Hi,
can please somebody confirm this effect in Corel 2019.
a) Open and edit some Corel file that loads and saves slow (e.g. something with large and many bitmaps)
b) Save your file in the background. Corel Shows the save icon in the toolbar.
c) While Corel saves in the background continue editing (the save incon is shown in the toolbar). I just added some rectangles.
d) Corel completes background saving but the document status doesn't become "dirty". Corel doesn't know the document is changed - no asterix behind the filename - save menu grayed.
If you now close Corel it will not remind you to save your last edits. Everything you have edited while Coreldraw was saving will be forgotten.
Workaround: Edit something after Corel has finished saving in the background. This will make the file "dirty" and the Save option will be available again.
I think Corel has to set the document "dirty" after background saving if editing took place while saving.
What do you see and think?
I have been using CorelDRAW since version 3 and I have never used auto backup or background saving. Like font embedding, it just never made sense that it could ever work 100%, I work and CTRL S and rub my eyes, drink some coffee and take a short break. I then resume when the file is done saving. I cannot remember when I lost a CorelDRAW file or opened a CorelDRAW file that had lost my edits.
There's a lot of crap said, I did not have sex with that woman, EPS will solve our problems, color management makes everything look on the display exactly as it will print.
The computer is an moderately unstable machine, we have the brains. Computers change from day to day I suggest a work process that circumvents their shortcomings.
David Milisock said:I have been using CorelDRAW since version 3 and I have never used auto backup or background saving.
I know that's your personal opinion, and here's mine:
At least use the Auto Backup feature. I've NEVER had a problem with it and it's SAVED me a few times for whatever reason.
If you don't, at least use some sort of other backup option... i.e. daily, hourly every 15 min, whatever.
I use a backup process that keeps multiple versions of files and runs twice a day at scheduled times backing up files that have been edited since the last backup.
I recently had a drive failure and I had as many as 11 versions of my files all sorted by datel
The reason that I do not use auto backup and auto save is that the processes can activate in the middle of an edit and as you've see fail to save. Same with auto backup.
The worst of it is that the process can un known to the user activate at moments of extreme system stress and the additional process can cause a failure or a corruption of the CorelDRAW file.
I've seen it happen and in reality background processes (non Corel or Corel) in many cases are the causes of failures.
Like I said the computer is just the machine, we 're the brains.