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[Konglomat]

Dear PowerArchiver Team!
As I unfortunately found out, there is a big bug in Powerarchiver, which causes the compression rate to drop really significantly! I wonder if no one has noticed this yet? Are you guys still actively developing?
The following error occurs! (This is already as I find a blatant error!).

ERROR:

• File extensions and formats are not recognized automatically!
• If a file name e.g. Mütze.jpg is simply “renamed” in Mütze.txt, or
  Mütze.png, Mütze.mp3, Mütze.pdf etc. each time a DIFFERENT compression algorithm is performed on the SAME FILE! Remember! The file extension was only renamed, so the file extension e.g. from .jpg to .txt is only by Rename changed! Just take a .jpg or .txt or .pdf file and change the file extension, you will see see this error! No headers are read automatically! Is this really wanted?Then the perfect compression algorithm can never be found and optimized by PowerArchiver? You should investigate this dramatic error once absolutely!

Greetings from your trusty Konglomat!

Please stay healthy and make PowerArchiver more powerful than ever! I am looking forward to future updates! You are still awesome! Please keep up the good work! I love PowerArchiver, really more than just about anything!And will probably buy and use it for eternity!

[spwolf]

@konglomat this is done on purpose because analyzing each file takes very long time and is not practical in real life.

we could expose extensions we use for different codecs in the future, if that makes sense and is requested.

thanks!

[Konglomat]

@spwolf said in Error! PowerArchiver does not recognize file header! File extension not recognized! Error!:

this is done on purpose because analyzing each file takes very long time and is not practical in real life.
we could expose extensions we use for different codecs in the future, if that makes sense and is requested.
thanks!

Absolutely yes! From my side, this would be really very desired! Because this would interest me very much! I would find this extremely kind of them! And thank you for your answer :)

[Brian Gregory]

@spwolf I asked before if this could be configurable somehow. I’d like to be able to say in this particular directory treat .abc files like zip files.

Also why are you still not treating .apk files like zip files?

[spwolf]

@brian-gregory said in Error! PowerArchiver does not recognize file header! File extension not recognized! Error!:

@spwolf I asked before if this could be configurable somehow. I’d like to be able to say in this particular directory treat .abc files like zip files.

Also why are you still not treating .apk files like zip files?

I am thinking for starts, we can make it selectable in config, like we do in editors, with easy way to revert to defaults?

[Brian Gregory]

@spwolf Yes. Maybe the first step would just be that you could fill in something like:
.apk=.zip .info=.txt
in the configuration to say .apk files are always to be treated like .zip files and .info are always to be treated like .txt.
Also either
=.zip
or maybe
.=.zip
would mean files with no extension are to be treated like .zip.

It would be nice to be able to configure this on a directory by directory basis but I can’t really see a good way to do that without it also making things rather complicated.

The best I can come up with would be to say that you could store the configuration in a file in the directory with a special name and PA would know not to store that special named file and would instead use it to adjust the configuration. Something like .PAConfiguration