can ANYONE help or relate? I use corel x6 64 bit with windows 7 pro. comp is alienware aurora r4 intel i7-3820 3.60GHz, 16 gb ram... so power should not be an issue here. problem is... corel draw crashes A LOT. I lose HOURS of work at times because the file becomes corrupt. it has NOT saved even though I am manually saving. it has not backed-up files even though set for every 10 minutes. I have worked for hours on designs, saving occasionally, and it backing up every 10 minutes, then when it finally crashes... NOTHING was saved since where I was with the file HOURS before. back-up did nothing, and saving manually was doing nothing. reboot, redo all my work. YAY!
Next... CorelDraw x6 crashes A LOT(in case ya didn't catch that the first time). sometimes WHILE saving, crashes, corrupting file, more lost work, time, and hair! corel will crash while drawing a simple line. it will crash on yours and it will crash on mine. whether 20 pages or just one, one more click and it is done. corrupt files left and right, start again...work all night. insanity is close...its on its way. is it just one more click, or maybe one more day. have no pattern to where it goes wrong, its just been happening for way too long. just when you think the job is done, ya click to save, back to step one.
if anyone else has advice or actually admits they have this problem, has a solution, knows a guy that might know a guy that might know whats wrong, or has legal advice for my insanity plea, please let me know. please don't just say update to x7. if corel will admit there was a problem, and say it was fixed for 7, then it would be a start. so far, "it just me". thanks!
guess I will redo my lost work in the morning!
Hello D cubed; I used X6 for over two years, With out a saving problem that I had not caused myself. With the computer you have I would not think it is a hardware problem. Maybe the way you have things setup? Try cleaning out the Temp files, ( if you need help with that just say so.) Look at what's running in Windows at start up, and see if there's things that you don't need or want. Look at the fonts that you have loaded to see how many are in the Windows/Fonts dir. you may want to move some and use Font Nav. that comes with the X6 package. What I do is as soon as I've drawn the first line I save the file to a TEMP dir. giving it a name and every 3 or 4 min. I press the Ctrl+S keys to save the file, and when I'm finished with the file I'll save it to where it's should be stored. then once a week I go to the TEMP dir. and delete all the drawings there IF I know they were saved in the right place. Don't forget to clean and defrag the hard Drives unless you have a SSD. I do use X7 most of the time now with no problems either.
Good Luck, George
George, how do you get any work done when you are always on here? I see your name all over the forum. ya seem to know quite a bit about corel and seem to have great luck with avoiding crashes. I do use ccleaner daily. I will say, I may have too many fonts loaded. so I will try to alleviate that issue today. what is driving me crazy, is how random the issues are, and how different they are. last nights crash for example, I had a file I was done working on... was doing final save. after I had initially saved, I had saved many times while working on it. so when it crashed... usually when I go to re-open, I will get a "corrupt file" message. this time, the file opened, but it is "untitled" and is blank. in the past, because its automatic, like breathing, I started thinking maybe it was me. maybe I wasn't manually saving. then I paid more attention to that, and I do save. whats crazier, I have had a file saved, worked on it for hours, while saving occasionally, back-up set for 10 minutes, and after the crash, the file was where it was when I originally started it that morning. no changes were saving, back-ups were not saving. I am also in the sign industry, and most of the work I deal with has architect drawings that were created in CAD, images, renderings etc. many times I need to open the arch drawings in illustrator and resave then open in corel because corel has issues opening, them... screws up gradients, stroke thicknesses, fonts, not to mention takes longer. Adobe was never an issue for me....EXCEPT its limited area size, and file sizes. corel has more user friendly features and works better for the sign industry in a way, but illustrator is way more reliable, better quality effects, and needs no back-up feature. Thanks George for advice. I will try the fonts, try the defrag(which I have tried in the past already), and try I new way of saving. my boss mentioned x7, which we usually always upgrade, but will that make a difference??? I wanna go back to windows xp and corel 12!!!
Hello D cubed; To try to HELP, and to answer your questions, I DON'T have to do MUCH work ( I owen part of the place.) but the computer I use is self built and I have a lot of things going on at the same time, like this forum is running almost all day. When I first started into the sign business I built a 8086, no hard drive but I did have two 5¼ flopy drives and a lot of money tied up in a new sign business. I bought a 20 meg hard drive and thought it was the best thing since toilet paper. Bought AutoCad and was drawing all over the screen, but it was tough learning and didn't have drivers to cut vinyl a lot of the signs I made out of vinyl were drawn on roll paper and layed on the vinyl and cut with a knife. I lucked out and got in touch with a man that had started CadLink ( now SignLab ) he wrote a driver for a Ioline plotter that would let me cut out of AutoCad. Using a Cad program is a tough thing to learn, MS came out with Windows and Corel was also born. I tried CorelDRAW and found out how much easier it was to use for drawing, I had to draw the sign in CorelDRAW and export it as a EPS file ( Corel's page size was 30"x 30" at the time so everything had to be sized in AutoCad. But It was hard for me to learn Corel teaching myself out of a book that came with it. ( There wasn't any internet, and no other sign co. able to cut anything other than letters, and I have never forgot what it's like to stay awake at night worrying about I was going to make a sign to feed my family. I will always try to help anyone ( If they are willing to help them self.) People buy a computer ( off the shelf ) load it with programs and expect it to do everything for them with out doing anything to learn whats go on. I do not know much, but I'm learning everyday. And this is one place the VERY good people here are helping me feed my bride and the two semi monsters we have. ( one is 46 the other is 30 ) Below is what my computer is doing while I'm here.
below is what Corel is doing while I'm playing here.
The last frame is were I put the screen shot for this post, two of the drawing are 100% scales of Trucks. I don't have any games (DARN) and my bride won't let me go to sites that nay be bad for me and the computer.
George
TheSign Guy said:
Hi George you are always very helpful Can I ask, How do you manage to show those shortcut symbol at the bottom of your screen like the Corel Capture- the Internet- firefox- and the rest.
Thanks
Hello Giulio; I'm using Windows 7, and you can send it to the bar or just drag and drop them. My Task bar is set up to hide until I move the mouse to it, every thing that is on that bar are the programs I use most and may not want to min. a program for a very short time to see something in a file. The antivirus and malware are not shown because they run all the time in the back ground with, ASRock ( mobo ) programs, you know the 5+5 thing. The Corel pic.'s come from hovering the mouse over the X7 icon. I'm using the X6 Capture at present because the X7 one doesn't remember the setting yet. ( It's not a big thing setting it up every but a pain.) It is more fun to compute than not to compute.
Hi George I can't get to position those shortcut like you have done, can it be done on any setup
Just click & hold then drag them to where you want them. I also put shortcuts to the folders I access daily on there too....real handy! Sorry George...don't want to hijack your thread buddy!