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.
Solved Some settings not restored in PA portable
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On latest PA 17.00.69 x64 portable, some settings are not properly restored on launch. For instance View->Windows->Preview pane when settings are exported, are properly saved:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PowerArchiverInt\General]
“UsePreview”=dword:00000000But when I launch PA again, preview pane is still there, so it seems they are not properly loaded. I can confirm that works on PA 17.00.69 not portable.
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@nikkho check: C:\portableinstallationfolder\saved_configuraton\file1.reg file for what is saved in Portable registry. Keep in mind it is completely different registry key from main PA, so it has nothing to do with each other, they are independent.
thanks!
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Thank you. Sorry for the confusion. Was not aware of this new reg file for the portable edition.
You can discard this then.
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@nikkho ah, ok. Yeah, keep in mind portable is there to be used on anyone’s computer without changing their PA installation. So they are kept completely separate.
Portable can be use from usb and it will save settings to usb, and you should have same settings no matter where you use it.
Thanks!
