyed out (disabled)
CONFIRMED
Second - if I click on Options button, PA fails with “Error reading DirList.Header.Columns.Items: Out of memory.”
CONFIRMED
PA has a huge memory leak. As soon as you click on Options, PA rapidly continues to consume memory out of control, as observed via Task Manager. Sustained disk activity also occurs. -
What version??? I have installed RC1 via clean install and notice no impact on my systems resources by clicking on the options menu. If anything RC1 is quicker and smoother!
On opening PA my CPU Usage goes from 4% to 78% for a mili second.
With PA Open my CPU Usage is still 4% and on selecting the PA options jumps to 8% briefly.
Clicking on the Configuiration button puts the cpu usage up from 4% to 18% “again briefly!”
Bar my antivirus program and email client running no other app was using my CPU.
I have Windows XP Pro SP2, AMD Athlon 64bit 3500+ and 3 gig of RAM on my work system.
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Thanks!
We fixed both issues for Final version.
