Sooooo........ is there any special way to uninstall and reinstall this. I've tried the procedures on the corel website and no progress.
secondly, this is what i get when i try to open the document that crashed out on me.
PS: Isn't it a shame the MS didn't put the $500M spent on DRM on dealing with Windows issues!
This is absolutely out of hand. I have done everything. The program works fine for a day restart the computer a couple of times and then is starts to stall at random wierd times. Then crash!!!!! I try to save the document and it crashes right in the middle and won't let me reopen the file.
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am going insane. I just lost another weeks of work. I keep saving like a good boy should, then it crashes out and won't let me re-open the file. I now have eight versions of the same file and I'm further from being done. This can't be Only Vista.
I am at my wits end. Two weeks of troubleshooting and no progress. I quit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
back to Adobe, what a waste of money this was!
If you don't mind, could you attach the cdr file you can't open? (If it's too big, or it's confidential, let me know)
I thought you had an issue loading the software... does this mean you have got past that? And now have the service packs loaded? What was the thing that go you to that point?
Like Hendrik says post the file for comment. Maybe you are using a feature that few use. There are some things I'm critical about but stability isn't one.
Stability is so often a function of memory. I had to slow the ram down in the bios to make this system stable. 6 months later a ram module failed. What sort of weirdo underclocks their PC? I don't run for more than an hour without a saveAs. But I haven't had a crash that I can attribute to Draw since SP1.
Have you done the F8 thing on startup to rebuild the workspace?
Yani, I never had a problem uploading the software, my problem has always been crashing on saving a document.
Okay, sooooo..... I have overhauled the computer again.
What I have found is.......
1. that the auto backup feature is what is crashing me most of the time. It is the interfacing of CDX4 and Vista upon making a temp file to restore the backup.
2. the regular save function is stalling me out about 20% of the time.
3. when this happens, it corrupts the file beyond recovery.
When I designate a different folder on my hard drive for the autobackup it has a better success rate, about 80%. Vista still doesn't like the temp file CDX4 creates to restore it.
My other problem is that when I Save, not Save As, CDX4 changes my default auto backup save directory to the original temp folder, in turn crashing my document again. For some reason CDX4 won't hold the settings I designate, after I save each time.
I have had two different professionals work on my computer, and both threw their hands up. I just found these quirks this morning. I am beyond despair, I am in the tenth ring of HELL.
I am too far in to start over in Illustrator. So I have to trudge on.
Does anyone have any input?
GERARD, please help me. I know I have ranted like a lunatic, but I've never had issues like these. I know its not all CDX4 problems. I just need to know how to fix this. If I have to go back to XP so be it.