Lost Work

Has anybody had this happen to them and if so is there a solution.
Xara photo & graphic designer 7 on Xp.
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And it wouldn't let me load one up from Backup just kept saying "Failed to read XAR file(Failed to read record 4625 65535). Lost a few Hours Work.

You might try the Expand.xar utility, which you can download from this page: http://xaraxone.com/html/shareware.html.

You'll need to scroll down a ways. Perhaps the utility will help you recover your work.

BTW, the XaraXone is an excellent resource (thanks to the inimitable Gary Priester).

Yes tried it with no success.
It's just Happend again but i've managed to copy everything to xara photo & graphic desiger 6 and saved it.
looks like i'll be using version 6 for a while moving backwards what a shame!
Auto backups just poped up again saying it can not save it, Looks like i'll have to swirch 7 off.

a thought - you may [and it is only a may] have a problem on your hard drive where ver 7 is making the backups - worth doing a disc check ...

Thanks alot for your suggestion
But I've found out what was causing the problem.
I've attached xara file explaining what went wrong.
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ok good - is this just a version 7 problem?

EDit - re-reading your posts I think it is - so I'll move the thread to Dear Xara forum to bring it to their attention

Could try this:-

(based on step 5 in the supplied xar)

[1] Convert to editable shape
[2] Ungroup and remove elipse
[3] Re group
[4] Convert to editable shapes once again
[5] Saves fine here... :)

thanks John... [I don't have ver 7 to try this out :(]

Did you try it as it was and did you get the same error saving message?
No works in 6 ok.
It seems to be just this Ellipse with fill and shadow, tried it with normal shapes no fill or anything and it works fine. In 7
I'll try that "neodeist"
Thanks

I had this problem. It pretty much cost me a client. I realized that I can inadvertently create objects that prevent it from saving and then have to go through a process of elimination to find which object it is. At times it corrupted the file as it was saving and I didn't have a backup. It's a pretty serious issue.

Ah yes. I had this problem. I initially thought It was because I had live sync running but didn't ever get to the bottom of it.
Please report it to Xara support. I'm sure they would find it a help in tracking the bug down. - the more the merrier.

Yes I've sent every thing I've found to Xara

what if it's just UAC? If not that then corrupted configuration path?