ok, finally went to install and update X6 via the internet. what a drag/problem I knew this would be... so here goes.
Installed the intial X6 fine, got email for 90 days tech support etc..I guess it activated and sent serial to my account/corel. ..went to update to 6.1...seemed to install fine... seemed to see something about getting a STANDARD membership. So figured..ok...going great... well.... went to install 6.2 and the problem started.
now it says I don't have a level of membership or something? cannot install 6.2 or the hotfix after.
I will contact customer support when I get a moment, but wondering if anybody knows why this is happening. such a drag jumping through hoops just to UPDATE my software. I don't care about the extra MEMBER features...I want the FIXES...which should install if member status is FINE or NOT FINE.
I might just stick with X5 as it is working fine...i.e. doesn't BOMB when UPDATING TEXT of prior version files, new way of powerclip annoyance etc.
Like Stefan says, check your Corel account and see what serial number has been activated for X6.Chances are that you have used the wrong password or something when trying to activate X6.2, and therefore Corel doesn't recognize you.
Hmmm, How can I fix this?
Not knowing how Corel's new Membership thing worked, I installed CorelDraw X6 on my system at work using the boxed version our company bought. When I signed in I used my personal email address because I didn't want my Corel email blocked by the company spam filter (which sometimes happens).
Afterward, I bought CorelDraw X6 for use at home, and I used my personal email again.
What I would like to do is have the work installation refer to my work email address. How do I change the default email address related to the copy I have on my work system? Or does it even matter?
Thanks
Stefan Lindblad said:Its still holiday season for Corel in Canada
That's not fair. The customer service MUST work in shifts, 24 hours a day, every day of the year, whether holidays or not.
At least, in Brazil, that's how big companies who have respect for their users work.
Canada is really a first world country?
Hello Silvio; Canada and the US and some other countries take some of the Holidays off, Now the US takes more Holidays than any of them I guess, you can't even mail a letter on the days some people were born/died. It does give the working people something to look forward to. ( To me every day is a holiday But one thing that I don't understand is How can people post here and not be able to get the updates because of no internet? I think I would down load the update to a thumb drive or DVD using my account with Corel and load it on the computer Corel is on and run the update.
My Thoughts George
TheSign Guy said:But one thing that I don't understand is How can people post here and not be able to get the updates because of no internet? I think I would down load the update to a thumb drive or DVD using my account with Corel and load it on the computer Corel is on and run the update.
When I learnet that people in the USA still use Phone modem for their internet I was surprised. I am not surprised anymore people not able to download ;-)
But I believe Gérard at Corel wrote an explanation for these particular situations. But he and Corel is back in business in january I believe.
Silvio, SWEDEN is slowing down business quite a lot for many companies, so called "industrial vacation" in july. And second half of june and first half of august its really slow. Its the summer.
Hello Stefan; Yea there are a lot of people that use dial up for the net in the USA. Here at the sign shop we got WiFi a year ago, and had DSL for about 5 years before that, so up to 6 years ago we had to use a dial up modem. ( And we are in a city.) With so many homes ( In the billions ) it takes time to get around to everyone ( The phone co. gets holidays to ) but even with dial up you could still get the net, it's just a lot slower, and with dial up you still have to pay a fee for the URL service. It is easy to forget the hours of time it took to down load a small file much less a big file, and you can't use the phone to talk on when you are using dial up. ( I don't have a cell phone my self, no body want's to talk to me anyway
George
TheSign Guy said: Hello Stefan; Yea there are a lot of people that use dial up for the net in the USA. Here at the sign shop we got WiFi a year ago, and had DSL for about 5 years before that, so up to 6 years ago we had to use a dial up modem. ( And we are in a city.) With so many homes ( In the billions ) it takes time to get around to everyone ( The phone co. gets holidays to ) but even with dial up you could still get the net, it's just a lot slower, and with dial up you still have to pay a fee for the URL service. It is easy to forget the hours of time it took to down load a small file much less a big file, and you can't use the phone to talk on when you are using dial up. ( I don't have a cell phone my self, no body want's to talk to me anyway George
I believe it was 10+ years ago or so, when the politicians in my town (the liberals as you would call them) , Stockholm, SWEDEN who quite pragmatically said private businesses wont be able to build all the infrastructure to all and everyone in the time frame/speed businesses and people need it. It would take to many and looong years. So they made a decision to help out an dstarted to build the infrastructure so that ALL companies could offer and compete with the services and prices, instead of at the time just a few private companies who basically owned the market. And they understood that a high tech country like sweden needs hightech solutions and speed of internet.
Its in Sweden for example SKYPE comes from, sold to ebay and later microsoft.
I totally understand you can only build so much, sometimes though its great when the politicians and municipalities and private enterprices work together. The politicians and the state do not run internet, they just helped speeding up the building of the infrastructure. Its now all runned by private business. We would have not had so great internet if it wasnt for that decision, or part of it anyway,
I still have a phone modem but in a plastic grocery bag with some cables, ready for the museum I guess :-)
When I go for coffee outside at cafés and on work trip, I use my smartphone wifi/3G as a antenna.