After I have downloaded about 20-30 embroidery files, I download them on a separate flash drive and do another backup on a rewritable disk. I lost mine once and a lot of them at that were freebies, because I wanted to try them out and had to start all over. Some of them I could never replace, because they were only available for a certain time. Most of the ones I purchase I still back up. Some companies will let you download again, but others don't.
I save all mine by category (animals, flowers, etc) and number them as I go. I do save a picture of them in a book ( also by category), so I can take the book and look them when I don't have my computer with me and am looking for a design. I also have the ERA program and use it to look at the designs, instead of on my embroidery machine. I have the Brother PE770 and the picture is mostly a blob, so I look at it on that prgram on my computer.
QUOTE=sewred;5134913]Do you all put your designs on discs or flash drives so that they don't take up as much room on the computer? I have over 4000 designs on the computer but not sure how to do this without losing any of them?[/QUOTE]