Greetings to everyone.
Could someone help me how to fix a corrupted CDR file? I was working on a file of 159+ MB file when the power suddenly went off and I couldn't open the file when the power was back. I know the file could have been corrupted and I don't have a backup of the file also.
BTW, an interesting thing to note is that I tried to open the file is 7zip as if it were a zip file. To my surprise there was the file along with some xml files, but unfortunately I could not extract it as it showed up a message File is corrupt.
Many of you people would have come across a situation like this, could some one please help me out?
Thanks in advance,S. Sakthivel
If you are using windows 7 or later, you can try opening the folder in windows explorer, right click on the CDR, go to properties and then the previous versions tab. It may have kept an older version.
I can't remember if XP also kept previous versions and it also depends on your configuration, so it is not definite that you will have them.
Another, small, possibility is to look in the same folder and see if you have a file which begins backup_of_... and your filename. But this keeps only one previous copy so if you have saved the file more than once since Wednesday your backup will be too new.
And:
CDR Repair Kit. A must-have CorelDraw CDR repair tool for all categories of users seeking a reliable method of restoring their CorelDraw images after data corruption accidents of various types.
For more information: http://www.cdr.repair/
And here: http://www.filerepairforum.com/forum/cad-tools/cad-tools-aa/coreldraw/442-error-reading-problem-in-x3
I strongly suggest that people do not use repair tools like the above without a positive recommendation from an established member of the community.
I have no proof that the linked file is a trojan -- but it certainly could be.
It looks even more suspicious when a person seems to have joined solely to post a link to a web page -- and even more so when they try to make themselves look knowledgeable by quoting from another post but contributing nothing original -- and in this case without even reading it (the reference to "since Wednesday" has no relevance to the subject of the thread).
If anybody is considering trying the above file, I strongly suggest they do so either in a VM or a newly built copy of windows and no important programs or data on the machine, test the program with no access to the internet, and destroy the windows immediately after testing.