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.
Behavior with *.pbs files a bug? (PA 2009, V11)
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Hello,
when i double-clicked a *.pbs file with version 10
the dialog opened where i could change the backup-options.
Then i could start the backup-process manually.When i double-click a *.pbs file with version 11
the backup-process starts immediately, so there is no chance to change the options… -
In Windows Explorer you should be able to right click the PBS and select ‘Edit’ from the menu. That will open the script for editing in PA.
Edit and Open (double click) are defined in the registry under: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PAPBS\Shell
There are the following keys and commands.
Edit "C:\Programs\PowerArchiver\POWERARC.EXE" /edit "%1" Open "C:\Programs\PowerArchiver\POWERARC.EXE" "%1" ```If you want the default double click to be open the PBS in edit mode just change the entry for Open to be the same as Edit. Here is a screenshot after the change to the Open command. _Your path will be different_.  -
OK, its a feature then, not a bug…
THX! :)
