Embroidery Machines Lets Chat & Have Fun
#3701
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 442
Thanks, everyone. I will have to check out these beading suggestions.
#3702
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 9,589
I've asked to an embroidery machine for Christmas. Although I"m not sure where I'll put it in my crowded sewing room. My husband told me to go look at them so that's on the to-do list. I can hardly wait to scope out what is available.
#3703
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 442
Patrice, so exciting.... half of the fun is shopping for one and see all that is out there. But the best half is having one !
#3704
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 3,497
Patrice best of luck on your journey!!! Sew fun!!!
#3705
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 1,231
A cautionary tale
Long story short, I got my first embroidery machine over 20 years ago, and have hundreds, if not thousands of designs. I went to look on one of my USB flash drives for an old design, and it wouldn't open. Found out that the average lifespan of a USB flashdrive is 10 years!! Less if you write over them several times...The lifespan of a CD is 100 years +++.....so...been transferring everything to cd's over the last few days. What a pain. This way, I'll have them, and if I need them I can put them on a flash drive in a matter of seconds..but I'll always have a backup. I found a free program that pulled data off of corrupted cd's and flash drives...it worked on most of my bad flash drives, but I did lose a bunch of designs.
Moral of the story..don't trust your flashdrives!!!!!!!!!!
Moral of the story..don't trust your flashdrives!!!!!!!!!!
#3706
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Victorian Sweatshop Forum
Posts: 4,096
Most dealers will tell you not to store your designs on flash drives as they can(and will) fail, just like hard drives do. A flash drive is only meant to be a temporary bridge between your computer and your machine. I copy a design from the computer to the flash drive, I never move the original designs to the flash drive. I keep my designs in files on my computer but also have back ups just in case. I also keep the emails from when I buy designs that have the zip files in them. That way if I lose something I can go back and open the original from the email if I have to.
Cari
Cari
#3707
Most dealers will tell you not to store your designs on flash drives as they can(and will) fail, just like hard drives do. A flash drive is only meant to be a temporary bridge between your computer and your machine. I copy a design from the computer to the flash drive, I never move the original designs to the flash drive. I keep my designs in files on my computer but also have back ups just in case. I also keep the emails from when I buy designs that have the zip files in them. That way if I lose something I can go back and open the original from the email if I have to.
Cari
Cari
#3708
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: ND
Posts: 2,817
Thanks for the information on flash drives--I need to get some CDs and start putting designs over to them. One problem I do see is newer computers do not have CD drives so you would need an attachment.
Last edited by sJens; 10-10-2017 at 06:53 AM.
#3709
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Victorian Sweatshop Forum
Posts: 4,096
Cari
#3710
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Snowy Minnesota
Posts: 1,378
Ah, only about $30? Cool!
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