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

    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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    Extracting .exe archives via right click.

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    • skypxS
      skypx
      last edited by

      I noticed this before and I’ve addressed it a while back so please bear with me. I can extract .exe files with PA2009 if I first open PA2009, select open archive, and then select all files. From here I can extract the file without any issues, but the option is not available to extract it via right click (yes I looked in the shell extension options). Because of this I use WinZip 12. Can this option be added to PA2009?

      PA2009

      WinZip 12

      ASUS Crosshair VII Hero
      AMD Ryzen 9 5700X
      T-Force DDR4 3600 32GB
      Samsung 970 EVO 2TB
      GTX 3080ti
      Win10 x64

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      • spwolfS
        spwolf conexware
        last edited by

        it actually depends on the .exe itself… send us url to the one that does not work, and we will add support for it… Not all SFX files are created equal…

        thanks

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        • skypxS
          skypx @spwolf
          last edited by

          @spwolf:

          it actually depends on the .exe itself… send us url to the one that does not work, and we will add support for it… Not all SFX files are created equal…

          thanks

          Cool, here is the link…. Thank you.

          http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload/download_confirmation.asp?url=http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/178.24/178.24_geforce_winvista_64bit_english_whql.exe

          ASUS Crosshair VII Hero
          AMD Ryzen 9 5700X
          T-Force DDR4 3600 32GB
          Samsung 970 EVO 2TB
          GTX 3080ti
          Win10 x64

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          • spwolfS
            spwolf conexware
            last edited by

            Please try with this release:
            http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/release10/powarc1102.exe

            and let us know if it works.

            thanks!

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