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.
CRC error when out of space
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When I try to extract a multi-part RAR file (i.e. r01, r02) to a drive that runs out of space during extraction, PowerArchiver reports a CRC error in the part that it is extracting from when the drive runs out of space… freeing up space and re-attempting extraction works fine with no CRC errors.
This has been going on for awhile because I’ve had it happen before with earlier versions. Is it a known problem?
Thanks.
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So what’s the problem? PowerArchiver reports an error because there is no enough space and so it is not possible to restore the original file there.
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But it doesn’t report an error saying that there’s no space left. It says there’s a CRC error in the file it’s extracting when space runs out when that’s not the real problem.
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it is general error that says many things, including crc and lack of space, right? :-).
we will see if we can be more specific, thanks.
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No, the error expliticly mentions a CRC error and only a CRC error.
The exact text is as follows, in a dialog with a red X icon:
“There is a CRC error on file:<file being=”" extracted=“” from=“” multi-part=“” rar=“”>
Volume:<part being=“” extracted=“” when=“” out=“” of=“” space=“”>Continue?"
…with Yes/No buttons.
If I then try and extract the same file to a drive that has enough space, it succeeds without any problems.</part></file>
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@mbg:
No, the error expliticly mentions a CRC error and only a CRC error.
The exact text is as follows, in a dialog with a red X icon:
“There is a CRC error on file:<file being=”" extracted=“” from=“” multi-part=“” rar=“”>
Volume:<part being=“” extracted=“” when=“” out=“” of=“” space=“”>Continue?"
…with Yes/No buttons.
If I then try and extract the same file to a drive that has enough space, it succeeds without any problems.</part></file>
great, we will see if we can improve it… thanks!
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This problem has been bugging me for a long time now. CRC error implies that the archive is corrupt and not “not enough space”. To get rid of this problem just check if there’s enough space on the drive for all the files in the archive…and warn user if there’s not enough space. Since every type of archive doesn’t contain extracted file sizes you can do a “free space” check right before poping up the error message and decide on what message to display. That’s VERY easy to code… :cool:
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it was wrong error shown, it will be fixed, i think it is in internal versions.
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please check with official beta 1, and let us know if this has been fixed… thank you!
