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.
When adding to a file archive, and selecting for example PA format, strong optimization method, extreme compression. In the Advanced Options section you change to Automatic, EXE Filter and PDF filter . You return to the main section and save the Profile. When you then reload the profile you do not have the Automatic options of EXE Filter and PDF saved there.
I noticed that instead if you change other options they are saved correctly (except for the Filter box values).
Also among the various changes to the advanced options you click the “Calculate RAM usage” button the value seems to be added to the previous one. You can see it for example just by clicking the button twice in a row, the value changes. Edit: actually after many attempts now it seems to write a stable value (it does not change with each click). Maybe a synchronization problem in the calculation?
Used PowerArchivier 2023 but there is the same behavior with the 2022
Solved A dashboard test requests an open archive... shell test command doesn't
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In the dashboard you first have to open an archive before the TEST icon is available (unfaded) and test can be executed.
In explorer you select an archive folder and through shell command ‘power archiver/test’ the test is executed… no need to open the archive !!
Extra remark : the test via shell commands just reports an ‘OK’, no details on files in archive or file size… ?? Other routines/subroutines for a same action?
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@pirrbe Test via shell show progress in progress window where all of the files are listed. In main PA, different interface is used. This is done so main PA interface does not have to be loaded.
In the end, it is same simple command to the engine, it is always full archive tested.
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thx, once again learned about PA’s internal households :-)
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test uploading scr_prints after new upgrade communic.package :
