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.
Unsolved hang when using the Test function with 7z archives
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I seem to have found a bug :o
I’ve tested with several different files, and PowerArchiver always hangs indefinitely when the Test function is used with a 7zip type archive (at least files created with this version of PowerArchiver, I did not have files created with other software to test with). It just does not work, and the process needs to be manually terminated. With other types of archive like zip the Test function does work properly, the problem is only with 7z files.
Windows 8.1 64-bit, latest PowerArchiver version in x64
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@Big_Boss said in hang when using the Test function with 7z archives:
I seem to have found a bug :o
I’ve tested with several different files, and PowerArchiver always hangs indefinitely when the Test function is used with a 7zip type archive (at least files created with this version of PowerArchiver, I did not have files created with other software to test with). It just does not work, and the process needs to be manually terminated. With other types of archive like zip the Test function does work properly, the problem is only with 7z files.
Windows 8.1 64-bit, latest PowerArchiver version in x64
Thanks for the report, @Mili will write it up
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I just noticed by accident that this bug still seems to exist in version 19.00.50 :o I had forgotten about it since I use the Test function so randomly. Thought it would be worth mentioning here. Keep up the good work, guys. :)
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Same here.
Confirmed with 19.00.51. -
finally got it reproduced and logged in, thanks all!
