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[Werve]

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.

[Mili]

Hi @werve

Thanks very much for the details!
We have logged the issue in and would like to as you to send us a sample file to support at conexware dot com which we will use for reference for further testing.

thanks again!

[Werve]

@mili Email sent. The test RAR file was created with a public dataset (silesia set https://mattmahoney.net/dc/silesia.html).

[Mili]

thanks very much for the file @werve !!

I’ve tested converting the archive and found that the test2 folder that is inside the archive is omitted when converting.
Also, PowerArchiver shows a CRC error when extracting the same archive.

In further testing, tried converting https://mattmahoney.net/dc/silesia.zip and that worked properly.

We have logged the issue in and will take a look to fix it.

Thanks again very much for your help!