So I was in the middle of making a design and it was running slow, but that's to be expected with all the nodes and effects I was using with my set up. I was making a few changes as it was mostly done and then all of my Gaussian blur effects disappeared. I started to redo the effects thinking it was just a little glitch but it happened again and then I noticed that the Ggaussian blur effects were still there but it had copied the original object without the blur effect. But all of the gaussian blur effects were extremely difficult to interact with. They are very difficult to select to delete or move around.
I decided after a bunch of back and forth for like a half hour that I would just restart the program and reopen it to see it that would help with this issue. But now the file wont open. It doesnt say the file is corrupted but it's stuck with the processing bar fully green at the bottom of the UI and its not opening the file. The Back Up File acts in the same way and opening the file after a restart on two different computers and has the same results.
What's going on here? Do I have to start from scratch?
The file to which you linked crashes my CorelDRAW 2019, but opens all right in 2020, 2021, and 2023.
Here's a version saved in 2019 format from 2020: EC Sports Nissan NV 200 Wrap 2023 - save from 2020 to 2019.cdr.
If you'd like me to take down that link after you get the file, just let me know.
I got the same results as Eskimo, this was one of the reasons I never put 2019 on line
Thanks a lot! the original file crashes my Corel 2019 now as well, didn't do that before.. The new file appears to work. Thanks a lot! please take the link down, thanks again!
Thanks for the heads up! It has crashed on me a lot but mainly its because of a Macro we use. I don't think it used to crash nearly as much with the older versions of corel or the macro though. This is the first time I've had pseudo-corrupted files like this and we're about 6 months into using it. We never upgraded because of the Macro but the macro got a new version compatible with newer versions of corel so we started using 2019 cause my boss "upgraded" in 2019 until we realized that we couldn't use the macro anymore.
Mind if I ask why you never used it? Did you have similar issues?
EC Graphics said:This is the first time I've had pseudo-corrupted files like this and we're about 6 months into using it.
I have not personally had problems with corrupted files in CorelDRAW, but I have occasionally heard from other users who have.
Even if it happens very rarely, it's a nightmare for someone who works on very complicated projects where they have everything in one file, where one corrupt file could cost them multiple days worth of work.
For people who work that way, I recommend setting up something like FreeFileSync to create and maintain a "mirror with versions" of all of the folders they care about for a project, and then making it a point to run that job at sensible intervals when working on that project.
Every time the FreeFileSync job is run, the mirror is updated to match the working folders, and any updated or deleted files are saved with time stamps appended to the filenames. If disaster strikes in form of a high-value file getting corrupted, one can just look back through older versions to find a pre-corruption version of it.
Even in the absence of file corruption, that provides some ability to "turn back the clock", which can be the easiest way to fix some types of problems.