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
Unsolved PA needs longer to close when mp3-file from archive is opened
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I don’t know if it is a windows thing or not but when I open for example an mp3-file from an archive and close PA while the media player is still running then PA needs several seconds to actually close.
Edit: I tried to open the music file with VLC instead of windows media player and PA closed directly after hitting the X. So maybe it has more something to do with windows media player that prevents PA to close instantly?
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Hi @ACE135
how long does it take to close for you?
Just tested it and PA closed in a second and a half while playing an mp3.Thanks
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Normally PA closes in about 0.2 seconds I would say. With a file still playing in WMP from that archive it takes PA about 3 to 5 seconds to close.
I forgot to mention that I’m using PA 2018 18.02.02 on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit if that helps.
I just thought that maybe there is something that can be done on PAs side to this “problem”.
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@ACE135 said in PA needs longer to close when mp3-file from archive is opened:
Normally PA closes in about 0.2 seconds I would say. With a file still playing in WMP from that archive it takes PA about 3 to 5 seconds to close.
I forgot to mention that I’m using PA 2018 18.02.02 on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit if that helps.
I just thought that maybe there is something that can be done on PAs side to this “problem”.
did you trying using right click on file and then view? Lets see if that changes anything.
But as I said, it is because it is waiting for the file to be released so it can be checked if it is was updated.
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@spwolf Doesn’t make a difference when use the view option.
