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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
Extracting large tar files (more that 4GB?) does not work, incomplete extraction
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Hello
I think I found a bug.
I have a .tar.bz2 file (I also tried with the standalone .tar version with same result), that is 2.5GB (the uncompressed .tar is 8.1G).
I extract the files from the .tar.gz, and only get a partial extraction. Trying to extract the ‘missing’ files manually, the file do get extracted, but are then extracted as 0-bytes file.
The archive (.tar.gz) I have problem with can be downloaded from Backtrack web site (a Linux distribution). At www.backtrack-linux.org, in the download section, it’s the ‘BackTrack 4 R1 Release VMware Image’. The archive is 2.5G.
I tried with another decompressor and that worked fine.
This is with PA 2010 11.61.06
Regards
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MOving to PowerArchiver Support - not reported as a PACL fault (although a similar size limit may apply to PACL as well).
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Hello
I think I found a bug.
I have a .tar.bz2 file (I also tried with the standalone .tar version with same result), that is 2.5GB (the uncompressed .tar is 8.1G).
I extract the files from the .tar.gz, and only get a partial extraction. Trying to extract the ‘missing’ files manually, the file do get extracted, but are then extracted as 0-bytes file.
The archive (.tar.gz) I have problem with can be downloaded from Backtrack web site (a Linux distribution). At www.backtrack-linux.org, in the download section, it’s the ‘BackTrack 4 R1 Release VMware Image’. The archive is 2.5G.
I tried with another decompressor and that worked fine.
This is with PA 2010 11.61.06
Regards
Erici am not sure what is the size limit in our support for TAR, it could be less than 8 GB easily…
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I noticed &zip has only recently added support for TAR > 8GB. So if there is a current limit, this could be an interesting wishlist (for both PA and PACL)?
