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12-26-2012, 05:22 PM

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mermaid

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go to http://www.spoolsstash.com/ and d/l the free file organizer. Save it to MY Documents. Open to find many folders already named for storing your designs (tho you can change the names)
I download designs from the internet & they go into the downloads folder on My Docs page. I open the folder, then open or unzip what I've downloaded. Then I either R click & choose ''send to My Documents, OR I click on "move" at the left side of the page. I then choose My Docs from the list. Then I go back to My Docs and sort the designs into the folders inside the organizer. If I want to use one or two or 3, I highlite the designs, again on the left of the page, I choose "COPY" and a window opens for me to choose where to send it or them. If I have a flash drive plugged in, it will show in that window as a certain drive (you might have to be watching in "MY COMPUTOR when you plug it in to know which drive your memory stick is in (I have several)---choose your flash drive ,then again click "copy"--this time at the bottom of the window. If you're sending the designs directly to the machine instead of using the flash drive, then you should have a little sewing machine icon in the task bar (or in My Computer page) and you would just ''copy'' to that. Now I have Windows XP, so this is how I do it. I find it works for me better to keep everything on my documents page instead of cluttering my desktop.
You will enjoy the design organizer. When you've stored the various designs by category, then you can close the main folder again. And don't forget--you MUST unzip and open folders before copying to the flash drive...the machine cannot read them otherwise. And be sure the designs are the correct format for your machine or they won't show up..nor will they if the size is larger than your hoop can handle. There are free softwares for changing format..There is a free software for thumbnail viewer at http://www.sharewareconnection.com/p...-generator.htm and MY EDITOR is another that shows the image, resizes, reformats, splits/erases, digitizes from clipart, etc etc.

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