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!
Yeah. I tried both. Default workspace option is not under Gear Icon menu either. I did delete the _default.cwds folder and it did replace itself but no Default workspace option in either menus and my tools are still missing.
If something else pops into your head let me know otherwise once again thanks.
The thought of tech support diddling in my machine remotely is not an option I want to entertain.
Eskimo said: and yes, some of the tools that you are looking for are not present in the Toolbox in that particular workspace.
This just registered with me lol! So the missing workspace is my big problem. Got it.
So, OK, the fresh workspace is there in the folder, but you don't see it in the menu or in the Workspaces dialog.
If I saw that, then I would be doing the full CorelDRAW uninstall/reinstall thing, and checking the "remove user files" option during the uninstall process.
If I had customized workspaces, then I would save those somewhere else first, in the hope of trying them out again later.
There may be some less-invasive surgical way to fix this, but the symptoms you describe aren't ones with which I'm familiar. Uninstall/reinstall, though, well, I'm familiar with that!
Wound up renaming the whole CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 folder in %AppData% as opposed to just deleting the _default.cdws entry in the Draw>Workspace folder and that worked. New folder created, default workspace is back, tools are back and in the right locations, seems to be working fine. Thanks for jumping in here on this one.
Perhaps there was something toxic in one or more of the workspace files that was preventing CorelDRAW from getting the information it needs to show in the menu and in the dialog.
Good idea on renaming the folder. To CorelDRAW, the content doesn't exist then. I have on occasion renamed my .GMS folder there to prove that no, a problem observed was not being caused by a VBA macro.
Thanks for sharing your approach to this and the good outcome.