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.
PA on Win7 comments on Scott Hanselman's blog
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Scott Hansleman did a little run down of applications that use features of Win7 (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/LightItUpListOfApplicationsThatUseNewWindows7Features.aspx) and had this to say about PA:
I tend to lean towards 7-zip for its minimalist UI, but PowerArchiver has JumpLists and Icon Overlays. Oddly, they call the Win7-looking interface the “Power Users Interface,” presumably as to avoid freaking out your grandpa who’s zipping stuff up with the Classic Interface. The whole package is close but not 100%. For example, they use an icon overlay during an extract rather than a progress bar. That’s just wrong, and it should be fixed ASAP.
I have no idea what he’s talking about as far as the problem that “should be fixed ASAP” (I’m not running Win7 yet). But I figured you guys should be made aware in case you’re not already (I think that Hanselman is reasonably influential - at least among developers, FWIW).
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Scott Hansleman did a little run down of applications that use features of Win7 (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/LightItUpListOfApplicationsThatUseNewWindows7Features.aspx) and had this to say about PA:
I have no idea what he’s talking about as far as the problem that “should be fixed ASAP” (I’m not running Win7 yet). But I figured you guys should be made aware in case you’re not already (I think that Hanselman is reasonably influential - at least among developers, FWIW).
nice ;-).
there was an bug with progress bar display in taskbar… we managed to locate it and it is actually fixed in .29 or .30 (whatever i have the latest)
