Ok, I've only invested 5 hours in the file, not like it's days and days, but what other of my files, in which far more hours are invested, might Coreldraw x6 also corrupt? How many drives do I need to add and how many times per minute do I need to save to protect myself against Coreldraw X6 malfunctions?
My #1 reason for upgrading to #6 was to say goodbye to x5's unexpected program crashes with my 64bit win 7 system. Compared to what I'm dealing with now, a little crash would be delightful.
Saved a large cdr file, got an i/o read error before save was completed. (No larger a file than I've saved with Corel x5 many, many times.) Now when I try to open the file I get error message, "i/o read error". 5 hours gone. Only fired up x6 a few days ago, hadn't yet given it instructions for auto saving.
I'm an old woman. I don't have 5-hr time blocks to donate to the Corel corporation. (Before you chalk my experience up to that of a old fool, I've been using Corel since 1992, purchasing nearly every upgrade since v 3.2 and have been using a pc 18 hrs a day since 1985. If I could have back all the time lost from Coreldraw program crashes I could add a year to my life.
For the curious, the big lost file was NOTHING except a bunch of jpg images. No fancy textures, layering or other effects, just plain old jpg images. If x6 can't swallow those, what's the point? My advice: Approach x6 with caution. Back up all your files a couple times, set it to save every 10 seconds and then MAYBE you're safe using the damn thing.
Oh yeah, and the clipboard interaction between coreldraw and corel photopaint is still screwed up.
1 hr in to rebuilding file a save again brought a disk error message. Tried saving it to 2 diff drives, same result. Closed Corel, tried to open file, get i/o read error. When uploading file here got a reset message, so I don't know if the upload worked.
Tried again to upload file, again got message, "Connection to server reset." Maybe too large. Is 341MB. Before beginning the rebuild I set Corel to do an auto save after 10 minutes, told it where to place it. Program didn't do the save.
Just out of curiosity, what are your system specs?
OS, System RAM (include speed), CPU, HDD make size and speed (e.g. 5400, 7200, 10 000rpm)
TIA (Thanks in advance)