This is likely a Windose problem, and probably related to all the spyware and keyboard monitoring, etc., that seems endemic here (type a character and the HD lights up), but I thought I ought to throw it out there in case there's an easy fix.
Basically, about 2/3's of the time, when I run DRAW, I get these massive slowdowns. This an XP-Pro system with plenty of RAM, HD space, and a reasonably fast processor, and it happens at random, so I don't think it's a system problem per se. The worst aspect is the copy and paste function. Copying a single text line can tie the system up for 30secs or more, and paste is about three times as bad.
I used to have a dedicated back-up HD that had some kind of software running that seemed to be related to this, as when the local sysop removed it - since it turned out that it was not EVER actually backing up automatically, the problem got a lot more manageable. Of course, that left me without any backup except the company intranet, but that's a separate issue. Any ideas as to why a simple copy and paste would tie up DRAW? It doesn't happen - ever - if I use the CTRL D, instead of CTRL C/V, so it's strictly related to the Windose clip board. But, it ONLY happens with DRAW (X3)... Thanks for any help...
Hello Phil; The more Windows has to do the longer it takes. Sometimes it it could be how many fonts are in the Windows Font dir., it could be a lot of temp files, it could be something running in the back ground, it could be the hard drive needs to be defraged, you could have a ram chip going bad, it could be the video that's taking so long to redraw, it could be the hard drive is reaching over 80% of it's Cap., if you have a lot of bells & whistles on the desk top. You could tune up the computer by taking care of the things listed and that may speed you back up. ( And there maybe some other things I have forgot to mention.
George
This sounds like you have excessive color styles, see if Fosters blog helps. http://graphics-unleashed.unleash.com/2010/07/delete-extra-stuff-to-speed-up.html Also clean out you temp folder regularly, click, start > run then open %temp%
http://graphics-unleashed.unleash.com/2010/07/delete-extra-stuff-to-speed-up.html
Also clean out you temp folder regularly, click, start > run then open %temp%
That was a good link. We had this problem before and it turned out that our Taiwanese branch apparently was saving every single view, without realizing it, so every file used as a template - which was a large proportion of them - inherited tens of thousands of views. X3 cannot handle this, it appears, and will effectively lock-up - since it can't ever finish loading the tens of thousands of views, so it keeps reloading endlessly, making it impossible to do any work.. They were allegedly going to fix the problem - a year or so ago. But I have no direct communications channel, so since the problem appeared to be getting better, I forgot about it... However, just looked at a recent file, and the views are there - effectively an infinite number, as you can't ever even load the database, even though DRAW insists on trying. The logical thing to do would be to find the view files, whereever they are stored and delect them all, I suppose. So, that is apparently possible in X4+, but maybe not X3. Suggestions?
Well, I wasn't able to find the flies that I thought might be created for the View Manager, but I did manage to lock up the entire system, requiring a complete reboot. The Task Manager kept trying to shut down DRAW, which was locked into its endless loop of trying to load the tens of thousands of Views, and kept reinstating itself after every forced shutdown... I'm guessing that with X3 the Views are stored internal to the DRAW file. Maybe that changed in later versions??? So far, so bad. Xmas is coming! Gotta be an improvment. Bus was early, meaning I missed it and was late to work, after standing in the rain for 35 minutes. So, there has to be a way to massage the DRAW file to erase those pesky Views. Manually doesn't cut it. If you choose more than a handful of screens of Views, DRAW overflows and locks up, or slows down to taking several minutes to erase that block, which is one of several thousand such blocks of Views.Aha! But maybe I can copy the file, layer by layer or else DRAW will arbitrariy mix things up into crazy groups. And paste into a new, hand-dupllicated file! That might actually work, and only add several hundred hours to my task load! Time's a'wasting! Merry Xmas. Ho!
Was just trying to get something useful out off X3 Draw's help system regarding views and view manager. Here's a thought for an Xmas gift:
The soon-to-be-extinguished (for no particular good reason, other than that people will make money replacing it with CMS) site that I maintain - www.seco-larm.com - has, among other features, a keyword-based site search engine that is really nice. The only drawback is that the keywords have to entered by hand. The advantage is that not only is the js. engine SUPER fast, but it also can return hits on synonyms or related terms that don't show up anywhere on the actual web page! This is a HUGE improvment over Google's site search, which willy-nilly returns anything and only those things that exactly match the page content.So, a project suggests itself. Could we, the COREL users, create or maintain a similar knowledge base that goes beyond the nonsense in the DRAW help files, as in - no returns for "manager," much less "View Manager?" The search engine on the site mentioned above is freeware, based on a JavaScript Source file whose only requirement is that you include a pointer to them in the interface. If necessary, the help site could be isolated from COREL inc. if someone was willing and able to host it.