June 2018: Online Content Catalog Update

[Karateed]

Until the 14th of August, you are able and allowed to upgrade your Xara Desktop application to v15.1. You are also allowed to use Download All for all of the Online Content Catalogue to store on your computer. You re also allowed to install a second version on another machine. I suggest you do all three. After 14th August, you will not be able to do any of them without paying for an upgrade. If you chose not to upgrade, all of these options go away but you can still use what you have installed and downloaded.

Do read https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ting-Explained carefully.

Acorn

So, I haven't updated since ProX11. I updated yesterday, well I guess upgraded and was genuinely surprised that the content didn't download after the upgrade. Is there any way a person can still get the content download other than downloading it piecemeal from online? And why did this restriction happen? It seems to me to be self defeating to not allow people to download the content regardless of when they've upgraded. It smacks a lot of the way other software companies are going which in my opinion isn't a good way for Xara to go to keep it friendly. I will admit I haven't been following the threads much lately but a lot has been happening in my life so life if penalizing me for not being on here all the time? That truly sucks.

[Acorn]

So, I haven't updated since ProX11. I updated yesterday, well I guess upgraded and was genuinely surprised that the content didn't download after the upgrade. Is there any way a person can still get the content download other than downloading it piecemeal from online? And why did this restriction happen? It seems to me to be self defeating to not allow people to download the content regardless of when they've upgraded. It smacks a lot of the way other software companies are going which in my opinion isn't a good way for Xara to go to keep it friendly. I will admit I haven't been following the threads much lately but a lot has been happening in my life so life if penalizing me for not being on here all the time? That truly sucks.

Ed, if you go on a treasure hunt, you will find https://help.xara.com/article/185-ho...gner-templates.

Your starting position is Help > More Xara [program name] > Support pages > Xara Desktop: Enter button - simply so far.
In essence, right-click on each of the top folders in the Local dsigns gallery and pick Download All. You might end up with 2.3Gb of data. Xara then has a tendency to obsolete templates without notice, or in error, and things disappear. I copy off to separate media.

Some background you will need to at least know about: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...186#post592186.

Acorn

[Karateed]

Thanks very much Acorn,

Funny, your name being Acorn and I'm heavily into Acorn computers from the UK....... in fact run a gaming site in the UK even though I'm in Canada (west coast)

[Acorn]

Thanks very much Acorn, Funny, your name being Acorn and I'm heavily into Acorn computers from the UK....... in fact run a gaming site in the UK even though I'm in Canada (west coast)

I chose Acorn for that reason. Brought up on Atom, Proton & Electron, taught BBC Basic, coded in ARM, small homage, in its way.

Acorn

[Karateed]

So, are you also on the *. site and the Acorn FB page?