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
Can't open Quake 2 .pak files
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I was always under the assumption that Quake 2’s pak files were just renamed zip files just like quake 3/4/Doom 3 archives are.
When I double click on the file, it opens in powerarchiver but shows no items in the list. No files no folders. Running version 2011 (12.00.54) July 7th.See attached image for what the program looks like after trying to open the file.
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confirmed.
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do all pak files get this or just quakes pak files?
Do other archivers correctly open this quake pak file?thanks!!
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I’m guessing they structured the earlier version of the pak files differently Mili…the pak files in the quakes after number 2 open fine in PA and display the contents…I tested the pak files from quake 3 earlier.
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Anybody working on this? Admins?
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it is completely different format, check this utility:
http://www.elberethzone.net/en/dup-download.htmllet me know if it worked fine…
thanks!
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I actually used another tool PakExplorer, I guess they aren’t zip formats after all. Thank you for your response though spwolf :)
