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
PowerArchiver not keeping folders?
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I’m trying to archive a TAR GZIPed and having some problems I’m trying to archive a folder that has 4 sub folders within it. However, after the archive is complete I see it has taken all of the files within each folder and just dumped them out in the archive. How do I fix this? I have the problem with the current version and also had the problem with powerarchiver 2001.
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Are you sure that the option “store full pathname” or relative pathname is selected.
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Yes, I have that option selected
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How are you doing this
- via shell
- within PA GUI (modern / classic)
and which method i.e. are you using the profile or “compress with options” or …
Also - approx size of path(s) and of (uncompressed) files?
P.P.S. Do the subfolders have files or are they empty?
Note: it works for me using shell / compress with options
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Well I’m not a pro with this program….not sure what your talking about when you mention shell and PA GUI.
-No the folders are not empty
-each folder has around 35-60MB of files within the folder
-the total size of the whole thing is about 150MBHow I’m currently trying:
I start powerarchiver, go to file, new, type in the name i wish (ootpreport), and TAR GZIPed file option. I select store full paths and then the folder I wish to archive. -
Well I’m not a pro with this program….not sure what your talking about when you mention shell and PA GUI.
“shell extensions” is using the right click menu from Windows Explorer.
@ELDoro:How I’m currently trying:
I start powerarchiver, go to file, new, type in the name i wish (ootpreport), and TAR GZIPed file option. I select store full paths and then the folder I wish to archive.OK, you are using PA GUI (ie within PowerArchiver itself).
@ELDoro:-No the folders are not empty
-each folder has around 35-60MB of files within the folder
-the total size of the whole thing is about 150MBSo, nothing there. Only other thing I can think of are the folder names using “western characters” or do they have Unicode characters (accents etc)?
What is the exact version number of PA you are using (see Help / About)? Whether unregistered or registered (as Standard or Professional) is not relevant for this problem.
What version of Windows - e.g. XP, Vista (32 or 64 bit)?
Just to double check - you are aware that the path is displayed as a seperate field when viewed within PA (normally the last field in the display) - check that you have not suppressed view of path [under Options / View / File Listing / Columns].
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-No the folder names are not using accents. Although 2 of 8 folders do contain “_” in the file name….but the 6 without it arnt working as well so not sure that is the problem.
-my version: 11.00.72 (trial version so far)
-Windows Home XP 32
-For this part - “check that you have not suppressed view of path [under Options / View / File Listing / Columns].” I’m not finding this within PA……
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Ok, i may be on to a solution. Its letting me add the folder that contains the separate folders I was having trouble with before. However, because how my website is setup I need these folders to not be inside one larger folder.
-One way I thought I might be able to fool PA was to create the archive with the main folder, then deleted the folder and tried selecting all of the sub folders I’m trying to archive and dragging them into PA. It seems to start adding them to the archive but then always freezes at 4 seconds…tried 4 times all with the same freeze result at 4 seconds.
any ideas?
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You can’t do that only save full folder structure or no folder info (there is no relative path option with TAR).
Could you “move” the folders to the root e.g.
C:\folder1
C:\folder2and then archive them (with full path)?
One way I thought I might be able to fool PA was to create the archive with the main folder, then deleted the folder and tried selecting all of the sub folders I’m trying to archive and dragging them into PA.
Sorry, I don’t understand the process you are describing.
When you delete a folder you delete all contents (same as in windows). so there is nothing to drag. The 4 secs may be the delay in completing the delete action.my version: 11.00.72 (trial version so far)[\QUOTE]
The version available now is updated (I think it is 11.00.78 now). Note the trial period continues, it will not reset.Regarding the settings - I meant
Options / Configuration / View (etc)Sorry if it confused you.
