Hello; I'm not having that kind of a problem!!! Can you post a small file so we can see if it will open for us?
George
OK Thanks!
I have attached one file here.
Sorry, but I think that file has lost something since it was created. Every byte is zero, which means there's no possibility that anybody can open it and find any content there, no matter what version of CorelDraw they have.
Harry is right there. The file is corrupt.
You wouldn't be able to get anything out of it even trying with an older version
Ok. Thanks for checking the file for me. In this case I have about 20 files that all have the same problem. I have no clue what has happened. All I have done a couple of times ( with different versions of CD) is to open them but it never worked. The version of CD I used back then may have caused this problem somehow.
It looks more as if the computer has crashed and corrupted the drive, causing a mismatch between the file headers and the file data.
If the files are still on the original drive, a good file recovery program may be able to analyse the drive and recover some of the files.
Something IS there, just not able to open or import:
All of that information is created by windows from the 4 characters ".cdr" of the filename. It does not come from the file itself. But if you open the file with a hex editor, you will see that the file contains only 26Kb of zeros :
and it carries on like that, right up to the end of the file ... as distinct from a real CDR file, which contains useful information in those leading bytes:
A recent CDR file will begin with PK. An older file will begin with RIFF.