Ok, I've only invested 5 hours in the file, not like it's days and days, but what other of my files, in which far more hours are invested, might Coreldraw x6 also corrupt? How many drives do I need to add and how many times per minute do I need to save to protect myself against Coreldraw X6 malfunctions?
My #1 reason for upgrading to #6 was to say goodbye to x5's unexpected program crashes with my 64bit win 7 system. Compared to what I'm dealing with now, a little crash would be delightful.
Saved a large cdr file, got an i/o read error before save was completed. (No larger a file than I've saved with Corel x5 many, many times.) Now when I try to open the file I get error message, "i/o read error". 5 hours gone. Only fired up x6 a few days ago, hadn't yet given it instructions for auto saving.
I'm an old woman. I don't have 5-hr time blocks to donate to the Corel corporation. (Before you chalk my experience up to that of a old fool, I've been using Corel since 1992, purchasing nearly every upgrade since v 3.2 and have been using a pc 18 hrs a day since 1985. If I could have back all the time lost from Coreldraw program crashes I could add a year to my life.
For the curious, the big lost file was NOTHING except a bunch of jpg images. No fancy textures, layering or other effects, just plain old jpg images. If x6 can't swallow those, what's the point? My advice: Approach x6 with caution. Back up all your files a couple times, set it to save every 10 seconds and then MAYBE you're safe using the damn thing.
Oh yeah, and the clipboard interaction between coreldraw and corel photopaint is still screwed up.
ruckstande said:I still am not happy with X5 Sp3. I crash at least 3-4 times daily. It's unreal.
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Yea. I kinda got a good feel for it though. I'm careful about clipboard contents as this seems to make the program shaky. Also many effects and file size too. Plus X5 re-established my Ctrl-S nervous tick....
Hope X6 by the time of SP3, or even SP1?, will be rock solid!
~John
OS: Win 7 Professional with all updates current
System:Intel core i7-930 processor L2 cache 2.80GHz
Memory8 GB DDR3 sdram 1333MHz
Vid cardATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 GDDR5
HD750 GB serial ATA 2 HD 7200 RPM
File size: 341MBContent: 30-40 jpgs, each 500-650KB
Appreciate that you folks give a fig, admit to feeling like a man alone on an island when it comes to this stuff. In all these years with Corel have had zero contact with the company, not sure there's really anyone there, think maybe bots make the program :)
Yeah, was multi page doc, with 4 pages, 2 of which were empty, 2 holding about 30 jpgs each. The file is used to print jpgs gathered from other CDR files. Initially I just place them in stacks of 1 to 8, depending on how many related jpgs are part of a set, then later arrange them for printing.
Hi to you sign folks. My late step father was in sign business for 50 years.
Similar file just crashed. Fortunately am auto saving every 5 minutes so didn't lose anything this time. What was I doing prior to crash? slid 2 jpgs off one page and slid em onto another page in same doc.