spurious internal error

[ankhor]

Hi Ankhor,

Because there are missing objects in the file, I obviously can't see what those objects were /meant/ to be... So I can only tell you that they are at the back of the drawing (i.e. under everything else) and they were slightly bigger than the page size and that effects and shadows were applied to them.

Can you remember whether there was anything behind your boxes?

Phil

Unfortunetaly, no, it was an older picture I used,
so if it was in that I really can`t remember.

[dvector]

I've found that if you get the "spurious internal error" box popup:

1 DON'T click ok
2 DON'T try to save
3 DON'T close xara
4 Minimise everything by clicking the Show desktop button (in windows XP)
5 find your file, right hand click it and make a COPY
6 Now you can close XARA
7 The copied file will open just fine (it'll be the version that was last successfully saved)

hope this helps someone. Note: the above is of no use if the steps are not taken immediately the error box pops up.

best regards/ David
vectorvend.co.uk
vectorgraphic.co.uk

[ankhor]

Hi Ankhor,

Can you remember whether there was anything behind your boxes?

Phil

That is the problem, old drawing, so I couldn`t recall.
But I won`t lose sleep over it, but still, I would hate
it if it happened again.

But in this instance I really
couldn`t care less, did something for somebody,
e-mailed it, he never replied, so for me the project is closed
anyways.

[Nuno]

Great suggestion David! This just happened to me.
If this happens again, I'll remember that!

The tool given by Xara didn't worked
http://support.xara.com/index.php?_m...articleid=2494

It just said "StartExport failed", but no problem, it was just some experiments.
Next time I'll make a copy before clicking the ok button on the spurious internal error dialog box.