Lost Work

[A Wrigley]

Has anybody had this happen to them and if so is there a solution.
Xara photo & graphic designer 7 on Xp.

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.

[amoore]

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).

[A Wrigley]

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.

[handrawn]

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 ...

[A Wrigley]

Thanks alot for your suggestion
But I've found out what was causing the problem.
I've attached xara file explaining what went wrong.
Blend Test 1.xar

[handrawn]

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

[zaphodeist]

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...

[handrawn]

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

[A Wrigley]

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

[Sheff]

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.