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[godlydevils]

Re: Using the Queue Feature affects Compression Ratio negatively

I’m sorry if the dev team is affected by pandemic, and if anyways that is affecting their quality to provide quality software.

But honestly, it’s been an year I have been complaining about the queue feature, it is taking them ages to fix.

referencing the above bug, I have been waiting patiently, but the bug isn’t fixed at all.

The old queuing bug where PA gets stuck randomly, isn’t fixed either.

The Bug where you keep 10-15 files in queue at once, will cause the software to miss few in queue.

and sometimes it would compress into a corrupt archive, so you have to manually open each archive and make sure everything is there as expected.

There’s way too many bugs, and I see none getting fixed.

I’m disappointed with this software.

I should have sticked to 7zip or given a shot to other archivers than this, at least they don’t provide update once in 4 months and fix nothing.

[spwolf]

@godlydevils

Hi,

thank you for the report. We (@Mili ) will investigate queue and PA format a bit better, I saw it mentioned in our issue reporting system. In this case, it seems all the options might not be passed to the queue as supposed to when you create file directly. Are the files the same if you do not change the dictionary size?

When it comes to 7z and other software, what kind of compression are you getting on the same file? Is there a difference?

thank you!

[godlydevils]

@spwolf

Honestly,

There’s not even a single guide to using this software, it’s just that if you know what you are doing you are at your own’s mercy.

I tried changing lots of options, including changing dictionary size to 128 MB.
keep PNG filter to reflate*7, and no filter for PNG files.
keep x64+deltab for exe and no filter

Everything has same result, Using queue will make the files large

There’s another issue.

I tried to avert the queue feature.(Instead start all compression at once)

Make some 10 folders, with 10-15 files in each, small PNG, JPG, or anything u want. make total size somewhere 50 MB of each folder.

then keep all the folders in compression individually, and run all of them at once.

out of 10, the very first process will complete normally, rest all will have following resuults:

1. either complete with no errors but the .pa archive will be corrupt with some 20-40% of total file’s size or empty.
2. will give disk full error after some 10-15 secs
3. if the first one completed while you tried to put up another one for archiving, it will go on as it should, but the rest process will have corrupt results.

Also, when I try to change directory from the selection tab, without using browse feature, to create folders.

The PA process runs, asks for admin rights, I give it, it creates folder if it does not exist, then it will give disk full error, and delete the empty folder, no compression is done.

[godlydevils]

Coming back after exact 30 days, there’s no update for the software.

Now the windows 11 is coming, so there will be huge delay due to migrating and making the code work with new OS.

I don’t expect the very features that I need to work to be fixed in this year’s patches.

[spwolf]

@godlydevils said in Bug not fixed in new version:

@spwolf

Honestly,

There’s not even a single guide to using this software, it’s just that if you know what you are doing you are at your own’s mercy.

I tried changing lots of options, including changing dictionary size to 128 MB.
keep PNG filter to reflate*7, and no filter for PNG files.
keep x64+deltab for exe and no filter

Everything has same result, Using queue will make the files large

There’s another issue.

I tried to avert the queue feature.(Instead start all compression at once)

Make some 10 folders, with 10-15 files in each, small PNG, JPG, or anything u want. make total size somewhere 50 MB of each folder.

then keep all the folders in compression individually, and run all of them at once.

out of 10, the very first process will complete normally, rest all will have following resuults:

1. either complete with no errors but the .pa archive will be corrupt with some 20-40% of total file’s size or empty.
2. will give disk full error after some 10-15 secs
3. if the first one completed while you tried to put up another one for archiving, it will go on as it should, but the rest process will have corrupt results.

Also, when I try to change directory from the selection tab, without using browse feature, to create folders.

The PA process runs, asks for admin rights, I give it, it creates folder if it does not exist, then it will give disk full error, and delete the empty folder, no compression is done.

Please send us that archive compressed with .pa/normal and let us know what settings you used. Thanks.

[spwolf]

@godlydevils said in Bug not fixed in new version:

Coming back after exact 30 days, there’s no update for the software.

Now the windows 11 is coming, so there will be huge delay due to migrating and making the code work with new OS.

I don’t expect the very features that I need to work to be fixed in this year’s patches.

There will be no changes needed on our side for Windows 11.

On PA side, we are releasing minor version update in next 10 days and we have started working on PA 2022. Thanks!

[godlydevils]

@spwolf

I cannot make a lengthy video for variety of errors that I encounter.

However, this is persistent error, let’s start with this.

https://youtu.be/Ar7qDIKvAn4

and the file that was archived.

https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1NnQ2DVttFarYhQEszd9R__oD63nxr6ZT

[godlydevils]

@spwolf

I will be honest with you.

You release minor versions because you fixed bugs, optimized performance/code.
,
You release major version because you added new features, made overhaul to the software, and it’s competitively better than old major release.

However, all your releases had same bugs, same outcome, I hardly notice any difference between resulting compressed archives, there are no new algorithms, there’s no optimization or performance improvements, and no new features.

Many devs have made it a hobby to release new major versions to sell new software due to major upgrade.

also, don’t wish to go offtopic, but ConeXware’s Encryption suite has never been updated, it has same visual and operational bugs, yet you guys are selling it openly, without disclosing the fact that software is no longer supported.

I feel the same with this software.

P.S. commenting after 12 days, there’s no minor version update yet. as per your 10 days statement.