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.
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
Windows 7 ISO Files
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I have had the installation ISO images of several language versions (US English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese) of Windows 7 DVD for some time. Sometimes I need to extract files from the DVD ISO but PowerArchiver (2007, 2009 and now 2010) always failed to do so. When I attempted to open the ISO files using PowerArchiver, all I see are 2 or 3 files named “no_emul.000” and “readme.txt” or similar.
I am forced to use other softwares such as the free 7-zip or another paid software PowerISO to do this. Interestingly, when I convert the Windows 7 ISO files using PowerISO to the ISO format, PowerArchiver will then be able to open the converted files successfully.
My question is, are the Windows 7 ISO files of a different format than “normal” ISO files? Will PowerArchiver ever have the ability to directly open them, if not now, in future versions? Do you plan to implement such a functionality?
I find it hard to understand why the free 7-zip have this ability while the paid PowerArchiver does not have it.
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Bond! (always wanted to say that)
PA 2010 does not support extracting UDF ISOs, that is something we have implemented in PA 2011 which should be out very very soon.
:)
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I’m sure he will be unmistakably ‘shaken’ & not ‘stirred’ at that news Mili…:)
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@James:
I have had the installation ISO images of several language versions (US English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese) of Windows 7 DVD for some time. Sometimes I need to extract files from the DVD ISO but PowerArchiver (2007, 2009 and now 2010) always failed to do so. When I attempted to open the ISO files using PowerArchiver, all I see are 2 or 3 files named “no_emul.000” and “readme.txt” or similar.
I am forced to use other softwares such as the free 7-zip or another paid software PowerISO to do this. Interestingly, when I convert the Windows 7 ISO files using PowerISO to the ISO format, PowerArchiver will then be able to open the converted files successfully.
My question is, are the Windows 7 ISO files of a different format than “normal” ISO files? Will PowerArchiver ever have the ability to directly open them, if not now, in future versions? Do you plan to implement such a functionality?
I find it hard to understand why the free 7-zip have this ability while the paid PowerArchiver does not have it.
If you download PA 2011 in few hours from now (when it becomes available), you will get that ISO functionality… plus you will also be able to create ISO UDF files :-)
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ok, so PA 2011 is out on download pages, and you can download it now!
