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    PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files
    Brian GregoryB

    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.

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    Convert archive is incorrect for some WinRAR 5 archives
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    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.

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    Unsolved Error! PowerArchiver does not recognize file header! File extension not recognized! Error!

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    • KonglomatK
      Konglomat
      last edited by

      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!

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      • spwolfS
        spwolf conexware @Konglomat
        last edited by

        @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!

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        • KonglomatK
          Konglomat @spwolf
          last edited by

          @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 :)

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          • Brian GregoryB
            Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @Konglomat
            last edited by 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?

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            • spwolfS
              spwolf conexware @Brian Gregory
              last edited by

              @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?

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              • Brian GregoryB
                Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @spwolf
                last edited by 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

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