Latest questions about "saving issues"

I can't recover a saved project. The pictures in my folder are just icons that will not load. I'm making vinyl cuts for coffee mugs and need to recover the first one to use on the next ones.

I have just started my trial of CurveWorks under CorelDraw 12.

I cannot save my ExpressIt label and then re-open it. It does not add the .exp extension to filename unless I type it in and still says that it cannot load file.