I have a couple of 15-year-old CDR files that I need to edit/update, but CorelDraw 12 won't open them -- just gives me an error message saying that they were created with CorelDraw version 1 or 2, and it can't open them. Does anyone know a way I can update the format of these files so that I can edit them with recent versions of CorelDraw? Before you ask, I no longer have any version of CorelDraw older than version 12.
Although this is a really old thread it's quite fascinating and I wonder why it should have popped up this recently. I also wonder if changing the file extension from '.cdr' to '.cmx' might work? Unlikely, of course, but silly things like this do pique one's interest. I'm onside with this - I like puzzles. Given the fact that the windows operating system that lies under CorelDRAW is so far different to that of 13 years ago this could be a very fun project for a developer at Corel to solve, just to prove that they can. Doing something for the fun of it. Who'd have thunk of it. Imagine a little app that just makes old files readable. Very cute and a cool marketing device. It'll never make money but it may well make a lot of friends.
Kudos! Buy that man a drink!
LOL! I remember on the old message boards we used to have a thread called the 'Pub' where we used to just share nonsense over a drink or two :o)
Does that mean the hack of changing the .CDR prefix to .CMX actually works? The last few versions of CorelDRAW can't even open or import CDR files made prior to version 6.