BETA: PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.10.02

[Mili]

deflate method with maximum compression?

anything else checkmarked other than “include system and hidden files”?

and, mode selected for spanning? (you can see it in the drop down menu below the span size options.

[dragon57]

Method is Bzip2, compression is normal. The file was split using Winzip (I don’t see a split/span mode type option in Winzip).

[spwolf]

what version of PA are you using exactly?

[dragon57]

11.60.20

[spwolf]

and do you know what version of WinZip? And what settings did you use? So we can try to re-create the archive.

thanks

[dragon57]

The flow is rather strange. The archive was originally created with 7zip using Method=Bzip2, compression=normal. The archive was one large file.

After the archive was created it was transferred across a wan where it was decided it should be split. The user only had Winzip 11.2 (build 8094) and split the file into DVD sized files.

I can unzip the split archive on my local machine using 7zip, Winzip, and Winrar. The only problem is with the latest build of PA.

[spwolf]

hm, i have to find some older WZ because latest versions report an error when splitting large zip created with 7zip.

[drteeth]

@spwolf:

hm, i have to find some older WZ because latest versions report an error when splitting large zip created with 7zip.

http://www.oldversion.com/WinZip.html

[dragon57]

Is the new 11.60 build release today supposed to address this? If so, it still hangs. If not, never mind :).

[spwolf]

nope, could not reproduce.

are these vmware image files downloadable somewhere? i have tried creating similar example, but everything worked fine. It might be something that was special to files compressed.

[dragon57]

No, the image files are not distributable. I will see if I can come up with a reproducible scenario and set of accompanying steps.

[spwolf]

@dragon57:

No, the image files are not distributable. I will see if I can come up with a reproducible scenario and set of accompanying steps.

that would definetly help us solve the issue…. i created several similar files (filename and filesize), compressed it to bzip, normal in 7z and then spanned it in WZ and works fine here. It probably is more specific that simple spanning on bzip does not work.

[dragon57]

I just recreated the problem using the rfdc tool I referenced in this post:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3959

I created a directory called ‘CentOS 5 64-bit - coelin1’. Inside this directory I ran these commands:
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s001.vmdk” 2015232000
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s002.vmdk” 2083323904
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s003.vmdk” 2081226752
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s004.vmdk” 1866072064
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s005.vmdk” 120782848
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s006.vmdk” 324141056
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s007.vmdk” 1457127424
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s008.vmdk” 1235353600
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s009.vmdk” 418775040
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s010.vmdk” 919273472
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s011.vmdk” 621019136
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s012.vmdk” 232062976
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s013.vmdk” 247988224
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s014.vmdk” 1548877824
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s015.vmdk” 2082209792
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s016.vmdk” 15794176
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s017.vmdk” 2064908288
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s018.vmdk” 2081685504
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s019.vmdk” 2081226752
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s020.vmdk” 2081292288
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s021.vmdk” 2080702464
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s022.vmdk” 2080702464
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s023.vmdk” 2076704768
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s024.vmdk” 2080964608
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s025.vmdk” 2080702464
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s026.vmdk” 2080702464
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s027.vmdk” 2080899072
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s028.vmdk” 2080702464
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s029.vmdk” 1718157312
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s030.vmdk” 273743872
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s031.vmdk” 2097152
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit-s032.vmdk” 65536
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit.nvram” 8684
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit.vmdk” 2392
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit.vmsd” 573
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit.vmx” 2940
rdfc “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit.vmxf” 288

I then used 7zip to create a zip file using the settings mentioned earlier in this post. Next, I used Winzip to split this zip into DVD sized files. Finally, I used PA to unzip the split zip. PA eventually hung trying to unzip the split files.

Hopefully you can recreate the problem using these steps.

Let me know if you have any questions.

[spwolf]

reproduced! :-)

[dragon57]

Great!

[spwolf]

PA 2010 11.60.25 is here:
http://bit.ly/4snT7H

check it out and see if it solves your issue.
It seems that split bz2 zip files were not properly supported!

thanks

[dragon57]

Works!

Many, many thanks.

[spwolf]

@dragon57:

Works!

Many, many thanks.

thank you for reproducible reports :-)

[dragon57]

Luckily I have ocd when it comes to details :).