File Copy Error. Temp Drive or Hard Drive may be full... But it's not!
Daniel Liddicott
OK, maybe some luck person out there has had this problem.
Corel 7, Windows 98SE,
I have created a whopping 475Mb file which is to be output as litho print
quality films.
I have opened it to make some last minute client adjustments, and when I
come to save (or save as) after a couple of minutes I get the error:
File Copy Error. Temp Drive or Hard Drive may be full.
I know the hard drive is not full cos it is 80Gb with nearly 73 Gb's free.
So I can only assume that somewhere Corel has a limit set on it's maximum
Temp File size... am I right or is there another reason...
Either way, anyone got a solution for me?
Cheers, Dan
Graeme Standage
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>I have created a whopping 475Mb file which is to be output as litho print
>quality films.<
Is that size when the file is closed and where compression might be
being used in the advanced save settings?
If so potentially that file could be much, much larger.
>
>I have opened it to make some last minute client adjustments, and when I
>come to save (or save as) after a couple of minutes I get the error:
>
>File Copy Error. Temp Drive or Hard Drive may be full.<
Keep with doing 'save as' - at least that will keep it active and
open.
Are these changes likely to increase the file size from when it used
to save?
If the feeling is not, I'd say you need to clear out the temp files,
possibly defrag (in fact all the usual H/D maintenance things).
Re-boot. Make sure no other apps, anti virus software etc. (end task
to see) that are not absolutely necessary are running.
Then fire up Draw and try.
Although you have a lot of free space, is this divided up into various
drives? What about the space for temp files? What about the space for
the back-ups etc.?
If that is a 475meg file when closed and Corel compressed it could be
anything when open (remember not knowing content). Just pretend it is
in excess of a gig, you could then need a gig free for autobackup, a
gig free for back-up on save (if uncompressed) let alone all the temp
space for windows itself, CorelDraw, the open file and other temp
files. Might be an exageration from Corels memory requirements, but
said to 'give a feel'.
Might be that windows itself is getting in a twist rather than Corel.
I'd also be inclined to delete all but the default graphic and text
styles and turn off back-up on save and autobackup - this should
reduce temporary space and H/D space required.
Does this file contain many of Corels effects in native form?
Would this be a muilti-page file? If so I'd also be inclined to split
the file up into a number of smaller documents. As this is version 7
(for native file output) where there is not much in the way of
pagination etc. on output, if this a multi-page brochure, you will be
relying on bench planning to put the film together for plating so the
fact it is over more than one file will not matter so much.
Don't think the problem can be specificaly put down to draw in itself.
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Graeme
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Daniel Liddicott
OK, most of what you say should pose no difficulty in this situation i.e:
The disk drive has only one partition (80Gb) That drive is also assigned to
have the Corel Temp file, the other disk with windows has 2 Gb enmpty space
to use as swap... etc etc
I did find that splitting the file into 2 enabled it to save, but this is
not ideal...
Still it is a workaround and I will have to bear it in mind...
Thanks for your many suggestions and ideas, I will try some of the others
out over the ext little while and see how they go.
Dan
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Graeme Standage
>2 Gb enmpty space
>to use as swap... etc etc<
It is possible that is not enough. Some temp files will get written
there regardless of where you tell draw to put it's autobackup during
operation.
The number of undo levels will also effect amount of space required
along with what type of operations you have carried out.
Then there is the 'true' memory size of the file to still be
established......
Just to play, open the original corel file with memory/temp settings
as they were, work on it for a while and do a few operations - then
open windows explorer to see how many temp files there are around and
space being taken. Don't expect as much as when you had the problem,
but might be more than anticipated.
aamirk...@gmail.com
> OK, maybe some luck person out there has had this problem.
>
> I have created a whopping 475Mb file which is to be output as litho print
> quality films.
>
> I have opened it to make some last minute client adjustments, and when I
> come to save (or save as) after a couple of minutes I get the error:
>
> File Copy Error. Temp Drive or Hard Drive may be full.
>