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do you ever just want to kick your pc to death?
it wouldn’t be the first time, i’ve had two laptops terminally beaten to death through temper tantrums and freezing software or malfunctioning hardware.
this time i’m reluctantly letting the pc avoid a similar fate, i’m drawing a very detailed image (bit of a labour of love, an experiment for my own van) and i’m using a jpeg to draw over,
corel was being a litle reluctant but away i went, slowed up here and there but ok, at this point i realised i’d imported a full sized 10mp photo which is already about 5mb before corel bitmaps it and makes it ten zillion gb, still, i continue, then half way through it tells me temp drive is full, can’t auto save,
ok, copy and paste what i have into a new window and continue using a scaled down photo, nope, won’t paste 🙁 ok, continue, finsih, delete image and hopefully it’ll have enough memory to save etc.
ok, carry on, ignore the dialogue boxes that appear every five mins and i’m almost done, right hand cramping up something rotten due to all the note editing involved but carry on…. three segments to go and up comes another dialogue box, this time while i’m duplicating an object……
frozen bloody solid. i’ve opened corel again (original still frozen) and it’s fine, just the window i’m on, trouble is, over 90mins work and it’s not even saved the early stages of the artwork, let alone the hour of fiddly bits and i’ve not even begun to add shading etc,
still frozen with an hourglass icon up, gutted as now off to play rugby and will have to start all over again, my opposite number had better not get in my way today grrrrrr
ps, if anyone knows a way of saving this work, now would be a good time!! be back later, perhaps it will unfreeze? unlikely as it’s not processing aything now, just frozed 🙁
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too late… lost it, closed itself somehow 🙁
one very very lucky pc 👿
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Been there done that Hugh.
I do things like that in stages now. Create a folder. Save files as I go without the background photo. When done I combine the drawings and delete the individual files. Simples or maybe there is an easier more efficient way, would be interested to know. -
Hugh, I have got round problems like this by cropping the original file in to small sections and then editing each small section on their own. Found the computer handled it much better that way and I didn’t lose as much hair or throw as many tantrums :lol1:
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quote Martin:better that way and I didn’t lose as much hair
yep, best holding on to scarce resources 😀 😀
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we lost a file because of the Corel X5 last week, need we say more about that version….
Ctrl S is your friend.
I never tried X4 but X3 SP2 is extremely stable and we very rarely see the Temp error box now… older versions yes.
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Isn’t there an autosave function under "tools" ???
Default 20 min (should be max. 1 min.) -
auto save is one way but you can "link" a large file, so you work with a thumbnail for design, then only use the original at the print stage, it will be cropped or clipped to suit.
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Peter
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there is something like that in photoshop
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quote Peter Normington:auto save is one way but you can “link” a large file, so you work with a thumbnail for design, then only use the original at the print stage, it will be cropped or clipped to suit.
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Peter
If you didn’t save the job for an hour and a half, you would still loose all changes, Peter… 😀
You need to ctrl+s every minute or have an application to do it 4 u.(you could buy a mac and be s4fe all the time) (hot) no flaming intended, heh!
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Usually when corel crush the program is making a .tmp file somewhere on your hard disk. Do a search for *.tmp file and look after one with a lot of 000(zeros) in the name and with the date of creation. If you find it just rename it changing the .tmp in .cdr
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Catalin is correct, this sometimes work 🙂
but that is the temporary file that is being made while saving, so maybe incomplete.
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i’ll have a look for the tmp file but suspect it’s gone. i have it set on auto save at ten min intervals, i don’t like it too quick on the auto save as i’ve been caught out the other way, it’s saved changes and i’ve not been able to go back to the earlier version!
i rarely have probs like this, in this case the auto save wasn’t working, my plan to delete the photo at the end and just (hopefully) save the drawing was scuppered by the crash.
i tried to copy paste the drawings before the crash and put them into another page but, it wouldn’t let me do that either. the lesson here really is to cut losses early and stop wasting more time when you may potentially not be able to finish!
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