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    • PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files

      Brian Gregory

      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.

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    • Convert archive is incorrect for some WinRAR 5 archives

      W

      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.

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    • Some bugs on Advanced options

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      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

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    Wheel scrolling backwards?

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      JackH last edited by

      I’ve noticed that when I view the contents of an archive, the mouse wheel scrolling is backwards… I move the wheel down, PowerArchiver scrolls upward. I move the wheel up, and PowerArchiver scrolls downward. Is this normal?

      I’m using a Microsoft Whele Mouse Optical, with the stock drivers in Vista.

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        JackH last edited by

        Just talking to myself here I guess, but I also notice that PowerArchiver is scrolling one line at a time, not one page at a time as I have set.

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          TBGBe @JackH last edited by

          I was expexcting you to come back saying it was “fixed” after you rebooted.
          I cannot reproduce the problem so osme more details may be needed.
          What version of PA - current is 10.01.03 ?
          Clean install or upgrade from PA 9.x / 10.x?
          What view style (although I tried both Classic and Modern) ?
          I assume you are dispaying details (not list)?
          Are you using a skin (I only tried with defaults)?
          What archive format (I tried both ZIP and CAB)?

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            JackH @TBGBe last edited by

            @TBGBe:

            I was expexcting you to come back saying it was “fixed” after you rebooted.

            Yeah, I always wait until several uses before reporting a porblem such as this, to make sure it really is a problem with the program, not just a one-time oddity.

            @TBGBe:

            What version of PA - current is 10.01.03 ?
            Clean install or upgrade from PA 9.x / 10.x?
            What view style (although I tried both Classic and Modern) ?
            I assume you are dispaying details (not list)?
            Are you using a skin (I only tried with defaults)?
            What archive format (I tried both ZIP and CAB)?

            The version I’m using is 10.00.42, it was a clean install – this is the first I’ve tried PA. I’m using the classic view, display is set to details, the skin is “Default Classic” and the archive format doesn’t matter. The same thing happens when I’m not even viewing an archive – the explorer-like display you get when you just run the program without opening an archive does the same thing. The Open dialog, which I assume is a standard Windows dialog, does not show this problem.

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            • TBGBe
              TBGBe @JackH last edited by

              OK.
              As I said I can’t reproduce the problem - I don’t remember anything like this with earlier versions either (and I have used them all :-)

              You could try updating to the current version (10.01.03).
              That has improvements specific to Windows Vista - I am still on XP.

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                JackH @TBGBe last edited by

                @TBGBe:

                You could try updating to the current version (10.01.03).

                Tried that; it made no difference.

                Incidentally, I mentioned before about the Explorer-like window when you open PA. In this, the left panel scrolls correctly, while the right panel exhibits the same backwards, line-at-a-time scrolling as when viewing the contents of an archive.

                I like PowerArchiver otherwise, but this is annoying enough to make me look elsewhere. Maybe they’ll fix it, but my evaluation time runs out soon.

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                • TBGBe
                  TBGBe @JackH last edited by

                  @JackH:

                  …not one page at a time as I have set.

                  Sorry, I misread that bit. :eek:
                  You are right - if I activate [ Mouse - Wheel - one screen at a time ] in Windows XP I get the same effect.:(

                  Choosing “number of lines” e.g. 20 works correctly.
                  Could you try that as a workaround?
                  @JackH:

                  my evaluation time runs out soon.

                  Apart from a “nag” timer, the functionality is exactly the same (there is nothing disabled on evaluation expiry). Don’t buy the license until it works the way you want.

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                    JackH @TBGBe last edited by

                    @TBGBe:

                    Choosing “number of lines” e.g. 20 works correctly.
                    Could you try that as a workaround?

                    No; I’d rather be annoyed by one program than by all programs!

                    This is starting to make sense though… I’ll bet the number of lines to scroll is stored as -1 if it’s set to page-at-a-time, and PA (or a programming tool used by it) is interpreting this literally.

                    @TBGBe:

                    Apart from a “nag” timer, the functionality is exactly the same (there is nothing disabled on evaluation expiry). Don’t buy the license until it works the way you want.

                    Yeah, I’ve been using shareware long enough to learn this the hard way.

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                      spwolf conexware @JackH last edited by

                      @JackH:

                      Tried that; it made no difference.

                      Incidentally, I mentioned before about the Explorer-like window when you open PA. In this, the left panel scrolls correctly, while the right panel exhibits the same backwards, line-at-a-time scrolling as when viewing the contents of an archive.

                      I like PowerArchiver otherwise, but this is annoying enough to make me look elsewhere. Maybe they’ll fix it, but my evaluation time runs out soon.

                      we will take a look for one of the future updates… thanks.

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                        JackH @spwolf last edited by

                        Just a friendly reminder about this problem, which is not yet fixed in the 10.1 beta.:)

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                        • ivan
                          ivan conexware @JackH last edited by

                          Thanks!

                          The issue will be finally fixed in Beta 2.

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                            JackH @ivan last edited by

                            Thank you! I shall anxiously await its arrival.:)

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                              TBGBe @JackH last edited by

                              One Screen at a time fixed - for me - in PA b2 (10.10.09).

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                                JackH @TBGBe last edited by

                                So, where is it? I just downloaded , and got 10.10.08.

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                                  TBGBe @JackH last edited by

                                  From another thread
                                  http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/alpha100/powarc1010b2.exe

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                                    JackH @TBGBe last edited by

                                    Thank you - looks like I need to start reading every thread here!

                                    Scrolling does indeed work corrrectly in v10.10.09.

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                                    • TBGBe
                                      TBGBe @JackH last edited by

                                      No, you could have waited for “official release announcment”.
                                      But once you asked… :D

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