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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!
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
Backup Express Lite
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The backup options menu appears to allow for password protection for .bh files but it does not work. The check box for “protect with password” does not dim when .bh is selected, indicating this feature is possible. Maybe it is not supposed to be indicating this…… Otherwise, nice job again, guys!
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thanks, we will check it out!
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Under the main “Add” window and under the “Options” tab the “Set Password” button is not deactivated when using blakhole compression. Clicking on it does indeed respond with a request for password, but a password cannot be set. This is much the same as what I’ve indicated concerning Backup Express Lite. I hope I am not driving you crazy, Spwolf, with all these picky observations. I only mean to help.
Chuck :)
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actually, BH format has possibility of encryption, but it is not enabled in PA. So actual problem is that encryption is not enabled.
We will check it out for 9.2
thanks,
