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- ADDITIONAL NOTES ON CORELMOSAIC
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- Please note the following two additional points not covered in the
- online document for MOSAIC:
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- 1) When you open a directory containing older CorelDRAW files or
- certain other files, you may notice that the thumbnail image onscreen
- only displays a patterned gray background overlain by a circle with
- a strike through it. This simply indicates that the thumbnail for
- that file doesn't exist or can not be used for display purposes.
- Importing the file into CorelDRAW 3.0 and saving it will create a
- header that can be displayed by MOSAIC.
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- 2) Whenever you update a library file in MOSAIC, the program makes
- copies of your original library files in your TEMP drive and then uses
- these copies for the updates you request. Once the updates are complete,
- the files in the TEMP drive overwrite your original library files to
- complete the process. If an error (e.g. bad disk sector) should occur
- in this final stage, your original library files may only be partially
- overwritten and thereby rendered useless. This is rare, but it can happen.
- If it does, the updated copies of your library files that exist in the
- TEMP drive are perfectly useable and will have the same names as
- the originals. You can use these. Note however that if you're using
- a RAM drive as your TEMP drive, those copies will disappear when you
- power your computer off or if you're forced to reboot. If you are
- building large libraries, this is a good reason not to use RAM for
- your TEMP drive. Instead, assign it a directory on one of your
- physical drives that has at least several megabytes of free space
- available. You'll also have to change the appropriate entry in
- your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to let your system know exactly where your
- TEMP drive is.
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- As a general rule of thumb, whenever you build a library, you should
- have free space available on your TEMP drive equal to at least 50%
- of the file size of all the CDR files you intend to put into that
- library. If you're adding to an existing library, the free space
- should equal the size of the existing library plus 50% of the
- file size of all the CDR files you intend to add to it.
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