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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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    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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    • Brian GregoryB
      Brian Gregory Alpha Testers
      last edited by

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

        Is anybody at ConeXware reading this?

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        • spwolfS
          spwolf conexware @Brian Gregory
          last edited by

          @brian-gregory said in PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files:

          @brian-gregory Is anybody at ConeXware reading this?

          Yeah, thank you. @Mili will test with latest internal release and let you know.

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            Mili conexware
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            @brian-gregory

            Hey Brian,

            Thanks for the details! I’ve tested and confirmed that the UAC and error reporting occurs when testing from the main PowerArchiver interface, when testing through shell it seems fine.

            Logged in for fixing, many thanks again!

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

              @mili @spwolf Thanks.

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              • Brian GregoryB
                Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @Mili
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                @mili Not fixed in PA 22.00.06.

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

                  @mili said in PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files:

                  @brian-gregory

                  Hey Brian,

                  Thanks for the details! I’ve tested and confirmed that the UAC and error reporting occurs when testing from the main PowerArchiver interface, when testing through shell it seems fine.

                  Logged in for fixing, many thanks again!

                  Testing with the shell with 22.00.08 is a disaster.
                  All the files get extracted to the current directory as if you had chosen extract here.
                  Took me ages to clean up the mess, work out what was supposed to be where.

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                  • PA_FanP
                    PA_Fan @Brian Gregory
                    last edited by

                    @brian-gregory I’m seeing this with .pa test from Shell on 22.00.06. The archive tests OK, but every file in it has been extracted to the same folder as the archive.

                    There seems to be no way from any settings or configuration to change this.

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

                      @brian-gregory said in PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files:

                      Testing with the shell with 22.00.08 is a disaster.
                      All the files get extracted to the current directory as if you had chosen extract here.
                      Took me ages to clean up the mess, work out what was supposed to be where.

                      @Mili @spwolf Is this logged in too?

                      How about releasing the first new fix this year?

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                        Mili conexware @Brian Gregory
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                        hey @brian-gregory,

                        I’ve attempted to reproduce this with a sample archive but did not get the extraction of files to folder. Tried testing via shell and main PA.

                        Does it happen to all archives or certain ones?

                        Could you please send a sample archive where you can reproduce to me at support at conexware dot com and I will take a look to reproduce it. Certainly would like to fix it for the next update.

                        Thanks for your help!

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                        • Brian GregoryB
                          Brian Gregory Alpha Testers @Mili
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                          @mili said in PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files:

                          hey @brian-gregory,
                          I’ve attempted to reproduce this with a sample archive but did not get the extraction of files to folder. Tried testing via shell and main PA.
                          Does it happen to all archives or certain ones?

                          All .PA archives I think.

                          Could you please send a sample archive where you can reproduce to me at support at conexware dot com and I will take a look to reproduce it. Certainly would like to fix it for the next update.

                          Example Archive linked here
                          My PA settings linked here

                          Right-click the PA file and choose “PowerArchiver” then on sub menu choose “Test”.
                          The PA archive gets extracted to the directory containing it.
                          I am running PA 22.00.08 on Windows 7 64 bit.

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                            Mili conexware @Brian Gregory
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                            thanks very much @brian-gregory

                            I see now, it occurs when testing 7z and PA archives via shell.
                            Logged in and Ivan should fix it for the future update.

                            thanks for your continued help!

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