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    PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files
    Brian GregoryB

    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.

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    Convert archive is incorrect for some WinRAR 5 archives
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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.

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    PA can't extract; XXX does…#4

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    • manuangiM
      manuangi
      last edited by

      download the latest version of Nero BurningRom:
      ftp://ftp7.us.nero.com/nero6606.exe

      then try to extract it with PA via context menu: you’ll have no options to extract.

      that exe is a RAR sfx file, compressed by 70%…you can see that using WinRAR, for example. and wr can extract it via its context menu.

      open the exe with PowerArchiver, click Properties, and you’ll see PA can’t recognize the type of file, showing 0% compression.

      however, when you have opened it with PA, you’ll be able to extract it.

      this is a bug…isn’t it?

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      • spwolfS
        spwolf conexware
        last edited by

        Hi,

        I will download it and check it out. It should work fine (otherwise it is an issue of course), as long as you have all of the proper SFX options selected :-))))).

        thanks,

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        • manuangiM
          manuangi @spwolf
          last edited by

          @spwolf:

          Hi,

          I will download it and check it out. It should work fine (otherwise it is an issue of course), as long as you have all of the proper SFX options selected :-))))).

          thanks,

          yes, this time I have that option checked! :p yet, PA doesn’t recognize the file as an sfx one…let me know!

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            davidsplash @manuangi
            last edited by

            yes its an issue but it is down to the way pa handle the unrar.dll and that really is a winrar fault as they upadte their format quicker than their unrar.dll

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            • spwolfS
              spwolf conexware @manuangi
              last edited by

              @manuangi:

              yes, this time I have that option checked! :p yet, PA doesn’t recognize the file as an sfx one…let me know!

              Yep, I will let you know once I download and check it out.

              thanks,

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              • manuangiM
                manuangi @spwolf
                last edited by

                @spwolf:

                Yep, I will let you know once I download and check it out.

                thanks,

                so, any news about this, mate? :rolleyes:

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                • spwolfS
                  spwolf conexware @manuangi
                  last edited by

                  @manuangi:

                  so, any news about this, mate? :rolleyes:

                  It works quite fine in 9.2, hm, I wonder why? ;)

                  thanks,

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                  • manuangiM
                    manuangi @spwolf
                    last edited by

                    @spwolf:

                    It works quite fine in 9.2, hm, I wonder why? ;)

                    thanks to me! :D :p …longing for 9.2! :)

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                      davidsplash @manuangi
                      last edited by

                      i can comfirm it work in latest alpha

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                      • manuangiM
                        manuangi @davidsplash
                        last edited by

                        well done! ;)

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