Moving file from one encrypted archive to another

Socrates

Questions.

Sometimes I want to move a single file from one archive to another.

This seems to work just fine with D&D.

But the problem arises if both files are encrypted AND the passwords are different . . .

When I try to do this a dialogue box opens wanting to know the password.

I ASSUMED it first wanted the password from the archive FROM WHICH I was dragging the file. But I have had a mess working on that assumption.

Am I mistaken?

I am having, too, what I take to be a related problem.

Suppose I want to update a file (call it file ‘A’) in an encrypted archive by ADDING a single file (call it ‘B’) from another archive.

PA doesn’t seem to know what to do.

Among other things, I do NOT get the dialogue box wanting to know if I want to update file A (even though I have that box checked in the configuration settings).

Am I trying to do just what cannot be done? Or I am botching my execution?

Mili

This is how I tested

Archive A and Archive B, both encrypted with different passwords.

1.Move file from Archive A into Archive B
2. PA asks for password from Archive A, enter correct password
3. D&D dialog comes up as it should, selected my desired settings, click OK and file was added properly.

Socrates

Sorry I was unclear. There is a second element of my problem.

First, you didn’t mention when I get the request for a PW for B archive (the 2nd archive).

There is a second element of my problem.

I am not JUST adding the file. I am opening a file in B – which opens after I enter the relevant pw. Then I am adding a file from A to that open file (the 2nd file is a portfolio.

I should then get a dialogue asking me if I want to update the resultant file in B. I do not get said dialogue, and it doesn’t add the file.

I am not sure this explanation is much clearer. If so, not to worry.

I have a more lengthy workaround.

Mili

I would recommend that we name things correctly so we don’t confuse them.
Let’s refer to an Archive as Archive and a file that’s inside an archive, File.

Given that, I would need some clarification as to what this part means and how it is related to the report in the first post;

“I am not JUST adding the file. I am opening a file in B – which opens after I enter the relevant pw. Then I am adding a file from A to that open file (the 2nd file is a portfolio.”

Thanks!

Mili

Moreover, how do you update a file inside an archive by adding a file to that file?

Socrates

@Mili:

Moreover, how do you update a file inside an archive by adding a file to that file?

You could do that with almost any file, but I mainly do it with a PDF portfolio. With a PDF portfolio, you can just drag a file into it. If I am NOT dragging it from another encrypted archive PA correctly asks if I want the FILE within the 2nd Archive updated.

Seems as if (a) I cannot explain this clearly enough, and (b) it probably cannot do what I want done, so I will stick with the workaround. Sorry for the bother.