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.
Does 6X use a lot more ram? Wondering if this is just resources. Have had 2 other corel docs open during all crashes; the other 2 docs also just a bunch of jpg files, also large, one of them 783MB. Virtual was at 8182, just bumped it to 12273. How much ram do i need for working with files of this size?
jccorel said: 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.
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.
That's just crazy. Coreldraw can only handle one function at a time. 2jpgs? What is this the future?
CorelDRAW 32 bits only can use up to 2 Gb max of RAM, but X6 64 bits under Windows 7 64 bits can use all the RAM available, it's supposed at least 4 or 8 Gb of RAM. 8 or 12 Gb of virtual memory for this system is too small, specially if you have other programs running
Lots of other programs running, always. Going to relocate the problem file to main hard drive from it's prior location on a mybook usb drive. Corel x5 didn't seem to have a problem with that but maybe x6 needs more leg room.
k, my theory is that x5 was constrained by itself to only sip but x6 knows how to gulp so for the first time my under-allocated virtual memory became a problem. Lame question: does it matter which drive has the virtual memory allocation? I don't think my Mybook drives have any, and that's where my cdr files are located.