New Xara crash

[Erik Heyninck]

I wrote a text.
Applied a rectangular mould
Detached the mould
Clicked convert line to shape

Xara froze and then a message came, stating that my HDD was full and proposed to get rid of the unnecessary data.

THIS IS FRIGHTFUL. Instead of finding a new nugget, I nearly emptied my HDD.

Luckily I got out with Ctrl Alt Delete. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]

If you don't work against time, time often works for you.

[Erik Heyninck]

I wrote a text.
Applied a rectangular mould
Detached the mould
Clicked convert line to shape

Xara froze and then a message came, stating that my HDD was full and proposed to get rid of the unnecessary data.

THIS IS FRIGHTFUL. Instead of finding a new nugget, I nearly emptied my HDD.

Luckily I got out with Ctrl Alt Delete. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]

If you don't work against time, time often works for you.

[danifou]

I didn't get the message but Xara froze and also had to ctrl-alt-delete to get out of that jam...

[Mark Goodall]

Eric

As regards the message after the freeze, Xara X has no such behaviour, this must be the system or utility software which checks for low virtual memory etc and attempts to remedy it.

Mark Goodall
Xara Ltd

[Erik Heyninck]

Of course XaraX can't produce this message by itself. Still, it was there and I still have 1?5 GB free on drive C:\.

The fact remains that unfortunately I'm not the only one that has had a freeze and a forced CtrlAltDel.

This doesn't hinder normal workflow of course (I think), but it is in any case a blocked road and it's best to warn the others not to take it.

If you don't work against time, time often works for you.

[jens g.r. benthien]

Eric,

looooong time ago I posted several message saying that professionals should use a professional OS - either Win NT 4 or W2K Pro.

It appears you are one of the pros who does not listen :-))

Ask Klaus - he just switched to W2K Pro and is glad he did this step to ultimate stability, reliability and speed.

<sigh>
jens

[Klaus Nordby]

I can indeed confirm that I switched from Win98 to W2K Professional about a month ago, and it's a great OS indeed! It's Windows for - well, for Professionals. I only wish I had switched a year ago, it would have saved me tons of time and troubles. The about $200 its costs is *nothing* compared to what it will save any - well, Professional.


K

[Michael]

As Fujitsu just introduced a 100Gb hard disk, it seems quite illogical to me that someone would have 175 GB free on it's C drive ... If that is 175 Mb, I'd say it would explain a lot. So please, check you're free space on the hard drive ...

[Erik Heyninck]

Instead of , I inadvertedly wrote a ? as these are on the same button, and I was in Shift for the numbers. So it is 1,5GB on C.

Jens, I'll repeat myself at the risk of being crude: I have no problems with my 98SE and no crashes whatever since februari and this is probably due to the new detonator drivers from NVIDIA, the freeze was Xara's and after ctrlAltDel I could re-open X and continue working asthere was NO Win problem at all, and we'll see how good 2000 is when XP comes on the market. As usual, this will be THE upgrade that doesn't crash anymore etc. Like they said one thousand times before.

And no, I see no reason to change my OS right now. You were right with the TIFF, but the best advice I got came from Klaus when he mentioned the Lasersoft software for my scanner.

Win98 behaves like it should and Xara must run under WIN, which it does. The strenght of Win2000 is that you have to introduce everything manually and that it is slower on installing etc. Perhaps it is also Xara's speed that causes some trouble from time to time? Who's perfect?

If you don't work against time, time often works for you.

[jens g.r. benthien]

Erik,

it's your precious time you are wasting. And no, the new detonator driver for nVidia is perfect. www.reactorcritical.com has the best ones.

BTW, we purchased a new Athlon monster with ME pre-installed. I installed several apps and tested the OS: it crashed so many times, that I formatted the hard drives, went to a store, grabbed a w2k pro US edition, installed it, and voila, the SAME apps that crashed with ME are running smooth as silk.

And please don't compare W2K Pro with Win XP - XP is a real drag, a never ending nightmare. Something for gamers, but not for professionals. If MS shouldn't include options to turn off those nobrainer gimmick features, I will format all drives of all my machines and switch to LINUX. Promised. Would be a good bet for XARA to have a LINUX version ready in 6 months - they could make more profits with it then ever before, because there is NOTHING comparable in the LINUX world.

Hello Xara Team, are you listening?? If so, this your chance to repeat the success of the Acorn times 10 fold.

jens