Recently had problematic re-install of both X3 and X5. Finally succeeded in sequential numeric order (i.e. first X3 and then X5). However now, CONNECT X5 no longer displays CDR vector file thumbnails. Currently CDRs are associated with X3. Is that the possible cause? What else might be contributing to this problem?
Thanks for any and all ideas!
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Put the X5 DVD in the drive and when the install menu appears, choose Repair. This will fix your file associations and perhaps even restore the thumbnail preview (that may be casued by the Corel Windows Shell extension.)
Hi Hugh!
V-wha-lah! Say Magnifiqué!!! THANK YOU! You make it look easy, Sir! Thumbnails are restored!
Have a great 2011!
The Professor said: What is wrong with Connect? I just cannot get it to display CDR Thumbnails - only the generic Corel Icon. It displays jpg files thumbnails fine. Yes, I've tried to repair the installation (as suggested above) and no it didn't work for me, as indeed it hasn't for others in this tread. Yes, I've tried the folder view option, as suggested, but no luck there either. The Connect application is a flagship upgrade to the CorelDRAW suit, but it seems it's broken. My version of the X5 suit is fully patched, as is my Windows 7 installation, yet Connect isn't working properly - and as an earlier poster said, without proper thumbnails it's rendered virtually useless. Come on Corel, please tell me how to fix this bug, or at least tell me what I'm doing wrong. The Professor.
What is wrong with Connect? I just cannot get it to display CDR Thumbnails - only the generic Corel Icon. It displays jpg files thumbnails fine.
Yes, I've tried to repair the installation (as suggested above) and no it didn't work for me, as indeed it hasn't for others in this tread. Yes, I've tried the folder view option, as suggested, but no luck there either.
The Connect application is a flagship upgrade to the CorelDRAW suit, but it seems it's broken. My version of the X5 suit is fully patched, as is my Windows 7 installation, yet Connect isn't working properly - and as an earlier poster said, without proper thumbnails it's rendered virtually useless. Come on Corel, please tell me how to fix this bug, or at least tell me what I'm doing wrong.
The Professor.
On your Win 7 machine, click on Start->Control Panel, then in that window, click on "Programs and Features". That should bring in the "Uninstall or Change a Program" function. Look down the list and see if "Corel Graphics - Windows Shell Extension" is installed. IF it is not, then you have to install it from the CGS DVD. It is necessary to see the thumbnails in Connect.
The other item that is necessary, is for Windows Explorer to have the appropriate applications associated with the file name extensions. The Repair function of the installation should take care of associating the file extensions with Corel applications. If it did not, then you have a permissions problem that the Installation/Repair functions should be run as Administrator.
Hugh,
Many thanks for your helpful reply - you were spot on about the Windows Shell Extension, installing it solved the problem, so well done.
However, this does beg the obvious question: why, if I'd opted to install Connect, did the installation program allow me to de-select Windows Shell Extension - it should have immediately flagged up a warning, telling me that if I chose not to install it, Connect won't work properly. Better still the installation program should auto selcted shell extension and then grey it out, if Connect is to be installed. It would have saved me (and probably many other users) a lot of trouble.
Anyway, thanks again for your help.
The Professor said: Hugh, Many thanks for your helpful reply - you were spot on about the Windows Shell Extension, installing it solved the problem, so well done. However, this does beg the obvious question: why, if I'd opted to install Connect, did the installation program allow me to de-select Windows Shell Extension - it should have immediately flagged up a warning, telling me that if I chose not to install it, Connect won't work properly. Better still the installation program should auto selcted shell extension and then grey it out, if Connect is to be installed. It would have saved me (and probably many other users) a lot of trouble. Anyway, thanks again for your help.
If you performed a standard, recommended installation, the Shell Extension should have been installed, automatically. If you performed a selected install, choosing the components that you want installed, you may have not selected the Shell Extension for installation. I admit, on a selected component install, that there is no implied or actual explanation for installing the Shell Extension.
Any way, I am glad that you are up and running.
Yes I did a custom install. I'm pretty sure I manually de-selected the Shell Extension. I don't like software clutter or programs running in the background, clogging the system up and slowing things down - unless they're essential. When I de-slected the shell extension - the Corel install program should immediately have flagged this up.
Anyway, all's well that ends well - so they say.
In my previous post, I said that, "all's well that ends well". Well, I hesitate to say it, but I'm not sure it has ended yet.
Although Connect is now displaying CDR and CPT files properly (great!) it isn't displaying Thumbnails for WMF files - is it supposed to? All I'm getting it the generic icon.
Tnanks.
The Professor said: In my previous post, I said that, "all's well that ends well". Well, I hesitate to say it, but I'm not sure it has ended yet. Although Connect is now displaying CDR and CPT files properly (great!) it isn't displaying Thumbnails for WMF files - is it supposed to? All I'm getting it the generic icon. Tnanks.
The shell extension is just that, an extension to the Windows Shell file handling. The Corel Shell Extension only adds the CDR and CPT to the thumbnail image handling of Windows.
Using Windows own Explorer, and setting the view to Medium Icons or better, then you can see the Windows Metafile Format images....(It is a Windows "thing".)
The Professor said: it isn't displaying Thumbnails for WMF files
I recently moved from XP 32bit to Win7 Pro 64bit, so I too am looking for a solution.Seeing connect uses windows explorer for viewing as suchThis is a windows thing.It appears they (Microsoft) removed support for security reasonshttp://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/wmf-in-windows-explorer-not-shown-as-thumbnails/3f2beb84-54a2-4aa8-9689-b5addb3af237But this may help --> http://code.google.com/p/emfplugin/
I will be trying it in the next few days.
Stephen said: it isn't displaying Thumbnails for WMF files I recently moved from XP 32bit to Win7 Pro 64bit, so I too am looking for a solution.Seeing connect uses windows explorer for viewing as suchThis is a windows thing.It appears they (Microsoft) removed support for security reasonshttp://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/wmf-in-windows-explorer-not-shown-as-thumbnails/3f2beb84-54a2-4aa8-9689-b5addb3af237But this may help --> http://code.google.com/p/emfplugin/ I will be trying it in the next few days. [/quote] OK, I have tried the emfplugin.... 32bit version works, 64bit does not.
it isn't displaying Thumbnails for WMF files
OK, I have tried the emfplugin.... 32bit version works, 64bit does not.
Works on my system. Have you used Explorer to see if they show up there?
Steve E.
Update: 64bit version now working.
All good, it shows in windows explorer, but not in Corel Connect.