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.
Here's some advice, CorelDRAW is a race horse, feed it power and get rid of complicated configurations. I use it in 64 bit on Windows 7 with an SSD, 24 GIG of RAM and a 1 GIG video card. It is a rocket.
Thanks, milisock, was seeing upgrades in my future; you've given me some ideas as to where I need to be.
wait. you're running 24 GIG of ram?! holy cow
I think windows is the culprit -
windows 7 played nicely enough with corel x5, leastways corel didn't crash any more often than it did under Win xp. I should qualify that, though, to say that corel paint has previously been my bigger crashaholic.
One thing I do love about x6 is that it all looks the same, didn't have to spend a bunch of time fiddling with things, is just like x5. Love it when I can explore new features on MY timetable rather than having them force fed.