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Clip art folders are empty

When I use fiel>search content>connect>content exchange>clipart the folders are empty. Very frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.

Well, I would like to comment about this. I'm old. I like to see all the clip art, because I am in the habit of taking parts from various pieces of clipart to make something new, so searching for keywords is useless for me. So, upon installing X8, I went to Connect to see what was new since X6.

And immediately wanted to shoot myself, or Corel's servers.

After spending over a week dealing with Connect, including multiple F8 restarts, I can tell you that Corel's servers are incapable of dealing with adequate provisions of ready access to their content.

I got multiple (and when I say multiple, I mean ENDLESS) messages like:

1. No content.
2. Listing 474 pieces of clip art, but unable to show me more than 50, or some other number.
3. When I could see clip art, I'd put some in the Tray, go to Draw X8 and then be unable to drag a piece of clip art from the tray into an open drawing (getting "not connected to the internet" bullshit error message) -- but when I'd go back to Connect and ask it to import that exact same piece of clip art into Draw, it would work fine (golly, my internet connection fixed itself miraculously). Of course, this slowed everything down for me, since the point of the tray is to make getting content easier.

My advice is to try to access content at night. It always worked better at night, which I presume is when less people are accessing Corel's servers.

Yes, I complained to tech support and have an open ticket, with no response. If Corel cannot provide ready access to their content, they should make it all available for download so we don't have to deal with this crap.

FYI, I have a Corel document with all of the new clip art after X6 in it. (Also have one from X5 to X6.) Happy to share. This means I never have to go back to Connect again, I hope.