Archives .pa or Backupscripts .pa conflicts with open Office files

pirrbe

If you archive or backup your MS Office files in .pa compression, be sure that they are not in ‘open’ status. PA will kill the contents, and results ZERO archives/backups !
(also for Softmaker Office 2018 files - MS office clone)

- Test of an Archive with an ‘open’ PDF files in .PA : no problems

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Test of an Archive ‘open MS Office file’ in .PA : killed contents = zero file archive

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Test of a Backup with an ‘open MS Office file’ in .pa : killed contents=zero file
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(disaster if in this situation you activate the 'delete original…)
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With ‘open’ MS Office files in .ZIP compression : NO PROBLEMS
With ‘open’ PDF files in .PA compression : NO PROBLEMS
With ‘open’ MS Office files (excel/word) in .PA compression : ZERO contents… and potential risk of lost file contents

So why .zips do allways the job even with ‘open’ office files and .pa conflicts and kills your files ?

spwolf

@pirrbe you mean it does not compress files in use - it does not “kill the contents” which would probably mean it rewrites original files? It should show an error at least, we will check it out.

pirrbe

@spwolf It is a potential killer if you active also ‘delete original file’ after backup… Or after the ‘no error’ report you delete your original file…
Or your have a ‘crash’ on your data partition and want to use your Power Archives …??? So there it is a potential killer :-).
Maybe ‘killer’ is a too strong word to express ‘data lost’.

spwolf

@pirrbe said in Archives .pa or Backupscripts .pa conflicts with open Office files:

@spwolf It is a potential killer if you active also ‘delete original file’ after backup… Or after the ‘no error’ report you delete your original file…
Or your have a ‘crash’ on your data partition and want to use your Power Archives …??? So there it is a potential killer :-).
Maybe ‘killer’ is a too strong word to express ‘data lost’.

it is “does not compress files in use” (depending on program opened in)… yes of course there should be an error. We will check it out.

How does it work in 7z for you?

spwolf

@pirrbe can you send us some docx that you can reproduce it with and what version of Office are you using? Thanks!

pirrbe

@spwolf ok, np. Testing now 7z but all my original docx are gone :-). Np, will recreate them.

spwolf

@pirrbe said in Archives .pa or Backupscripts .pa conflicts with open Office files:

@spwolf ok, np. Testing now 7z but all my original docx are gone :-). Np, will recreate them.

what version of office are you using? There might be a difference between versions.

pirrbe

@spwolf MS office 2016 or AS (softmaker) Office 2018

pirrbe

@pirrbe 7z acts as .pa : zero archive/backup with an open Office file

spwolf

@pirrbe said in Archives .pa or Backupscripts .pa conflicts with open Office files:

@pirrbe 7z acts as .pa : zero archive/backup with an open Office file

Is this the same for both backup and shell compress to. pa or just backup?

Merci!

pirrbe

@spwolf it is for ‘Archive’ and also when using ‘Backup’ Script .pbs through PA dashboard

spwolf

@pirrbe said in Archives .pa or Backupscripts .pa conflicts with open Office files:

@spwolf it is for ‘Archive’ and also when using ‘Backup’ Script .pbs through PA dashboard

thanks for the sending all the extra info via support system, we will be checking this out soon!