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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
Icon in file replace dialog
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I know this is minor but I wanted to mention it anyway.
When I extract files from an archive using PA, and I get an overwrite confirmation as shown in the attached screen shot, the source file doesn’t have an icon shown. I’m not sure why this would be, given that the source file at that point has already been extracted to a temporary folder.
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Hm, this is not PowerArchiver overwrite dialog - someone else utility. No PA Overwrite dialog has file icons on it.
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That’s the dialog that appears when I drag a file from a PA window into a folder where a same-named file resides. The icon comes (or should come) from the file itself. Maybe this is “a Windows thing”, I don’t know, but it does happen when dragging from a PA window.
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That’s the dialog that appears when I drag a file from a PA window into a folder where a same-named file resides. The icon comes (or should come) from the file itself. Maybe this is “a Windows thing”, I don’t know, but it does happen when dragging from a PA window.
if you are drag and dropping, it is standard Windows copy dialogue thats controlled by Windows.
Try overwriting via Extract and you will see the difference.
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So why is it that when open a given archive in WinRAR, and drag from it, I do get an icon shown for the source file… But if I open the same archive in PA and drag, I don’t?
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good question, maybe it has something to do from where file is being copied… Ivan will check it out.
