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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!
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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
PA 2010 Beta - Missing "Write Directly Into ZIP"
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I’ve been creating rather large ZIP files with PA Backup lately, in the neighbourhood of 18GB, for instance. Initially I encountered problems where the backup job would time-out and fail as it was building an index (?) in memory or temporary disk storage. Once I realized this I turned on the “Write directly into ZIP” option under the Compression and Encryption tab. This worked beautifully as it starting writing the output ZIP file while it was still building the backup file in the background.
To my dismay, the 2010 Beta doesn’t seem to offer the “Write directly into ZIP” feature any more. Is this intended or just an oversight?
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does that still happen in PA 2010? Did you try your backup in PA 2010?
It is indeed an oversight (as much as I am aware off), only difference should be location of the temp drive, and you can force that via Config> Misc> Use current folder as temp. See if that helps.
thanks,
