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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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    TAR not archiving correctly?

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      dtjacobs
      last edited by

      I haven’t seen this problem before with PA. I’ve been able to TAR a few files here and there then I bzip2 or gzip them.

      But over the weekend, I went to do the same with one of my folders to back it up and when I opened up the TAR to delete a few files prior to running it through bzip2, there were corrupted files. Instead of seeing over 4000 files in the TAR, I saw only 37. Some of the names had 00002 or something similar tacked onto the end. I repeated this several times. I’ve tried it with ZIP format and it’s fine but the TAR format seems corrupted. The strange thing is that the TAR file size is about right. It’s just the contents that are messed up. And it’s independent of the computer. I’ve tried 3 different ones and they all end up with a similar corruption of the files within the TAR even though it looks like everything ran fine.

      Has this been noticed before? I did a search and didn’t find a similar problem.

      David

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        TBGBe
        last edited by

        Yes, there does appear to be a problem.

        Using the boost c++ library (www.boost.org) “boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2”
        from http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=738

        Extract to subdirectory and then use PA 9.21.00 and create TAR file.
        See attached screenshot of file listing.

        Note: Had to edit screenshot as allowed filesize is too small.
        attachment_p_3701_0_boosttar4.png

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          dtjacobs @TBGBe
          last edited by

          For now, it looks like if I have to TAR a lot of files/folders, I’ll have to use something else. For a couple of files then I can use PA.

          dtjacobs

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          • spwolfS
            spwolf conexware @dtjacobs
            last edited by

            thanks a lot, we will check it out!

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            • spwolfS
              spwolf conexware @spwolf
              last edited by

              Check this release out and see if it helps:
              http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/release/powarc925.exe

              This is 9.25 beta thats going to be published in a day or two.

              thanks,

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                dtjacobs @spwolf
                last edited by

                D/L’d it and will check it out tomorrow.

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                • spwolfS
                  spwolf conexware @dtjacobs
                  last edited by

                  any luck?

                  thanks,

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                  • TBGBeT
                    TBGBe @spwolf
                    last edited by

                    PA 9.25 - testing with boost files as before-
                    Compress either via shell extension or from within program (TAR, Store full path) still has the same problem :(

                    Edit, doing immediate “compress to Tar.Gzip” instead of TAR does NOT show the problem :confused:

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                      dtjacobs @TBGBe
                      last edited by

                      My test case has 304 folders and 2094 files, archiving to a TAR file (not compressing yet).

                      I simply archived to a Tar and it is not doing the same thing but it’s still not right. I am getting the correct file count but the files have like 0444 or 0000002 as part of the file name (at the end which is sometimes tacked onto the end of the filename sometimes replaces part of the end of the filename).

                      The folder structure seems ok. And the contents of the files look ok (they’re mostly text-based files). It’s just the file names that are corrupted. And it’s not all the files but just a few. And I cannot find a common link to the files.

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                        dtjacobs @dtjacobs
                        last edited by

                        Wasn’t sure if there has been any progress with this problem again.

                        Thanks,
                        David

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                        • TBGBeT
                          TBGBe @dtjacobs
                          last edited by

                          @dtjacobs:

                          Wasn’t sure if there has been any progress with this problem again.

                          Now have to wait for PA 9.5 … hopefully next month…

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                            TBGBe @TBGBe
                            last edited by

                            Just tidying up -
                            This is fixed in PA 9.5 (betas).

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