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didierBert5

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I was working on a corel draw file of 159+ MB file when the power suddenly went off and I couldn't open the file when the power was back.
Maybe someone have come across a situation like this?
Thanks in advance.
 
Hi there...

Chances are the file became corrupt. You can try a cdr file repair tool..... https://www.repairtoolbox.com/coreldrawrepair.html or https://recoverytoolbox.com/coreldraw.html . Hope these can fix your files.

If you managed to save/overwrite the original file at some stage before the power-cut, there could be a chance all the contents are retrievable. But just be prepared for the worse that some parts could have been lost.

Another option is to open the auto-generated BACK-UP files saved within the folder where your file is located. But the contents may depend on the setting assigned to it and at what stage during work the backup was generated.

When outage occurs, CorelD sometimes manages to retain and create a BACKUP-of-Auto-Backup of the file you were working on. If your lucky and it did, try opening that as well.


edit.... there's one more I've only read about but never had a corrupted file to try it on...... RENAME THE FILE and open normally......
 
Not to sound harsh, but the issue is not "if" a power outage will occur, it's "when" it will happen again. If your personal tradeoff between spending some money and removing hassles like this allows it, buy yourself a cheap UPS. All you need is a few minutes run time to allow you to save your file and execute an orderly shutdown of your system. Around here you can pick up a brand new small unit for around $40 - $50 USD.

Tom M

PS - If you think that losing this one data file was annoying and causing you problems, just imagine what you would have to go through if the power goes off in the middle of your computer doing an update or writing to some important system file like the file allocation table on older OS's. In such cases you might have to reinstall the OS and everything else on your system.
 
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