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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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    Bug in rar compression support

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      Integer
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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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      • skypxS
        skypx
        last edited by

        Did you try 16.00.51?

        @spwolf:

        http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/powarc160051.exe

        Should be up in few minutes. Various fixes/improvements.

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        • spwolfS
          spwolf conexware
          last edited by

          @Integer:

          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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            Integer @skypx
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            @skypx:

            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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            • spwolfS
              spwolf conexware
              last edited by

              Latest release:
              http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/powarc160053.exe

              This 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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                Integer @spwolf
                last edited by

                Works like a charm :) Good job.

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                • spwolfS
                  spwolf conexware @Integer
                  last edited by

                  @Integer:

                  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 :-)

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