really really disappointed in Pro 5 demo

**jonnycross** · 25 August 2009, 04:45 PM

I just spent a week of my spare time doing a graphic using Xara Xtreme 5 demo
and I have lost it due to the out of memory bug.
I tried the Xpandxar but to no avail. I never came across this in version 4 ( did it exist then or is it something new to 5)
I am attaching the file here hoping that someone who knows what their doing can assist.peg.xar
TIA Jon

**Soquili** · 25 August 2009, 04:54 PM

Jon it looks like that file is Xtremely corrupt. Not even the embedded gif is intact.

**gwpriester** · 25 August 2009, 09:37 PM

Ack! Hate that.

If you had downloaded and installed XaReg Bill and Steve's excellent Free utility, you could have set Xtreme to create a backup (BAK) copy of your file every time you saved it.

My theory, proved dozens of times by me personally, is the longer you go without saving your work, the greater your chances of losing your work with a program crash.

**jonnycross** · 26 August 2009, 04:57 AM

Thanks guys but the program was saved on a regulaur basis,I do so every time I complete a layer (habit).
the gif is still there horse002.bmp
I will just have to start again

Downed Xareg installing it now
My thanks to Bill and Steve for the Utiity
regards Jon

**GerryI** · 26 August 2009, 10:57 AM

This is a bit strange. I've never seen a file corrupted in that particular way before. The only thing wrong with the file is that the record length of the preview bitmap is not correctly set. Once I corrected this by manually locating the end of the GIF and calculating the length, the file loads correctly.

Hope this helps and you haven't spent too long redrawing it...

Gerry