While testing PA 9.11.01 to see if the problem I reported with long preparation time, I noticed another problem. In my test archive, I have lots of files/folders with very long path names.
Near the end of the extraction (after right-click and Extract Here in Explorer), I got the following message:
Error creating destination file "Extracting:
G:\Essential_Software_Main_CD\Offline_Explorer_Set tings\download\
http://www.techsmith.com\products\st...showmenu=About TechSmith;image=\images\menu\aboutoff_2.gif;overim age=\images\menu\Descr.WD3".
Check that file is not in use.
When you click OK, all files afterwards are not extracted.
When I checked this file in Explorer, it had actually been extracted, but some of the folders in the same folder as Descr.WD3 had not been extracted. Several problems here:
1) The error message refers to the file that was last extracted, instead of the file/folder that could not be extracted.
2) PA is still not supporting the maximum number of characters. I know this because WinZip successfully extracted some files/folders that PA could not. WinZip still did have some problems though (eg. it could not extract the following path (253 chars) "G:\Essential_Software_Main_CD\Offline_Explorer_Se ttings\download\
http://www.techsmith.com\products\st...showmenu=About TechSmith;image=\images\menu\aboutoff_2.gif;overim age=\images\menu\showmenu=Products;image=\images\m enu\tabs_ad_2.gif;overimage=.").
3) PA stops extraction immediately. WinZip asks "Would you like WinZip to try to continue with the next file?" with a yes or no. Can you make PA do this. I'd also like a "Yes to All" button, which WinZip does not have.
Also, at the end of the extraction, WinZip then tells you there were problems with the extraction, Do you want to see the report ?
Can you also make PA do this as well.
Let me know if you need any more info.