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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 2009 & DVD burning
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Hi,
I have a question on DVD burning with PA2009:One of my folders that holds around 7GB files (within its subfolders). I wanted to burn this folder on a DVD (single layered). I was surprised to see that after entering the folder to burn, I got no warning except for the red bar. So I thought PA2009 was going to span files over 2 DVD, but it crashed (froze) at the end of DVD 1, and after a reboot, I saw that the 1rst DVD was supposed to hold all the files (the “FAT” equivalent was listing all of them).
I have not tried backup yet, just the regular burning feature.
Is this normal ?
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yes, PA does not span discs automatically right now and it is not that simple to implement in the future either.
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Thanks for the confirmation. Still, it would be nice to have a stronger warning before burning is started.
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Thanks for the confirmation. Still, it would be nice to have a stronger warning before burning is started.
we will add it to the list for the future versions… we do allow for overburning if possible, which is why it proceeds.
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we will add it to the list for the future versions… we do allow for overburning if possible, which is why it proceeds.
OK. To be honest, I said PA froze at the end of DVD1, but this might also be due to a glitch I sometimes get while burning DVD. If this also happens on your side, you might want to add a way to exit more gracefully.
Thanks !
