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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

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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.

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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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    RAR problem

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      Imaginelane last edited by

      PA 2007 will not recognize RAR archives above *.R01. Is this a configuration thing? What needs to happen here?:confused:

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        TBGBe last edited by

        There is no need/benefit in “recognising” R08, R67 etc.
        Besides, partial extraction is not supported.

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          davidsplash @TBGBe last edited by

          this is a good point to make 7zip file manager supports this so why not pa, it can be done and is needed the other day at work i had to install the 7zip file manager cause of this program with pa. This will ecrtainmly drive custoimers away and towards winrar

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            Imaginelane last edited by

            I’m glad it’s not my ineptitude. If I went in to folder options and related all the file extensions to PA RAR files it would probably work, but c’mon…another option would be to rename all the files using a batch renamer utility like File Renamer to have *_part1.rar as a name instead of *.R01…etc. That I know would work. The question is how much work should one have to do for a product that says they support such file types?

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              TBGBe @Imaginelane last edited by

              But why is it necessary/needed :confused:
              *.rar. *.r00 and *.r01 are associated - I don’t see a benefit having “anyname.r28” associated.

              The work involved is to “bloat” the registry with 98 silly extension associations - this is why RAR changed their naming scheme in the first place.

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                davidsplash @TBGBe last edited by

                what i think he is trying to say yes it would be nice to have them associated. However the point that he also made was that you can not extract files from an incomplete set of spanned rar files which you can do with the 7zip filke manager and why is this.

                when will this be fixed

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                  TBGBe @davidsplash last edited by

                  @davidsplash:

                  … you can not extract files from an incomplete set of spanned rar files …

                  Yep
                  @TBGBe:

                  Besides, partial extraction is not supported.

                  As I said. :p

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                    Imaginelane @TBGBe last edited by

                    Wow, I’m dumb…It handles it with even less BS than I could’ve imagined…open the .rar and it grabs the rest…duh…:o

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                      TBGBe @Imaginelane last edited by

                      Ah now I see… You were referring to extracting, not the assoicated icons etc.

                      A misconception (they must be associated in order to extract) is not dumb by any means - but it sometimes helps to “Just try it first” ;)

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