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.
Bug in rar compression support
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I just wanted to mention that support for compression to rar doesn’t work properly. When I compress a directory, in the archive I get the content of this directory. This is especially annoying when I compress several directories or files and directories - then I get the content of that directories mixed together.
The problem occurs in versions 15.04.03 and 16.00.46.
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Did you try 16.00.51?
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/powarc160051.exe
Should be up in few minutes. Various fixes/improvements.
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I just wanted to mention that support for compression to rar doesn’t work properly. When I compress a directory, in the archive I get the content of this directory. This is especially annoying when I compress several directories or files and directories - then I get the content of that directories mixed together.
The problem occurs in versions 15.04.03 and 16.00.46.
thanks, logged it in!
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Did you try 16.00.51?
I tryed it a moment ago. Unfortunately, there is the same problem. It seems to me that PowerArchiver passes wrong parameters to rar.exe.
It’s something like:
rar.exe a -y -r0 -m4 -ep1 name.rar “C:\…\Test\DirectoryName”
Should be:
rar.exe a -y -r0 -m4 -ep1 name.rar “C:…\Test\DirectoryName”Without “” symbol at the end.
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Latest release:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/powarc160053.exeThis should be fixed now. We had to call rar.exe from root/base folder of desired path so we could get proper relative paths stored for multiple folders (previously -ep1 was used to get same effect but it didnt work with multiple folders)… Thanks!
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Works like a charm :) Good job.
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Works like a charm :) Good job.
thanks for letting us know… if you notice anything else, or need some other improvement for this features, you know where to write now :-)
