Corrupt File

Does anyone know what's the best way to recover a corrupt .cdr file? I have one that is very large and I don't want to have to recreate all of it! Please help if you can!

Did Corel save a temp file? If so can you open? might not have to recreate much. Check user temp folder 

If it was some sort of overall system failure that caused the file to be
"corrupt" (and that very often can be the cause of a corrupt file), it
might be recoverable by, under a "command prompt" running

chkdsk x: /f

or, even better

chkdsk x: /r
where, of course, x: is the disk in question.

If the disk is in use it will offer to run it when the system is booted.

Be aware that there is a night and day difference between chkdsk under
the command prompt and the very superficial version under disk
management. Chkdsk under command prompt very often finds and (hopefully)
corrects massive disk errors that the version within disk management
said was perfect,

And, under some circumstances (damage to the "C:" disk itself), the
version under the repair console on the Windows install disk is even better.

I say the above because I have never had a file corrupt by itself on
saving in ANY program. I have had many instances (over 45 years,
especially on PCs) where a file was saved, corrupted, with the generous
help of bugs in the operating system, cable problems, controller
failures, overheated CPUs (fan failure), spindle failure on a disk, or
some other cause.

On PCs the described procedure can take a while (especially the /r
option can take hours--and is worth it!!!) Recovered several thousand
files which had been called "corrupt" about a month ago (spindle failure
in that case) and a similar number about 5 years ago (a Promise add-on
EIDE channel controller failure), and about ten years ago (Scandisk in
that era) when a CPU fan failed causing disk addresses to be miscalculated.




neanas wrote:
> Does anyone know what's the best way to recover a corrupt .cdr file? I
> have one that is very large and I don't want to have to recreate all of
> it! Please help if you can!
>
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What version of CorelDRAW do you use? I would recommend you contact the Corel technical support. Not sure if there is anything that can be done depending on how badly your file is corrupted.

Gérard 

i've lost a lot of files due to hard drive crashes which i was then able to retrieve using data recovery software.  However, upon retrieval, almost all of my .cdr files were corrupt and I've never been able to get them to open.

 

Thank god for back-up software :P  but I'll be interested to hear if someone has successfully retrieved a corrupted file.

You could run the converter macro and convert the file to CMX. You may lose part of the file, but you may recover a good part of it.

 If your version doesn't have the converter macro you could run the following commands from the DOS prompt

cdrconv.exe <filename.cdr> <filename.cmx> -cmx32

thanks, i'm going to give that a shot. i'll let you know how it works out.

I was save cdr file suddenly power failur. We another time open the file but file could not open

I hope anyone can help me. My file ready to enter the printing company (with an entire magazine in it) is corrupt. These are the references:

- File size 80Mb.
- It opens with only one white page, like empty (had 40 pages).
- My system is Windows Vista.
- My Corel is version 12.
- I don't have the backup file, neither the @@@.cdr file.

Help!

Thanks a lot!
Julian

FosterCoburn:

If you MUST do it, don't put all of the pages in a single file. Maybe break it up into 8-10 page segments.

I also strongly recommend to avoid saving documents with many pages in a single file. I have also suffered enough about such accidents. As stated by Foster, subdivide your job in small parts. You will have much less work by joining parts than to redo all again. And you will keep your hair ....

All,

Just to share the experience. While everybody was telling me to start all over again and forget about the file (I had the answers from this site waiting, two IT gurus calling other friends, searching in Google for some magical answer), someone thought about running the EasyRecovery soft.

We found a file called '@@@.cdr.temp' with the same size of the file I was working with. We renamed the file, took out the @'s and I opened a bottle of champagne when all pages came back.

It was the work of one entire month. Anyways, I will follow all recommendations given on this blog and partitionate the file.

Thank you so much!

Julian

julianginzo:

I hope anyone can help me. My file ready to enter the printing company (with an entire magazine in it) is corrupt. These are the references:

- File size 80Mb.
- It opens with only one white page, like empty (had 40 pages).
- My system is Windows Vista.
- My Corel is version 12.
- I don't have the backup file, neither the @@@.cdr file.

Help!

Thanks a lot!
Julian

Sounds like your file was created in a newer version other than 12. Maybe 13 or X4.

Can you verify this?

Thanks for the follow-up Julian. That's the sort of useful info that
needs to be passed on for the other poor souls who suffer from
file-be-gone. I hope some of the Corel gurus took note of the solution.

Steve
www.brutefish.com


julianginzo wrote:
> All,
>
> Just to share the experience. While everybody was telling me to start
> all over again and forget about the file (I had the answers from this
> site waiting, two IT gurus calling other friends, searching in Google
> for some magical answer), someone thought about running the EasyRecovery
> soft.
>
> We found a file called '@@@.cdr.temp' with the
> same size of the file I was working with. We renamed the file, took out
> the @'s and I opened a bottle of champagne when all pages came back.
>
> It was the work of one entire month. Anyways, I will follow all
> recommendations given on this blog and partitionate the file.
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> Julian
>
>
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> http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/606/79052.aspx#79052
>

hi

i am ahsan i have a problem with my file i am using cdr x3 in cdr x4 the file show the thumbnail but in x3 it not shows and also not open so what i should to do

when i open it ,it  shows the blank page

(sorry for my english its very low )