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
Wrong password makes PB4 go crazy
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1. I have encrypted a file resulting in *.pae
2. entered a wrong password when trying to open it
3. a message opened saying just that
4. I input a password again (do not know whether it was correct this time)
5. the name of the file disappeared from the left screen
6. clicking into the left screen resulted in the random opening of blue rectangulars, etc and PA became totally unresponsive -
how big is the pae file?
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4.74 KB (4860 bytes)
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basically i can confirm this if you enter the wrong password powerarchiver tries to extract the file then tells you that the password is wrong shouldn’t it tell you before it extracts the file or even tried too. even though nothing is extracted at the end result.
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basically i can fonfirm this if you enter the wrong password powerarchiver tries to extract the file then tells you that the password is wrong shouldn’t it tell you before it extracts the file or even tried too. even though nothing is extracted at the end result.
thank you for your valuable input david!
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1. I have encrypted a file resulting in *.pae
2. entered a wrong password when trying to open it
3. a message opened saying just that
4. I input a password again (do not know whether it was correct this time)
5. the name of the file disappeared from the left screen
6. clicking into the left screen resulted in the random opening of blue rectangulars, etc and PA became totally unresponsivewhat kind of pae file is it? zip, etc? How are you opening it?
We tried to reproduce it but it works fine, so more details needed.
