I've put messages on about this before and not got anywhere. Basically, this is becoming a major issue now and I wanted to demonstrate how bad this is. These crashes can occur at any time, sometimes when moving items, often when adjusting text, sometimes when I just move the mouse across the screen.
I'm not even a designer, i'm in charge of print production so 95% of the time all I am doing is opening a file and making a minor correction to files or correcting a spelling error. Here is a screenshot taken from a program called AppCrashView which shows my CorelDraw crashes for the last 6 weeks.
http://www.dspad.co.uk/myerrors.jpg
The first crash today happened when I ungrouped a simple logo (the LinkedIn logo as it happens), and the second was when I tried to change the colour of a single line of artistic text.
i've also checked the log on the computer of one of our designers. You can't help but feel sorry for him:
http://www.dspad.co.uk/designererrors.jpg
This sort of thing costs a great deal of time and money, especially as the auto-backup system is erratic at best. Could someone explain to me how people are meant to work with this sort of thing happening.
Thanks again for the replies. I managed to get that file to work as well, after the two crashes, it worked fine on the third attempt. This is why the crashes are so frustrating, because there is no consistency at all. A file that worked perfectly one day, will crash the next day. A tool that worked fine one minute, will cause a crash when using it the next. You can see from the error log how many different modules are throwing up the errors.
CorelDraw is completely up to date, and the problems are on several different machines with different graphics cards (all with drivers kept fully up to date.) When we got the new PCs they were all completely clean (we installed Windows 7 64-bit and all software ourselves.) There is various software running, but the only thing on all systems is Avast anti-virus. Microsoft Outlook is running more often than not as well.
I've attached my DxDiag info in case this helps at all.