Hi all,
I was working on CD 2019 doc last weekend when my screen went black and stayed black. I waited, I hit ctrl-s to attempt to save my doc and used the power button to shut down with CD open. Yikes. I attributed this to a GPU driver failure and updated the driver and all is well on that front. However...when I opened CD again my workspace had changed to Touch from the previous setting of Default . I tried to reset CD back to the Default workspace but I no longer have that option. I repaired my installation and workspace options are as seen in the attached JPEG. CD 2019 on left and CD 2018 options on right. In addition my toolbox is now missing the star,complex star,basic shapes,arrow,flowchart,banner and callout tools.
Any thoughts on this? Thanks as usual!
I won't pretend to really know what happened here, but I'll share a little bit that I think I know about workspaces.
Your "user" workspaces are stored in .CDWS files in a CorelDRAW section of AppData/Roaming:
If you're not familiar with AppData\Roaming, you can read about it on the web. It is by default hidden in Windows. A quick way to get there is to type %AppData% into the address bar part of the file explorer (or whatever they call it these days). That will take you there without having to set Windows to show you hidden folders.
It might be worth looking there to see if those workspace files are present. If they are there, well, then perhaps one or more of them have become corrupted.
If you delete one of those "standard" .CDWS files from that folder while CorelDRAW is closed, then CorelDRAW should put a new, factory-fresh version of that workspace file there the next time that it is started.
A full uninstall/reinstall of CorelDRAW is always an option.
Thank you very much for taking the time out to respond. I had a look as you suggested and everything is there. I may go ahead and delete _default.cwds and see what happens on restart.
I called tech support and they offered to remotely dig through my machine but that gives me the heeby jeebies otherwise no suggestions on their end.
Just to insure I'm not losing my mind the menu I posted for 2019 should have an option for default workspace correct?...... or did that change in 2019 and I spaced on that fact?
Again........thanks.